Morgan Meaker

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A Tale of Two Nuclear Plants Reveals Europe's Energy Divide

A forest of wind turbines rises out of the fields on both sides of the highway running east out of Vienna. But at the border with Slovakia, which stretches between Austria and...

I Found the Perfect Replacement for Twitter. It’s LinkedIn

I am a millennial. That means the majority of my friends either have babies or jobs where they spend most of their day at a computer. These are not lives that translate...

Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team

Removing child exploitation is “priority #1”, Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week. But, at the same time, following widespread layoffs and resignations, just one staff member remains on...

Twitter Is on a Collision Course With Europe

From the outside, it might not look like much has changed in the repurposed 1970s office block that serves as Twitter’s European headquarters. But inside, the mood has soured.Just like in the...

Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can't Do Anything About It

Pimeyes is technically different from Clearview because it does not store faces in a database, but instead searches the internet for faces when a user uploads a picture, according to privacy experts. The...

Uber Squeezed Europe’s Taxi Drivers. Now It Wants to Hire Them

Drivers like Hubert might be skeptical of Uber’s deals, but within some unions there is real hostility toward the company. “We don’t expect anything from Uber. It is a predatory multinational that...

The Gig Law Causing Chaos in California Strip Clubs

Many clubs decided to restructure the way dancers are paid after AB 5 was introduced in 2019, taking larger cuts of the money workers earned through private dances. Dancers say that even...

The Hottest Startups in Paris

It feels fitting that Paris’ largest startup campus is 300 meters long—the same size as the Eiffel Tower. Built in an old freight train station, Station F is home to 1,000 early...

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