| Waymo launches its self-driving car service, Google contract workers demand better treatment and Rudy Giuliani gets confused by Twitter. Here's your Daily Crunch for December 5, 2018. 1. Waymo launches self-driving car service Waymo One The Waymo One self-driving car service, and accompanying app, won't be available to just anyone. And for now, the company says it will have Waymo-trained test drivers behind the wheel. Waymo will first invite Phoenix residents who are part of its early rider program. The program launched in April 2017 and, the last time Waymo shared figures, had more than 400 participants. 
2. Google contract workers demand better pay and benefits In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, these contract workers allege Google "routinely denies TVCs access to information that is relevant to our jobs and our lives." For example, when there was a shooting at YouTube this past April, they say Google only sent out updates to full-time employees. 3. Rudy Giuliani, a Trump cybersecurity adviser, doesn't understand the internet It's embarrassing enough that Giuliani inadvertently tweeted a link to a website criticizing Trump, but now he's doubling down on cyberstupidity by claiming that "Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message." 4. These are the 15 best US tech companies to work for in 2019, according to Glassdoor Unsurprisingly, Facebook is no longer ranked as the top large company to work for in the United States. Following scandal after scandal, employee sentiment at Facebook decreased from an average 4.6 rating in Q1 2018 to 4.3 in Q4. 5. AT&T says it's getting that 5G Samsung phone, too AT&T issued a next-day press release which, like Verizon's, is less focused on information about the handset and more on self-congratulatory statements about the two companies involved. AT&T promises "unforeseen possibilities for the tech," while pledging to "bring the best in technology and innovation to our customers." 6. Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features The old policy felt pretty disingenuous, given how aggressively Facebook has replicated everyone else's core functionality, from Snapchat to Twitter and beyond. 7. Acast raises $35M to help podcasters make money Acast pioneered the practice of dynamically inserting ads into podcasts — as opposed to the model where (as the CEO put it), "When you listen to a five-year-old podcast, you'll hear the host read a five-year-old ad." | 
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