Technology readings

Several progressive groups are mounting an ad campaign to persuade the US Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook, according to Axios. The message: The ads will carry messages like: “Mark Zuckerberg has a scary amount of power. We need to take it back.” The surgery: The groups, which include Demand Progress and the Open…

Countries need to bridge the achievement gap—while teaching kids skills that go way beyond math and reading.

If you work on your feet, you know.

Mark Zuckerberg to Apologize Again, This Time to European Parliament - The New York Times

Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk. - The New York Times

"The stakes are more intense than ever."

Apple Inc. manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has started mass production of next-generation processors for new iPhones launching later this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Chinese bike-sharing startup Mobike, which was recently acquired in a $3 billion deal, was already present in India. The company went on an aggressive global expansion spree in 2017; India wasn’t on the radar then, but that’ll soon be rectified …

Because there aren’t enough electric scooters on the roads, Lyft is looking into launching its own fleet of electric scooters in San Francisco, The Information reports. Lyft would join the likes of Spin, Bird and Lime — the three startups that deployed their scooters in San Francisco, w…

Employees at Google are protesting a Pentagon contract. But there are few signs of unrest over CIA deals at Amazon and Microsoft.

Urban planners can ditch those outdated layouts and transform the city into a joyful mess of throughways and byways optimized not for cars but for people.

Many firms have the required consent already; others don’t have consent to send a request

With new tools and political policies now in place to support them, there could be a boom in employee-owned business ahead as baby boomers retire and sell their companies to their workers.

There are a number of obstacles to overcome, but Americans are all too familiar with the amount of effort being put towards normalizing self-driving cars.

The social credit system is made up of blacklists punishing citizens for bad behavior by preventing people from traveling, getting loans or jobs, or staying in hotels, and also by limiting internet access. A national system that scores citizens has been compared to "Black Mirror."

While America dawdles and bickers, China is thinking long-term.