If you’re a recent college graduate or headed into your senior year of school and wondering where your generation is looking for work, here’s a tip: try IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Amazon, Tesla and Deloitte. Those firms receive more entry-level job applications from college students than any other companies. That’s according to a new annual […]

Paul Tweed made his name suing news organizations like CNN, Forbes and The National Enquirer on behalf of Hollywood movie stars, winning high-profile cases for celebrities like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake by hopscotching among Belfast, London and Dublin to take advantage of their favorable defamation or privacy laws. So it was telling last year […]

The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy activists are asking Amazon to stop marketing a powerful facial recognition tool to police, saying law enforcement agencies could use the technology to “easily build a system to automate the identification and tracking of anyone.” The tool, called Rekognition, is already being used by at least one […]

Amazon bans customers who return too many products, according to The Wall Street Journal. This is a practice that’s used by traditional retailers, but Amazon shouldn’t act like its brick-and-mortar competitors. Amazon customers speaking to the Journal described being banned for returning all sorts of products, from clothing to cellphones. Retailers like Best Buy use […]

Streaming numbers for R. Kelly have remained intact a week after Spotify announced it had removed the R&B singer’s music from its playlists, citing its new policy on hate content and hateful conduct. Spotify made the bold declaration on May 10, but R. Kelly’s streaming numbers are relatively the same with some small growth: Before […]

One of Facebook‘s most senior executives, Naomi Gleit, believes so deeply in the social media firm and her colleagues that she’d agree to “cleaning the toilets” if asked, Gleit told Recode in an interview. “I would kind of do anything with them,” Gleit told the news site. “If they told me … to work on […]

Sen. Marco Rubio said Tuesday he would push for “veto-proof congressional action” to check the Trump administration’s reported deal to save Chinese telecommunications company ZTE. Washington and Beijing have discussed the framework of a deal for the U.S. to lift the ban on American companies selling goods to the firm in favor of possible management […]

BP has invested $20 million in Israel’s StoreDot, a start-up that claims its batteries can charge electrics cars in five minutes. The oil giant said Tuesday that its venture capital arm BP Ventures was investing in the Tel Aviv-based firm as it looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its operations. “Ultra-fast charging is at […]

A former software engineer at Uber Technologies filed a lawsuit on Monday against the ride-hailing service on Monday, claiming she was subjected to years of sexual harassment there and subjected to retaliation for complaining about it. The lawsuit by Ingrid Avendano provides an early test of Uber’s new policy allowing people claiming sexual harassment and […]

Self-driving cars are scaring more Americans than they used to. More people now say they would not ride in a fully autonomous car than those surveyed in late 2017, according to AAA. Some 73 percent of U.S. drivers surveyed by AAA said they would be afraid to ride in a self-driving vehicle, a 10 percent […]