Avery Ellis
Senior News Editor
Avery Ellis is a senior news editor with Engadget helping to steer site coverage and hone features. Over the past decade she's covered platform governance, online extremism, and labor, and has written for Wired, Vice, The Verge, and Gizmodo, serving as a news editor at the latter two. She's been featured on CBS, WNYC, and NPR, and her reporting has received citations in Congressional documents from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and been the basis of several unfair labor practice complaints against Amazon. When she's not online Avery can mostly be found these days at law school, god help her. Send her a tip on Signal at 646.983.9846 or over email at avery@engadget.com.
Articles By Avery Ellis
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio 2 has a 13th-gen Intel CPU and RTX 40 series GPU options
It's the most powerful Surface yet.
Amazon debuts the $120 Bluetooth-enabled Fire TV Soundbar
The new addition to the Fire TV product line is available today.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
CNET's new guidelines for AI journalism met with union pushback
The site was previously forced to correct dozens of inaccurate, AI-written stories.
Apple refreshes the Mac Pro with its new M2 Ultra chip
Cupertino's premier desktop gets a gut renovation.After layoffs and an AI scandal, CNET's staff is unionizing
The tech site's survivors are demanding a seat at the table.
Google Search's new Perspectives tab will highlight forum and social media posts
What could possibly go wrong?
Rank and file tech workers have been fed up. In 2022, they organized
After years of agitation, unions are finally making tangible gains.
Exclusive: Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse.
The documents also indicate potential lapses in the company's learning and development data.
Google is failing to protect users and contractors post-Roe, workers say
Over 600 workers have signed a petition asking for more robust action.
Google fires researcher who claimed LaMDA AI was sentient
Lemoine went public with his claims last month, to the chagrin of Google and other AI researchers.
7Exclusive: Amazon instructs New York workers 'don't sign' union cards
The digital notices specifically discourage workers signing union cards.
Big tech's abortion travel policies do nothing for its contractor workforce
For some companies, these policies exclude the majority of their workforce.
Little of Microsoft's 'principles for employee organizing' is actually pro-union
The company doesn't seem short on alternatives to collective action, however.
Texas's bizarre social media law suspended by Supreme Court
The constitutionality of the law will continue to be decided in the lower court.
Apple Store workers in Georgia call off union vote over intimidation claims
Withdrawing the election request will set organizing back by at least six months.
Is Revolution's InstaGLO smart toaster worth $399?
In which Betteridge's Law is put to an exceptionally easy task and passes with flying colors.
Intel engineers, led by a Congressional hopeful, demand a union
After over a year of covert organizing, 350+ workers are seeking voluntary recognition.
A simple string of 'and's seems to crash Google Docs pages
You do not have permission to Doc.
Netflix's Tudum lays off staff months after launch
The streaming service claims there no plans to shut down down Tudum.
