The Network · 2026-04-01 08:26:51 · Bloomberg Markets
India has initiated its monumental, long-delayed national census, a data-gathering operation of unprecedented scale that will digitally profile over a billion people. The exercise marks a historic policy shift, as it will formally collect information on citizens' caste for the first time since the country gained indepe...
The Lab · 2026-04-20 13:52:41 · The Verge
A major food brand is moving into the home audio space with a device explicitly designed to capture private conversations. Prego, the pasta sauce company, has launched the 'Connection Keeper,' an offline voice recorder shaped like an oversized jar lid, intended to record everything said around the dinner table. This pl...
The Lab · 2026-05-02 06:54:06 · Hacker News
Uber is quietly architecting a fundamental pivot in how it positions its global driver workforce—not merely as a rideshare labor pool, but as a distributed mobile sensor infrastructure capable of feeding real-time data directly into the autonomous vehicle ecosystem. The strategy, disclosed by Praveen Neppalli Naga, Ube...