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Tweet The California State Assembly is one step closer to passing a new bill which will make it legally obligatory for companies in the gig economy to recognize their workers as employees. Read more… Neowin

Tweet 5G networks, with their dramatic advances in transmission speed, latency, capacity, energy efficiency and connection densities, promise to bring about a smarter and more connected world. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The Cupertino giant today announced it will be making a contribution of $ 350 billion to the U.S. economy over the next five years, creating 20,000 jobs and pay $ 38 billion in taxes to repatriate Read more… Neowin

Tweet A few news stories make it clear that the venerable automobile industry is going to wind up sliced, diced, and consumed by the new economics and technologies of the web, and in short order. Ford has announced that it’s working with Amazon to integrate the Alexa virtual assistant service that runs on the Echo smart speaker and Fire TV devices, so that we can turn the on the lights in our…

Tweet The real problem for the National Security Agency’s data-collection programs might not be citizen outrage, but something far more powerful — corporate outrage. We have an economy increasingly dependent on web and mobile services (broadly defined as “the cloud”), and it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to put up barriers or conditions on using them. For consumers, it’s bad for privacy. For companies that sell cloud services,…