Report: Taken for a Ride: Inside Uber’s New Race to the Bottom
Polly Smythe
Drivers claim Trip Radar, Uber’s latest 'flexible' work feature is dangerous and discriminatory. Polly Smythe reports.
Tag: apps
ACFM: Trip 25: Games
Have games taken over our inner and outer lives? The ACFM gang throw the dice to find out, with music from Super Mario and The Who.
Feature: Who Ya Gonna Call? A Guide To Ghosting
Charlotte Bayes
Charlotte Bayes, your friendly neighbourhood relationship expert, advises how to be a kinder dater.
The Burner: The Burner Episode #217: a Tech Exit to Covid-19?
James Butler asks: what would a tech-led exit from lockdown look like? And James Meadway tells us what we should make of the OBR’s ‘bouncing ball’ scenario on the economic shock.
#FuckUber: 8 Reasons Why Uber is Bad for All of Us
Sam Hind
Since its inception, Silicon Valley 'ride sharing' start-up Uber has drawn criticism and anger from taxi drivers wherever it has been launched. While it is undoubtedly undermining cabbies, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
4 Things the ‘Socialist’ App Tells Us About Capitalist Appropriation
Adam Stoneman
Socialist. What comes to mind? Marx and Engels? The Soviet bloc? Owen Jones? Those bloody paper sellers at every demo? Or a new app helping you make and share lists of 'the things you love'? The latest in a long line of associations with the S-word might make you sigh with mild irritation, but here are the things we can learn from the swanky new socialite app.