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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354616" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitter">Twitter</keyword> has apologized after a since deleted post from its official account appeared to brutally mock <keyword id="6034" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Manchester-United">Manchester United</keyword> defender <keyword id="208340" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Phil-Jones">Phil Jones</keyword>.</li><li>"Name a better footballer than Phil Jones," the company tweeted from its @TwitterUK account on Tuesday.</li><li>Twitter apologized to Jones, but says the post was designed to test out a new feature which allows users to limit who can comment on posts, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8620831/Twitter-apologise-Manchester-United-complain-tweet-Phil-Jones.html">according to Sportsmail.</a></li><li>"It was not our intention to cause upset," a spokesperson said. </li></ul><p>Twitter has apologized after a since deleted post from its official account appeared to brutally mock a Premier League footballer.</p><p>On Tuesday, the company tweeted from its @TwitterUK account: "Name a better footballer than Phil Jones." </p><p>Jones, who plays as a defender for Manchester United, has become a target of ridicule on social media in recent years for both his performances on the pitch and the facial expressions he makes whilst playing.</p><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8620831/Twitter-apologise-Manchester-United-complain-tweet-Phil-Jones.html">According to Sportsmail,</a> United complained about the post and Twitter subsequently apologized to both club and player, though the company said the tweet was designed to test out a new feature which allows users to limit who can comment on posts.</p><p>"Our aim was to showcase our new product feature, conversation controls, which allows you to select who can reply to a Tweet," a Twitter spokesperson said.</p><p>"It was not our intention to cause upset and once we realised our mistake, we immediately deleted the Tweet."</p><p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/08/13/social-media-bullying-phil-jones-brutal-unfair/">Sam Wallace of The Telegraph</a> said the tweet directed at Jones was "bullying" and labelled it as "brutal and unfair."</p><p>Jones joined Manchester United in 2011 from Blackburn Rovers, and has since made over 200 appearances for the club, winning the Premier League title and the FA Cup. </p><p>The 28-year-old however has not played for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side since the season resumed in June, and was left out of the squad for the remainder United's Europa League fixtures.</p><p>United play Sevilla in the semifinals of the competition on Sunday August 16.</p><p><strong>Read more:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/jesse-lingard-interview-paul-scholes-ibrahimovic-and-lockdown-life-2020-8">Jesse Lingard, Manchester United's forgotten star, discusses using lockdown to reinvigorate his career, and why Paul Scholes is the greatest ever</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/champions-league-psg-atalanta-eric-choupo-moting-last-minute-winner-2020-8">A journeyman once relegated from the Premier League scored a historic Champions League goal to send Paris Saint Germain into the semifinals for the first time</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/borussia-dortmund-troll-man-united-jadon-sancho-set-to-stay-2020-8">Borussia Dortmund trolled Manchester United on Twitter after it confirmed star man Jadon Sancho won't be moving to England this summer</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/fifa-21-ultimate-team-new-icons-co-op-custom-stadiums-2020-8">FIFA 21's Ultimate Team mode will include co-op play, 11 new icon players, and customizable stadiums in which you can change the music and add pyrotechnics</a></p>

Twitter apologized after a 'brutal and unfair' post from its official account appeared to mock a Premier League footballer

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="72226" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York-City">New York City</keyword> plans to launch an e-scooter rental pilot program in March 2021. </li><li>Many well-known operators like <keyword id="51700" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bird">Bird</keyword>, <keyword id="163870" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="lime">Lime</keyword>, Voi, and <keyword id="6362418" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lyft">Lyft</keyword> will likely compete as part of the Department of <keyword id="34991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="transportation">Transportation</keyword>'s bidding process. </li><li>Currently, NYC only has fixed-station rental bikes operated by Lyft. </li></ul><p>Years after electric <keyword id="83121" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="scooters">scooters</keyword> launched in cities across the US, its largest city is finally joining the party.</p><p>New York City's Department of Transportation on Friday <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/rfei-scooter-pilot-2020.pdf">issued a request for "expressions of interest"</a> for a shared electric scooter pilot program — which won't include Manhattan — beginning in March 2021.