Patrick May

Catherine Fraser transcribes a phone conversation of an insurance claim on a crowd-sourced labor site, Amazon Mechanical Turk, at her home in Mountain View, California, on April 23, 2012.

‘Crowd labor’ helps spur social networking revolution

June 17, 2018 at 6:13 p.m.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The job didn't pay much: four bucks an hour if you really hustled. But for Catherine Fraser, a recent community college grad from Mountain View looking...

Tesla devotees a breed apart

July 26, 2019 at 2:34 p.m.

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson was skimming the information packet for his Tesla Motors board of directors meeting last year when he hit pay dirt about page 50. Spotting details for...

Tesla devotees a breed apart

May 13, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson was skimming the information packet for his Tesla Motors board of directors meeting last year when he hit pay dirt about page 50. Spotting details for...

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