Uber will pay over $2 million to disabled riders after federal settlement

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has settled with the Department of Justice over allegations that it discriminated against disabled passengers, the DOJ announced in a press release on Monday. As part of the agreement, Uber will credit double the total wait fees issued to the 65,000 disabled riders already identified by Uber’s…

Feds are tracking phone locations with data bought from brokers

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been buying location data from third parties to sidestep the traditional warrant process, according to new documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The documents show that agencies like Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs…

Musk wants Twitter trial pushed to 2023 so he has time to analyze spam data

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) Elon Musk urged the Delaware Court of Chancery to reject Twitter’s motion for an expedited trial, saying he needs extensive time to analyze Twitter’s spam-account data. While Twitter’s motion sought a four-day trial to be completed in September 2022, Musk’s court filing on…

How one institution keeps claiming math’s highest award

Enlarge / The buildings of the IHES. (credit: Dhananjay Khadilkar) Even before this year’s Fields Medal winners announcement, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) or the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies, boasted a remarkable statistic. Since its founding in 1958, the institute has had 12 permanent mathematics professors; seven of them had won a…