</p><p>For years, the city has boasted Citi Bike, the US' largest bikeshare (operated by Lyft), but has largely been left out of the dockless bike and scooter wars. Many current operators of fleets throughout the country are expected to apply by the December deadline.</p><p>Lime — which now operates <keyword id="1042120" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Uber">Uber</keyword>'s former JUMP bikes and scooters — Bird, Superpedestrian, Ford-owned Spin, and Voi, a European company, all said they intend to apply. Lyft did not respond to a request for comment. It's likely other operators also intend to participate.</p><p>After the deadline, city officials will review the company's responses to a lengthy list of questions and equipment demonstrations before selecting operators for the pilot.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lime-ceo-pandemic-pivot-company-on-track-turn-profit-2021-2020-10">Lime's CEO explains how the scooter company's 'near death experience' during the pandemic helped set it up to turn a profit next year</a></em></p><p><em>"</em>We applaud the City and Commissioner Trottenberg for taking this crucial next step in making New York a global leader in <keyword id="8460014" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Micromobility">micromobility</keyword>, equitable transportation and street safety," Maurice Henderson, Bird's head of government partnerships, said in a statement. </p><p>Lime echoed that sentiment: "We're excited about working with the City to craft a world-class e-scooter program that prioritizes safety, accessibility and equity," Phil Jones, the company's head of government relations, said. "As New Yorkers look for new ways to get around, e-scooters will provide an ideal option for those looking to travel around the City while remaining socially-distant."</p>

New York City will finally get electric scooter rentals this Spring

<p class="enhanced-subtitle">Meet the hidden human workforce behind the boom in artificial intelligence</p><p class="drop-cap">Since ChatGPT took the world by storm last fall, people have been in a frenzy debating the impact artificial intelligence and other new automated technology will have on America's job market. The "robots are taking our jobs" narrative was further boosted by viral videos showing new, "fully automated" <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1605755275134537728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McDonald's</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1617276171208491011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taco Bell</a> restaurants.</p><p>The knee-jerk reaction to these videos is to say that robots are coming for our jobs, but while AI and other kinds of automation have progressed, that doesn't mean they're necessarily eliminating jobs. Instead, the new tech is simply changing how we work and what kinds of jobs exist. Automation technology has ushered in a fleet of secret workers behind screens, machines, and smiling robot faces. The robots and chatbots aren't replacing humans, they're just keeping the people out of sight and out of mind. And while separating the customer from the workers serving them may be good for the companies, there's mounting evidence it's a terrible deal for the employees. </p><h2><strong>Out of sight, out of mind</strong></h2><p>When people start prognosticating about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-jobs-at-risk-replacement-artificial-intelligence-ai-labor-trends-2023-02#media-jobs-advertising-content-creation-technical-writing-journalism-2">AI coming for our jobs</a>, they love to point to videos of sleek robots and shining screens handling mundane tasks. The McDondald's video shows a machine delivering food at the drive-thru, self-ordering kiosks, and a stark lack of human staffers behind the order counter. At Taco Bell, there are several automated drive-thru lanes. Beyond fast food, impressive-looking robots are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/robots-jobs-san-francisco-strike-baristas-technology-future-of-work-2022-10">working in coffee shops</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/experts-say-an-autonomous-delivery-robot-next-big-thing-2022-2">delivering food</a>, and cleaning floors. On the AI side, tools like ChatGPT have been used to write <a href="https://www.engadget.com/cnet-gets-caught-playing-ai-mad-libs-with-its-financial-news-coverage-001026432.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABLdHX9SweBtOXZ34IT3TEXsSfaTEXCvX6lsNrWj5NRzQ658DeL9p8gwaj4vpD1lQa3TXnY7L2wN3Rkb4o-YuQeG9lv06iJEeq_riF5suC8CthSuDzJlTZ7kyQ7YtPubW35eoGtjC3o-GscdwCnfKXogTsr08T5VuNddW8exvVhJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">real articles</a> and <a href="https://london.ctvnews.ca/the-textbook-definition-of-plagiarism-educators-mobilize-to-counter-essay-writing-app-chatgpt-1.6249852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">take college exams</a>. BuzzFeed recently <a href="https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/167478729972026e3edc2cb77/raw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> it plans to use AI to help generate content for its site. </p><p>But in many cases, these videos and stories — and the fears they drive — lack crucial context. The futuristic McDonald's is an experimental concept store outside Fort Worth, Texas, aiming to improve service speed and accuracy by effectively severing the relationship between its workers and customers. But that doesn't mean there are no humans in the store. If you pay close attention to the video, you can see a worker in the back behind a pane of glass. McDonald's has said <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/23/mcdonalds-automated-workers-fort-worth-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the store isn't "fully automated"</a> by any means, and it employs a similar number of staff as a traditional store — they're just in the back making the food and keeping things running. And despite the fact most customers will never see a Taco Bell worker at its newfangled <a href="https://www.axios.com/2021/08/13/touchless-taco-bell-could-be-the-future-of-drive-thrus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">store</a>, it has plenty of people working in the kitchen.