Ken YeungLong-form Journalism Inside a Secretive $250 Million Private Transit System Just for Techies Medium - Zara Stone 1,000 white-collar tech shuttles are stalling Bay Area public transit This article is part of Into the Valley, a feature series from OneZero about …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism Apple’s Secret Monopoly Medium - Will Oremus Its App Store has a choke hold on your devices. That may not last much longer. You’ve just dropped $500 on a new iPad Air. You can’t wait to sign up …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism Suckers List: How Allstate’s Secret Auto Insurance Algorithm Squeezes Big Spenders – The Markup themarkup.org Seven years ago, Allstate Corporation told Maryland regulators it was time to update its auto insurance rates. The insurer said its new, …
Ken Yeung Exclusive Survey Reveals Discrimination Against Visa Workers at Tech’s Biggest Companies Medium - Sarah Emerson OneZero conducted a 10,000-person poll to shed light on the plight of H-1B workers This article is part of Into the Valley, a feature series from …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism How a Hot $100 Million Design Startup Collapsed Overnight Medium - Courtney Rubin Santos had always been a go-getter. He grew up in Hawaii, attending the academically rigorous ‘Iolani School, where keeping up took serious effort. …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism She wanted a 'freebirth' with no doctors. Online groups convinced her it would be OK. NBC News - Brandy Zadrozny As Judith's pregnancy stretched past 44 weeks, she grew worried. But rather than seeking medical assistance, she turned to extreme online freebirth communities.
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet WIRED - Richard Cooke People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right. In its …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism Inside X, Google's top-secret moonshot factory Wired UK - Oliver Franklin-Wallis Gandalf arrives on rollerblades. It’s morning in the cafeteria at X – formerly Google X – and Astro Teller, X’s Captain of Moonshots, glides over …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism NEC Is the Most Important Facial Recognition Company You’ve Never Heard Of Medium - Dave Gershgorn Carnival Cruises, Delta, and 70 Countries Use a Facial Recognition Company You’ve Never Heard Of NEC has 1,000+ biometrics contracts with agencies …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world MIT Technology Review - Karen Hao The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism. Every year, …
Ken YeungMakan Delrahim Trump's Enforcer: Meet the Man Who Holds Hollywood and Silicon Valley's Future in His Hands hollywoodreporter.com - Eriq Gardner As showbiz scales up to battle Big Tech, Makan Delrahim, the nation's top antitrust regulator (and a former movie producer), is becoming as …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London Wired UK - James Temperton It’s November 2019 and I’m standing in an Airbnb in Battersea, south London. But this is not the Airbnb I booked. Everything is slightly, …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism ‘The intelligence coup of the century’ The Washington Post - By Greg MillerFor decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries. For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism The “smarter” wall: How drones, sensors, and AI are patrolling the border Recode - Shirin GhaffaryIn an era of increasingly polarized politics, there are few issues as divisive as President Trump’s proposal to build a physical wall across part of the 2,000-mile US-Mexico border. The Trump administration
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism I Sabotaged My Boss With Ransomware From the Dark Web Bloomberg Published: February 6, 2020, 10:00 AM | Updated: February 7, 2020, 6:42 PM The time I sabotaged my editor with ransomware from the dark web. As you may …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism ClassPass Is Squeezing Fitness Studios ‘To the Point of Death’ VICE - Maxwell StrachanAt the very start of this year, the fitness startup ClassPass delivered the sort of update that would make any Silicon Valley founder salivate. According to its most recent fundraising round, the company
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism Facebook’s Platform Opportunity stratechery.com - Ben Thompson In 1992 Soros built a massive short position in pound sterling, betting that the United Kingdom had entered European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) at …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism A Small-Rocket Maker Is Running a Different Kind of Space Race Bloomberg ▲ Astra’s rocket named “One of Three” undergoes late night testing in Alameda, Calif. A Small Rocket Maker Is Running A Different Kind of Space …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism Mark Warner Takes on Big Tech and Russian Spies WIRED - Garrett M. Graff A former telecoms entrepreneur, the Virginia senator says that saving the industry (and democracy) might mean blowing up Big Tech as we know it. In …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism As Iowa caucuses loom, Facebook has a trust problem CNET - Richard Nieva Locals are concerned about the role the social network will play in next week's contest and the general election.
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong? WIRED - Kate Knibbs The company grew from a scrappy startup to a digital media player. Now it’s clinging to life after mass layoffs. On a cloudy morning the week after …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism The Rise of Smart Camera Networks, and Why We Should Ban Them The Intercept - Michael Kwet There’s widespread concern that video cameras will use facial recognition software to track our every public move. Far less remarked upon — but every …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism The Cost of Avast's Free Antivirus: Companies Can Spy on Your Clicks PCMag - Michael Kan Your antivirus should protect you, but what if it's handing over your browser history to a major marketing company? Relax. That's what Avast told the …
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism How Facial Recognition Works californiasunday.com From iPhones and Snapchat filters to airport check-ins and smart doorbells, facial recognition has entered into our everyday, as has the anxiety …
Ken YeungPeter Thiel Peter Thiel’s Latest Venture Is the American Government New York Magazine - Max Read In mid-January, at the conclusion of a special meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, the venerable free-market organization, after appearances by …
Ken Yeung The Great Indian Internet Shutdown Is the Troubling Future of Protest Control Medium - Puja Changoiwala As India experiences the longest-ever internet blockade for a democracy, more countries are pressing the internet kill switch to snub dissent When the …
Ken Yeung The House Democrat Taking On Silicon Valley POLITICO - By NANCY SCOLA and CRISTIANO LIMAPractically everybody in Washington is mad at Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. David Cicilline might actually do something about it. “If we don’t fix this, we’re not going to have a democracy anymore,”
Ken YeungLong-form Journalism The Secret History of Facial Recognition WIRED - Shaun Raviv Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, …
Ken Yeung The Tesla Skeptics Who Bet Against Elon Musk Bloomberg - Dana Hull Randeep Hothi was driving north on California’s Interstate 880 in April when he spotted a red Tesla Model 3. The sight was unremarkable—in Fremont, …
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