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YouTube Music contractors in the Austin area who voted to unionize are accusing their employers of abusing return-to-office policies to stifle labor organizers. The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that YouTube parent Alphabet and staffing firm Cognizant are using an abrupt return-to-office move, due in February, to punish remote workers, many of whom are reportedly pro-union. Some also live outside Austin. Managers have also been sending work to…

Apple’s Find My technology makes stealing an iPhone difficult, as tech-savvy thieves might be wary about stealing devices that users can track online. But the iPhone remains a highly coveted device and a primary target. That’s why it’s important to change a key iPhone Control Center setting to prevent thieves from holding onto your device, in addition to having Find My active at all times and protecting your device with a password and biometrics. Specifically, you need to make it impossible for attackers to…

In the past two decades, the time between deadly international disease outbreaks has shortened, and the human and economic cost of these outbreaks has grown. In 2002, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) led to 800 deaths and US$40 billion in economic losses. The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa caused more than 11,000 deaths and $53 billion in economic and social losses. In early 2020, COVID-19 spread rapidly worldwide, and is estimated to have contributed to more than 17 million deaths, with economic losses…

With the specter of recession looming over the global economy, reviving flagging growth will be near the top of the agenda at a summit for the leaders of the Group of 20 advanced and developing economies.The problem: Discord among G-20 members is a big reason for the slowdown. Europe may already be slipping into recession as Russia throttles its energy supplies in retaliation for Western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Inflation spurred by that conflict is squeezing consumers and businesses…

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A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 378, Issue 6618.Download PDF Des Moines, Iowa—At 4:30 a.m. on 16 June, the last morning of the National Swine Registry’s Exposition, a weeklong hog show at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Andrew Bowman and his team began winding through massive, open-air barns housing some 2000 pigs. Large fans blew across the pens to cool the pigs and ease the pungent ammonia stench of urine and feces. But Bowman,…

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)New York’s Attorney General Letitia James wants to criminalize online homicide videos and see revisions to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to hold tech platforms liable for propagating violent livestreams.James hopes those proposals, which would almost certainly face legal scrutiny, could potentially help prevent a repeat of the racially motivated Buffalo, New York supermarket shooting that left 10 people dead. Rather than a one off case of evil, James said the Buffalo…

Amazon’s Logo. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon plans to limit automatic ebook returns to cases where people have read no more than 10 percent of the book, according to the Authors Guild. The change, which follows complaints that Kindle buyers were returning titles they’d fully read to get a refund, is expected to take place by the end of the year. The Authors Guild says it reached the deal after negotiating with Amazon executives. Individual authors raised concerns about an uptick…

Unemployment, underemployment, overqualification and working outside nominated occupation, by nominated occupation. Note: Numbers in () indicate sample size. Display limited to occupations with at least 30 visa holders. Occupations sorted in sample size order. Source: GSM Survey. Credit: International Migration (2022). DOI: 10.1111/imig.13030 New research by workforce experts at Flinders University and Charles Darwin…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Failing to properly plan a resilient network of charging stations could be an Achilles' heel that undermines efforts to encourage the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles, researchers behind a new study have said. Their conclusion comes after they examined the effects of shocks—sudden unanticipated events—on electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructures.…