</p><div type="image" title="Taco Bell Define drive-thru" height="1665" width="2220" msid="97841241" hostid="261"></div><p>Even if these tools seem more sophisticated, this isn't the first robot-driven freak-out. Less than 10 years ago, new developments in technology spurred a similar fear that robots were coming for us. A <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2014/01/18/coming-to-an-office-near-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2014 analysis estimated</a> that automation would wipe out <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/17/rise-of-the-machines-economist_n_4616931.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">47% of all jobs</a> by 2034 and that self-driving technology would eliminate the need for human taxi and delivery drivers, while <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/17/self-driving-trucks-impact-on-drivers-jobs-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long-haul truckers</a> were thought to be on borrowed time. Nearly a decade later, these cataclysmic forecasts haven't come to pass. Truck <a href="https://www.vox.com/22841783/truck-drivers-shortage-supply-chain-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drivers</a> are still in high demand, and self-driving technology is <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-06/even-after-100-billion-self-driving-cars-are-going-nowhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nowhere near replacing human jobs</a>. In fact, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/wef-says-machines-will-create-jobs-but-warns-of-pandemic-disruption.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a more recent 2020 report</a> from the World Economic Forum estimated that while 85 million jobs would be replaced by machines by 2025, an estimated 97 million new jobs would be created to help support this new economy. </p><h2><strong>The human behind the curtain</strong></h2><p>Amid the fear-mongering about a robot takeover, people often miss the degree to which machines still require human workers in order to function. Take customer service: For years, <a href="https://www.vox.com/23571375/no-call-center-phone-number-frontier-facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">businesses have tried to cut costs</a> by replacing human phone calls with chat-based, automated customer-service bots. But instead of replacing customer-service workers, many of these text-based tools still rely on human backups in complex situations and to make customers feel as if they are talking to a real person. </p><p>Laura Preston recently wrote about her <a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/essays/human_fallback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experience working as one of these "human fallbacks</a>" for a real-estate chatbot called Brenda. When a customer wanted to speak to someone about an apartment listing, they would be connected with Brenda, who could answer basic questions about the listing or give details on the apartment itself from the price of rent to the square footage. But many of Brenda's answers came across stilted or the system was simply unable to answer more complex questions, so a "human fallback" would step in. Preston and other human workers would take over the conversation and try to help the client, cleaning up stock answers to better address their needs or doing deeper research into housing vouchers and pet policies. According to Preston, employees were trained to use Brenda's "voice" in the interactions in an attempt to make the conversation appear seamless. And the push to robotically answer a deluge of questions came with a serious mental toll: "Months of impersonating Brenda had depleted my emotional resources," wrote Preston. "It occurred to me that I wasn't really training Brenda to think like a human, Brenda was training me to think like a bot, and perhaps that had been the point all along."</p><div type="image" title="Kiwibot Berkeley" height="3814" width="5085" msid="97841245" hostid="261"></div><p>Preston was working from the United States, but in many cases, these services are hiding human employees so they can outsource it to places where the labor is cheaper. Take food-delivery robots: While they're presented as being fully autonomous, the reality is that they often have remote backup drivers. Tiny Mile, which runs a service in Toronto called Geoffrey, relies on <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/08/04/they-are-cute-pink-robots-who-bring-you-local-food-but-their-drivers-may-well-be-a-17-hour-flight-away.