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California passes bill that threatens Uber and Lyft’s business model
Enlarge / California Governor Gavin Newsom. (credit: Ray Chavez/The Mercury News via Getty Images)
Both houses of California’s legislature have passed sweeping legislation requiring businesses to treat more of their workers as employees rather than independent contractors. As a result,
Uber lays off another 435 people to stem big losses
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Uber has laid off 435 people in engineering and product roles, the company’s latest effort to stem growing losses. Uber laid off around 400 people in its marketing department in July.
Elon Musk throws down with Porsche, sends a Model S to the Nürburgring
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As part of Porsche’s build-up to Wednesday’s launch of the Taycan electric car, it took a track-prepped prototype to Germany’s famous Nürburgring Nordschleife. This 12.9-mile (20.8km) track, built in the 1920s as
Feds scold Tesla for slow response on driver monitoring
Enlarge / A Tesla Model S. (credit: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The National Transportation Safety Board, a federal agency tasked with investigating transportation crashes, published a preliminary report Tuesday about a January 2018 crash in Culver City, California.
