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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the SpaceX launch (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Keep Big Tech out of outer space!

Steve Song, Peter Bloom

Luz Laguna, Isabelle Ramos and Leonardo Diaz, left to right, with Mobile Workers Alliance hold signs in support as app based gig workers held a driving demonstration with 60-70 vehicles blocking Spring Street in front of Los Angeles City Hall urging voters to vote no on Proposition 22, a November ballot measure that would classify app-based drivers as independent contractors and not employees or agents, providing them with an exemption from Californias AB 5. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A national setback for labor, via Cali

Rideshare driver Jorge Vargas raises his No on 22 sign in support as app based gig workers held a driving demonstration with 60-70 vehicles blocking Spring Street in front of Los Angeles City Hall urging voters to vote no on Proposition 22, a November ballot measure that would classify app-based drivers as independent contractors and not employees or agents, providing them with an exemption from Californias AB 5. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

In labor setback, Prop 22 wins in Calif.

Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

California's karmic debt to the world

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Rideshare drivers demonstrate against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft during a car caravan protest on August 6, 2020 (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Lyft janitors struggle to find work

Halo App and Halo Band (Amazon)

Amazon's smartwatch is always listening

An Uber Eats delivery person (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)

An Uber Eats glitch underpays workers

Male police officer using his laptop while out on patrol (Getty Images)

Big Tech is selling bad tech to cops

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Uber/Lyft drivers conduct a ‘caravan protest' (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the world (Getty Images/Salon)

Tech barons dream of a world without us

Ramesh Srinivasan, Peter Bloom

Ride apps "tax" non-white neighborhoods

Two scooters from dockless electric scooter sharing economy company Lime are parked in a "hub" near a road in the Marina Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles, California (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

LA's mass surveillance plan for scooters

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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Getty Images/Salon)

Silicon Valley CEOs go mask off

President Donald J. Trump, seen through a window, watches a television in the press office as newscasters talk about him moments after he was speaking with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump order stifles free speech online

The Silicon Valley implosion

The tech boom is officially over

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Medical students, faculty and volunteers take blood samples during a coronavirus antibody study at Mountain View's First Presbyterian Church in Mountain View, Calif. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/Getty Images)

Experts question Stanford antibody study

Instacart employee Monica Ortega wears gloves while using her cellphone to check orders while picking up groceries from a supermarket for delivery on March 19, 2020 in North Hollywood, California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Grocery delivery workers launch a strike

A taxi driver holds a flare during a protest in front of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Chamber during a protest calling for the approval of a local new law (PLC 78/2018), to impose new rules for rideshare providers like Uber and 99 Taxi, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 10, 2019. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

How Uber controls Brazil's movement

Liliana Harrington

Some commuters opt to wear respiratory masks during the afternoon commute at Montgomery BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. On Wednesday, one person became the first victim in California to die from the coronavirus disease. Also, the first two cases in San Francisco were reported the following day. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

Coronavirus exposes class war in SF

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(Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Silicon Valley’s quest to prolong life

Dan Falk - Undark

American author of science fiction Isaac Asimov (Getty Images/Salon)

Isaac Asimov's invention of the robot

Uber, Lyft are not eco-friendly: study

A cart full of snacks sits near a mini-kitchen in a Google Kirkland building in Kirkland, Washington. More than 350 employees work in the Kirkland facility, which includes amenities such as a climbing wall, gym and soda fountain, and consolidates several offices throughout Kirkland. / Clarissa Redwine, 29, shows union buttons while posing for a portrait in Brooklyn, NY. Redwine and her former colleague, Taylor Moore, said they were fired from Kickstarter after starting to organize an effort to unionize, which would have been a first for a tech company of that stature. / Facebook employees play video games inside an arcade at the company's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California. (Yana Paskova/Stephen Brashear/Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

Tech workers are waking up

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