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drivers in the Philippines</a>, while Kiwi's robots, which are used on some US college campuses, have been known to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Kiwibots-win-fans-at-UC-Berkeley-as-they-deliver-13895867.php?psid=8hcdb#photo-17543383" target="_blank" rel="noopener">use workers in Colombia</a> making less than $2 an hour to help complete deliveries. Companies claim the remote drivers only take over when the robots can't navigate a situation, but given how prone these robots are <a href="https://www.autoevolution.com/news/an-inch-of-snow-proves-too-much-for-six-wheeled-delivery-robots-amusement-ensues-176050.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to getting stuck</a> and becoming<a href="https://thespoon.tech/starships-robots-pulled-from-university-of-pittsburgh-after-accessibility-incident/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> obstacles</a> for sidewalk users, it's not clear how often that happens. </p><p>Many of the leading companies developing self-driving vehicles, which have threatened to one day replace a host of driving jobs, also rely on a fleet of hidden workers. Obviously, there are the highly paid engineers in the US who help develop the software and tools used to map and guide the car, but that isn't the full picture. Autonomous-driving tech is reliant on poorly paid workers around the world who label the thousands of data inputs the car's sensors capture. Without that labeling, the computer wouldn't be able to identify what the sensors are picking up, which allows the systems to slowly learn and make decisions on how to navigate the road. For instance, the data labeling is supposed to help the cars distinguish whether an obstruction is <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bzxm/lets-go-hit-this-kid-tesla-stans-find-actual-child-to-try-and-prove-teslas-dont-run-over-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a child or a traffic cone</a> — though it doesn't always work out as planned. An MIT Technology Review investigation last April found that self-driving companies, including Tesla, took advantage of the collapse of Venezuela's economy by getting workers in the country to label self-driving data for an average of <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/20/1050392/ai-industry-appen-scale-data-labels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">just over 90 cents an hour</a>. Last year, Tesla <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/tesla-cutting-200-jobs-closing-autopilot-office-in-san-mateo.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laid off 200 US-based workers</a> it directly employed to do this labeling, suggesting it was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/cars/tesla-autopilot-data-label-layoffs/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">automating a majority of those tasks</a> instead — a computer teaching another computer. </p><p>It's not just self-driving tech. A recent Time magazine <a href="https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> found that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, relies on Kenyan workers paid less than $2 an hour who have to view content on a range of disturbing topics, including "child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest," to try to make the tool less toxic. This follows <a href="https://time.com/6147458/facebook-africa-content-moderation-employee-treatment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an earlier report</a> about Facebook using the same subcontractor in Kenya for its own content moderation. Other companies have gone so far as to <a href="https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recruit workers in refugee camps</a>, where the opportunities are few and people will accept incredibly low wages, to help train their machine learning and AI tools. Far from the "set it and forget it" tools that require just a few genius coders, many of these supposedly autonomous marvels actually rely on an army of low-paid workers around the world.</p><h2><strong>The myth of efficiency</strong></h2><p>If you ask the companies, they'll say the automation push is about efficiency and better serving customers. McDonald's claims its concept store will speed up service and lead to fewer wrong orders, while Tesla has claimed that automating data labeling is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/cars/tesla-autopilot-data-label-layoffs/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more efficient</a>. The idea is that these machines or software solutions will allow a job to be done faster or better, making life easier for companies and customers alike. But in reality, these tools aren't more efficient — they just shift the necessary work away from the end consumer and disconnect people from the effort that is required to deliver them a product.</p><p>For one thing, it's not even clear that all the newfangled tools that companies have built are actually making the economy more efficient. US labor productivity — the measure of how many worker hours are required to produce a certain amount of economic output — has been growing at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/the-us-productivity-slowdown-the-economy-wide-and-industry-level-analysis.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">below its long-run average</a> since 2005. And despite hope that the forced digital transition would turn it around, productivity growth has only <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/falling-labor-productivity-company-profit-margins-stock-market-crash-recession-2022-10">gotten worse since the start of the pandemic</a>.