India has become the terrifying new epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. New cases have topped 300,000 daily and are still rising; the official death toll of over 2,000 per day is almost certainly an underestimate. Every hour brings horrifying new stories of mass cremations, overwhelmed testing centers, people dying while waiting for a hospital bed. The country desperately needs help ...

What some have called the mobile advertising Armageddon is finally upon us. Starting on Monday, Apple Inc will put in place new privacy protocols that will make it much harder for apps to gather user data for personalising digital ads. The change will have vast ramifications for how the app economy works and alter the dynamics of power among the ...

Workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, voted by a margin of more than two to one not to join a union. It’s a heavy blow for the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, for the wider labour movement, and for the many politicians and activists who wanted the union’s push to succeed. But the workers have spoken — and ...