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Elon Musk said his satellite-internet system Starlink would seek an exception to sanctions to make its service available in Iran, an apparent attempt to boost access to outside information in the country as protests spread. Mr. Musk, founder of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, made the proposal on Twitter in response to a request from Erfan Kasraie, who describes himself as a Persian-language journalist…

These deactivations have enraged French unions, which believe Uber Eats is deactivating accounts as growth stalls. “The decision took place without workers being notified,” says Fabian Tosolini, a delegate of the Independents Unions, which represents self-employed workers in France but is not involved in today’s protest. “They woke up and found they were not able to connect to the app. Their revenue just stopped.”This was also the experience of Bassekou Cissoko, whose Uber Eats account was deactivated on July 28, 2022.…

via Warner Bros. Plenty of movies spark backlash and fierce criticism, but a tear-jerking romantic drama that captured the hearts and minds of audiences around the world on its way to becoming a smash hit success story that hauled in $208 million at the box office on a $20 million budget doesn’t sound like one of them. And yet, the opposition to 2016’s Me Before You was fierce. Emilia Clarke stars as Lou, who takes a job as caregiver for Sam Claflin’s Will, a wealthy banker who was left tetraplegic in the…

This sign reads “LUMA go to hell” and depicts the energy authority as a vampire bat sucking the blood out of Puerto Rico. August 25, 2022. Photo: Carlos Berríos PolancoA few hundred protestors gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico for several evenings last week to voice their anger at LUMA, the company responsible for electricity on the island. They crowded the streets of the city near the island’s capitol building, chanting to the rhythm of drums and the banging of pots and pans, yelling “fuera LUMA!” Or “LUMA, get…

Ariel Koren, a Google employee who became a face of worker protests against the company’s contract with the Israeli government, announced her resignation yesterday. The Jewish marketing manager says she faced retaliation from management and some colleagues for expressing pro-Palestinian views within the company. In October she joined other Google and Amazon employees in public opposition to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract for Google and Amazon to provide cloud computing to Israel, including its defense ministry.…

Discontent started to ripple through Amazon’s largest UK warehouse as soon as details of a bump in hourly pay flashed onto screens around the facility on Wednesday. Rumors at the Tilbury distribution center in southeast England had anticipated a raise of £1 ($1.20) per hour, for many workers an increase of 9 percent. Instead, the screens displayed a rise of just 35 pence (or 43 cents), about 3 percent.“People were in shock,” said one employee at the Tilbury warehouse, who is working with the nonprofit Foxglove Legal,…

Johnny Depp Fans Demands Amber Heard’s Removal From Aquaman 2 Wearing Mera Costume (Pic Credit: Movie Still, Twitte/Manuel de la Fuenter) Amber Heard and Johnny Depp continue to battle their legal war. The verdict of the defamation trial was pronounced last month and both parties were ordered to pay damages with respect to their wrongdoings. Overall, it was the Pirates Of The Caribbean star who won the case and is set to receive a sum of $10.35 million from his ex-wife. But they’ve both appealed the…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is digging in against protesters who this week shut down most operations at the Port of Oakland, saying truckers “should focus on supporting this transition” to a new employment law, even as shippers warned the impasse was hurting their businesses.Mr. Newsom’s administration indicated Thursday it wouldn’t bow to the protesters’ demands to pause the implementation of the new state law, known as AB5, that will make it harder for tens of thousands of independent…

Freight operators in Oakland, Calif., are bracing for continued protests by truckers that have blocked operations this week at the West Coast’s third-busiest container port, adding new disruptions to already-strained U.S. supply chains. Truck drivers have stopped vehicles from entering Port of Oakland container terminals, effectively halting all but a trickle of business in a protest over a California law that would toughen restrictions on the use of independent drivers. …

Uber’s co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick looks out at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on May 10, 2019 in New York City.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)Uber spent at least half a decade breaking laws and engaging in a coordinated influence campaign to force itself into countries with tight transportation regulations, according to explosive new report by the Guardian based on tens of thousands of Uber’s internal documents that were leaked to the newsoutlet.The 124,000 files, which cover 2013 to…