</p><p>Instead of improving productivity, automation is often focused on increasing the power that employers have over workers. In his book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Automation-Future-Work-Aaron-Benanav/dp/1839761296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Automation and the Future of Work</a>," the economic historian Aaron Benanav explains that companies aren't putting money toward tools to make employees' lives easier, but are pouring money into "technologies allowing for detailed surveillance of those same workers" like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/27/remote-work-software-home-surveillance-computer-monitoring-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">computer-monitoring software</a> that tracks the keystrokes of employees or Amazon's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/02/amazon-workplace-monitoring-unions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sophisticated algorithmic management tools</a> that evaluate workers' every movement.</p><div type="image" title="A packing station inside an Amazon warehouse in Germany." height="2638" width="3517" msid="97841248" hostid="261"></div><p>These technologies are often deployed to de-skill work — jobs are broken down into more specific tasks and can be done with less training. As a result, workers are shifted from employee to contractor status. People who once worked stable, middle-class jobs are thrown into a more precarious world where wages are lower and they have less say over the terms of their employment. The data labelers are the tip of this iceberg: A large (and growing) industry of "microworkers" on platforms like Mechanical Turk or Clickworker fuel the supposed automated tech of all these tech companies. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went so far as to call the use of workers to make a process seem automated "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/business/yourmoney/25Stream.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial artificial intelligence</a>." For those who still hold onto service or warehouse jobs, the specter of automation is wielded like a Sword of Damocles to keep them from pushing for better working conditions or wages. Meanwhile, the technologies that are deployed simply give employers more power to track everything workers do while on the clock — a miserable <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-monitors-employees-ai-cameras-union-surveillance-spy-agency-2021-4">working reality</a>. Looking at this trend in 2015, the journalist Lauren Smiley <a href="https://medium.com/matter/the-shut-in-economy-ec3ec1294816" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that it was creating a world where "you're either pampered, isolated royalty — or you're a 21st-century servant." </p><p>There's no question that some of these technologies provide conveniences for consumers or even free up their time so they can focus on their own work, but that doesn't make the treatment of the workers they depend on acceptable. Technology could be used to empower workers, for example, by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/global-workers-data-idUSKBN28Q0OY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">giving them more control over their work</a> so they can use their skills to make more informed decisions, but that data is often not shared by companies. </p><p>Instead of using this new technology for good, Phil Jones, a researcher and the author of "Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism," argues that companies simply deploy semi-automated tech to make it seem as if executives or the brand itself deserve all the credit for the end product rather than the human employees who made it possible. "Workers disappear in the long shadow of the machine," Jones writes, and customers and clients don't have to think as much about how the sausage gets made. All the while, the quality of jobs is degraded. </p><p>New technologies like AI are framed as offering us various forms of empowerment and liberation: We'll be able to work more productively, spend less time doing our chores, and anything we want will be a click or tap away. But those promises never paint an accurate picture of how that tech is transforming the world around us or the true cost of those supposed benefits. Automation may empower some people, but in the process, it's making things a lot harder for the hidden workers keeping everything moving.</p><p><em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/paris-marx" rel="">Paris Marx</a> is a tech writer and host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast. They are the author of the book <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3995-road-to-nowhere" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation</a>.</em></p>

Artificial intelligence's dirty secret

