Tracey Lien
Los Angeles Times
Oakland, CA, United States
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They worked at Apple, Amazon and Lyft. Now they're working to get you stoned
Tech workers are leaving Amazon, Yelp, Electronic Arts and Lyft for the new frontier: Cannabis. → Read More
Santa Monica tells scooter companies: OK, you can stay — but there are new rules
Santa Monica's City Council unanimously voted to approve a pilot program for electric-scooter rental companies such as Bird and Lime. Under the program, the companies will have to pay higher fees, and there are limits on how many scooters they can deploy and on how many companies can operate. → Read More
Santa Monica proposes tougher rules for Bird and other scooter rental companies
When the electric scooters descended on Santa Monica in September, the city wasn’t prepared. Now its City Council is preparing to vote on a pilot program that would rein in scooter rental companies such as Bird and Lime, with higher fees and tougher rules. → Read More
Honolulu lawmakers agree to cap surge pricing for Uber and Lyft
The City of Honolulu wants to put a cap on Uber and Lyft's surge pricing. → Read More
More than half of U.S. households have ditched landline phones
Goodbye, curly cord. It was real. About 54% of U.S. households rely entirely on cellphones, according to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. → Read More
As diversity progress in Silicon Valley stalls, advocates call for a new approach
Five years after efforts to increase diversity in Silicon Valley began, progress has been slow and what some call "diversity fatigue" has set in. Activists are disappointed and tech workers are frustrated that little has been achieved. → Read More
Waymo looks to expand its self-driving reach with Chrysler deal and Uber talks
Waymo and Uber fought a legal battle against each other. Could they now work together? → Read More
Most Uber and Lyft drivers in L.A. work full time and still struggle to make ends meet, study says
A new study from UCLA shows that many Uber and Lyft drivers work full time yet struggle to pay for expenses such as gas and car maintenance → Read More
Bird's scooters have flooded the streets of major cities. But can the start-up control misbehaving riders?
The struggle to get riders to keep themselves and others safe highlights one of the biggest challenges faced by the nascent scooter rental industry: How do you get people to behave responsibly when you give them something that looks — and rides — like a toy? → Read More
Algorithms are coming for their jobs, so workers are teaching themselves algorithms
If you can't beat the robots, "up-skill" yourself. That's the thinking among workers worried about being made obsolete by technology who are turning to educational start-ups to improve their hopes of remaining employed in the era of automation. → Read More
Uber, Lyft and other gig jobs may face a shakeup under new California work rules
Following a state Supreme Court ruling Monday, businesses across California could be forced to reclassify swaths of their workforces as employees, with profound impacts on workers and companies. → Read More
Cracking the Golden State Killer case: Clever detective work or a violation of privacy?
Experts say the way authorities matched DNA from decades-old crime scenes to a suspect arrested this week in the Golden State Killer case represents a glimpse into a future in which virtually all genetic information is accessible to the government. → Read More
The first step in finding Golden State Killer suspect: Finding his great-great-great-grandparents on genealogy site
The clue that led investigators this week to the door of the suspected Golden State Killer came from an unexpected source: GEDmatch.com — an amateur genealogy website that’s something like the Wikipedia of DNA. → Read More
With in-car delivery, Amazon tests whether customers will sacrifice privacy for convenience
At a moment when the public is questioning whether they have sacrificed too much of their privacy to technology companies, Amazon is rolling out a new delivery method that would give the company access to a place many Americans hold sacred: the trunks of their cars. → Read More
San Francisco officials are fed up with the 'public menace' of scooters
Scooter start-up Bird and its competitors LimeBike and Spin find themselves in the cross-hairs in San Francisco, where city officials are moving to restrict the companies. → Read More
San Francisco officials are fed up with Bird scooters
Scooter start-up Bird and its competitors LimeBike and Spin find themselves in the cross-hairs in San Francisco, where city officials are moving to restrict the companies. → Read More
Would you pay for an ad-free Facebook?
After years of exchanging their privacy for a free feed of news, ads, family photos and cat videos, some Facebook users are questioning whether they’re actually getting a good deal. → Read More
Would you pay for an ad-free Facebook?
After years of exchanging their privacy for a free feed of news, ads, family photos and cat videos, some Facebook users are questioning whether they’re actually getting a good deal. → Read More
Would you pay for an ad-free Facebook?
After years of exchanging their privacy for a free feed of news, ads, family photos and cat videos, some Facebook users are questioning whether they’re actually getting a good deal. → Read More
Would you pay for an ad-free Facebook?
After years of exchanging their privacy for a free feed of news, ads, family photos and cat videos, some Facebook users are questioning whether they’re actually getting a good deal. → Read More