Saturday 27th April 2024

What Is the Role of Customers in the Gig Economy?

Wharton professor talks about why the relationship between customers and gig companies is an asymmetrical power relationship.

Lindsey Cameron, Wharton assistant professor of management, joins the show to discuss the gig economy and how it pits customers against workers.

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Is Influencer Marketing Worth It?

Wharton professor discusses the difference between "mega" and "micro" influencers in ad campaigns.

Brands pay millions for mega-influencer endorsements, but new research from Wharton’s Ryan Dew and Raghuram Iyengar finds more followers don’t always yield the biggest bang for the buck.

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The secret ingredient of business success

Too often, employees are unmotivated and unhappy, with no real incentive to invest much of anything into their place of work. Investment expert Pete Stavros thinks there's a better way, and he's on a mission to rethink corporate structures to expand who benefits from a thriving company. Sharing personal stories of his own journey along with the profound impact doing this work effectively can have, this moving talk provides a blueprint for changing the narrative — and outlook — for millions of workers worldwide.Continued here

Tesla's 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny

Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous falls in sales and profitability. Today, we've learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned that Tesla's massive recall to fix its Autopilot driver assist—which was pushed out to more than 2 million cars last December—has not actually made the system that much safer.

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Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, bugginess, and convoluted development history than its utility as a computer operating system.

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TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say

TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden has signed into law a bill that will ban TikTok in the US if its Chinese owner doesn't sell the company within 270 days. While it's impossible to predict the outcome with certainty, law professors speaking to Ars believe that ByteDance will have a strong First Amendment case in its lawsuit against the US.

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Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord

Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.

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US's power grid continues to lower emissions--everything else, not so much

On Thursday, the US Department of Energy released its preliminary estimate for the nation's carbon emissions in the previous year. Any drop in emissions puts us on a path that would avoid some of the catastrophic warming scenarios that were still on the table at the turn of the century. But if we're to have a chance of meeting the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the planet from warming beyond 2° C, we'll need to see emissions drop dramatically in the near future.

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Hackers try to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability that's as severe as it gets

Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability that allows complete takeover, researchers said.

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Android TV has access to your entire account--but Google is changing that

Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant attackers with physical access to your device access to your entire Google account just by sideloading some apps. As 404 Media reports, the issue was originally brought to Google's attention by US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as part of a "review of the privacy practices of streaming TV technology providers." Google originally told the senator that the issue was expected behavior but, after media coverage, decided to change its stance and issue some kind of patch.

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