Stop giving companies your phone number. Do this instead
Facebook and Twitter admit that marketers accessed the phone numbers people gave them for security verification. Here’s how to protect yourself without handing over your digits. (Fast Company)
Terrible tippers are making underpaid delivery jobs even worse
Grocery delivery gig workers on Instacart are complaining of more jobs with low tips, zero tips, or disappearing tips. (Fast Company)
WeWork’s laughably weak Wi-Fi password is downright dangerous
The We Company sees itself as a world-changing tech platform. But it’s used the same weak password and dated Wi-Fi for years, putting members at risk. (Fast Company)
Tucker Carlson’s downplaying of white supremacy reinvigorates year-long boycott effort`
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson dropped an especially loud bomb Tuesday night by saying that white supremacy is “not a real problem in America,” among other startling assertions on the subject. (Fast Company)
50 years after Apollo, a U.S. return to the moon looks depressingly far off
Persistent technical setbacks and political infighting have introduced unending delays in our trip back to the lunar surface. (Fast Company)
Instacart drivers fear that hiding customer addresses puts them at risk
The company has begun hiding the addresses of some assignments until after the driver accepts it—a policy change that drivers fiercely opposed last year. (Read more on Fast Company)
I tried and failed to quit Facebook. Here’s what I did instead
Despite Facebook’s annoyances and privacy violations, abandoning the largest community in human history may have more downsides than benefits. (Fast Company)
Exclusive: Airbus will challenge Uber Copter for U.S. air-taxi business in 2019
Airbus-owned Voom will expand its app-based, on-demand helicopter shuttle service from Latin America to the United States this fall. (Fast Company)
Uber concedes that helicopters are the real flying cars, for now
With Uber’s clean, quiet electric planes still a long-term vision, Uber Copter is a more prosaic—but practical—air taxi service. (Fast Company)
After Tumblr’s NSFW ban, these adult communities have come out on top
Tumblr’s web traffic has plummeted by a third since it banned titillating images and videos–creating a niche for naughty new sites to fill. (Fast Company)