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Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts certify the nation’s first ride-hailing union

Drivers for ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft in Massachusetts became the first in the nation Tuesday to certify a union, marking a milestone in the growing effort to organize gig-economy workers amid ongoing concerns over pay, expenses, and working conditions. The victory could provide a...

BBlizine Admin·May 26, 2026·0 views

Digital Business9 min

Why are big AI companies embedding engineers with customers, and what does that mean?

The promise of frontier AI has always sounded like a utility: abundant intelligence, available on demand, as easy to access as electricity, water, or cloud computing. The metaphor is powerful, and for good reason. Utilities scale because they abstract complexity away. You don’t need an engineer...

BBlizine Admin·May 26, 2026·0 views

Digital Business5 min

How this wearable AI technology is helping NBA, NHL and athletes everywhere prevent injuries

Gabriel Landeskog wears the small sensors in the insoles of his skates for practices and games. He wears them in his sneakers when he’s training and, maybe most handy of all, while taking his dog for a walk.Those spins around the block and ice record all of his biomechanical measurements. The...

BBlizine Admin·May 26, 2026·0 views

Digital Business7 min

Screens are saturating U.S. classrooms, fueling a backlash on school-issued devices

Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Anna Soffer, a Los Angeles middle school teacher, remembers it well: “The idea was that technology is the future, so we need to put tech in every child’s hands.”Now, the conversation has...

BBlizine Admin·May 26, 2026·0 views

Digital Business11 min

SpaceX’s $2 trillion reality check

SpaceX’s upcoming IPO promises to be not only a watershed for the space industry, but a landmark in financial markets. The company—which includes the world’s leading space-launch business, its largest satellite broadband provider, and a money-burning AI division—aims to raise about $75 billion, at...

BBlizine Admin·May 26, 2026·0 views

Digital Business6 min

These AI bots want to help fans navigate World Cup host cities

When soccer fans head to the FIFA World Cup starting in June, they’ll have a new option for finding things to do, places to stay, and ways to get around in various host cities: artificial intelligence.  Some visitors will likely turn to general-purpose AI tools like...

BBlizine Admin·May 26, 2026·0 views

Digital Business7 min

Uber’s Andrew Macdonald on what America’s economy looks like from the driver’s seat

Few companies are a stronger barometer of the American economy today than Uber, and few executives have a clearer view of what’s coming than its president and COO, Andrew Macdonald. He shares what Uber’s real-time data reveals about consumer behavior amid surging gas prices, and...

BBlizine Admin·May 26, 2026·0 views

Digital Business5 min

Glaze turns AI prompts into custom Mac apps in minutes

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Glaze is a new Mac app for making your own software. It’s for vibe coding, meaning you just describe any kind of tool, game, or app you want to create. Glaze...

BBlizine Admin·May 25, 2026·0 views

Digital Business1 min

AI agents are quietly generating chaos engineering failures enterprises don’t track yet

There is a category of production incident that engineering teams are not tracking yet — because it doesn't fit any existing postmortem template. The agent initiated an action. The action was technically correct given the agent's context. The context was incomplete. The infrastructure casc

BBlizine Admin·May 24, 2026·0 views

Digital Business8 min

Amazon’s drone ambitions are about to reshape Chicago’s south suburbs

The next frontier in drone delivery? The airspace above your community. Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, said recently that the company intends to continue developing its Prime Air drone delivery program, with the goal of expanding drone delivery to 500 million packages a year worldwide over the...

BBlizine Admin·May 24, 2026·0 views

Digital Business7 min

Why AI will create more engineers, not fewer

No one knows exactly where AI will take us beyond 12-18 months from now. Anyone who claims otherwise may have a bridge to sell you. But it’s clear that fundamental shifts in software engineering will happen within that time, and that they will transform every industry that runs on software in...

BBlizine Admin·May 24, 2026·0 views

Digital Business4 min

Nuclear startup Deep Fission says its going public, again, and I have questions

Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup's story.

BBlizine Admin·May 23, 2026·0 views

Digital Business18 min

Oracle and the AI boom’s hidden debt bomb

The old adage goes that during a boom, the companies that profit most are the ones selling the picks and shovels. This January, even as consensus had largely settled around the idea that an AI bubble exists, something even Sam Altman acknowledged last August, Blackstone called investing in the...

BBlizine Admin·May 23, 2026·0 views

Digital Business5 min

4 battery and charging tips to keep your Apple MacBook running longer than ever

For years, Apple has put a lot of effort into providing users with ways to extend their iPhone’s battery life. But while iOS slowly introduced more battery-management features for iPhone, Apple’s other big battery-powered device, the MacBook, was left behind. Lately, that’s changed. Today,...

BBlizine Admin·May 23, 2026·0 views