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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. After years of fighting them in court, Uber has given drivers unprecedented collective bargaining power for the first time by striking a deal with one of the largest unions in the UK. WIRED UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. In an agreement coined with the GMB union following weeks of negotiations, the ride-hailing company says it will recognize trade union representation for its 70,000 UK drivers and has committed to giving workers a seat at the table, pledging to meet union leaders quarterly to discuss driver is...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The online metaverse and social networking site IMVU grew by 44 percent during the pandemic; it now attracts 7 million active users a month, most of them female or female-identifying and aged from 18 to 24. If you aren’t one of those millions, here’s a primer: On IMVU, users create personal avatars and dress them in clothes designed by fellow users—creators, in site parlance—bought with credits paid for with real money. The point of IMVU is to connect virtually with friends and to potentially make new ones, but shoppin...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Elon Musk's Neuralink has been making waves on the technology side of neural implants, but it hasn't yet shown how we might actually use implants. For now, demonstrating the promise of implants remains in the hands of the academic community. Ars Technica This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. This week, that community provided a rather impressive example of the promise of neural implants...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Most of the scribes who copied the text contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls were anonymous, as they neglected to sign their work. That has made it challenging for scholars to determine whether a given manuscript should be attributed to a single scribe or more than one, based on unique elements in their writing styles (a study called paleography). Now, a new handwriting analysis of the Great Isaiah Scroll, applying the tools of artificial intelligence, has revealed that the text was likely written by two scribes, mirroring one...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. It was in September 2017 when Apple made IKEA a launch partner for its ARKit in the iOS 11 keynote, and all of a sudden the staunchly analog furniture brand was at the vanguard of retail tech. The IKEA Place app let you put digital furniture anywhere. WIRED UK  This story originally appeared on WIRED UK.  Just a few months earlier, Tim Cook said in an interview that he was so excited about augmented reality that he wanted “to yell out and scream.” He name-checked IKEA and cited buying furniture as a prime example of som...