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Graham Rapier / Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">A Lime public affairs employee greets pedestrians outside Lime's pop-up over the weekend.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Electric scooter rental companies are betting that New York is the next frontier for their services. </strong></li><li><strong>The<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-could-make-e-bikes-scooters-legal-2018-11"> city council is currently considering bills that would legalize the vehicles</a> and create a pilot program for New Yorkers to rent them via apps. </strong></li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/lime">Lime</a> hosted a weekend pop-up to show off its new scooter, which it hopes can withstand the harsh New York City streets. </strong></li></ul><p>The fleets of rentable <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/scooters">electric scooters</a> that have expanded to wide swaths of the United States and other countries have largely missed out on a key market: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-could-make-e-bikes-scooters-legal-2018-11">New York City.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/lime">Lime</a>, which has operated a pilot dockless bike share program here since 2018, is hoping that's about to change.</p><p>The $2 billion company opened up a storefront over the weekend to show off its newest model of scooter, the first to be designed in-house.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Graham Rapier / Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">"This scooter is made for New York," according to Lime.</p></div><p></p></div></div>"This scooter is made for New York," Phil Jones, Lime's senior policy director for the east coast, said in an interview about the new scooter, which features larger wheels, mountain bike-esque shock absorbers, and a new braking system.</p><p>Not only is the heavier, more rugged scooter designed for New York's rough terrain, it should also last longer than its previous models, which can quickly wear out and are susceptible to vandalism.</p><p>Juicing - Lime's term for charging its scooters, which is done overnight by contractors - could be tricky in New York. The new model weighs about 40 pounds, and could be difficult to haul into a walk-up apartment for charging.</p><p>Winter has also taken its toll on Lime, which racked up its massive valuation and global expansion in much warmer months. The company packed up hundreds of scooters in cities like St. Louis and brought them south for the winter where they can actually be ridden.</p><p>Still, Lime is hoping New York could warm up the company's business in a big way. Already the largest market for ride-hailing, the city could soon legalize electric scooters (as well as medal assist e-bikes) and create a pilot program for companies like Lime, its larger competitor Bird, Lyft, and more. </p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/e-scooter-accidents-on-the-rise-but-startup-helmet-policies-are-inconsistent-2018-11" data-analytics-position="3">E-scooters are sending dozens of people to emergency rooms - and the companies appear to have a double standard when it comes to safety</a></em></p><p>"We understand the issues New York City is facing with <keyword id="34991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="transportation">transportation</keyword> equity," Jones, who previously worked for the city council and public advocate's office, said. 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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="image-container full" style="width:620px"><div class="image"></div><p class="source">ESPN</p><p class="caption">The United goal bounced off a City player's back</p></div><br />The Manchester United-Manchester City game has sprung to life in the second half.</span></p>
<p>It's now 2-1 City after a 78th minute Sergio Aguero goal <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/city-aguero-scores-goal-manchester-united-2013-4">(video here)</a>. But earlier there was a wild 10-minute sequence where each team scored a deflected goal.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">James Milner opened the scoring for City with this deflected shot from the edge of the box.</span></p>
<p>Seven minutes later, Phil Jones knocked a header off Vincent Kompany's back and it went in.</p>
<p>Here's Milner:<br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>

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Manchester City And Manchester United Scored Two Lucky Deflected Goals In 10 Minutes

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Paul Ellis/AFP</span></p><p class="caption">Manchester United manager David Moyes is distraught as his team loses to Everton.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Manchester United manager David Moyes tasted defeat on his first return to Everton since leaving the club as his side were beaten 2-0 in the Premier League on Sunday.</p>
<p>Moyes was greeted with a smattering of boos as he walked out of the tunnel before the match, but it was the loss, which definitively ended United's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League, that will trouble him more.</p>
<p>Before Liverpool's 3-2 win at Norwich City earlier in the day, United had boasted the best away record in the division, but they were swept aside by Roberto Martinez's effervescent Everton team.</p>
<p>Leighton Baines, a United transfer target until he signed a new long-term deal earlier this year, opened the scoring with a 28th-minute penalty and Kevin Mirallas added a second goal shortly before half-time.</p>
<p>A United comeback never looked likely as Moyes's beleaguered side slipped to their 10th defeat of 2014 in all competitions and their 11th loss of the league campaign.</p>
<p>But Everton, who won 1-0 at Old Trafford in December, remain a point behind fourth-place Arsenal with three matches remaining after only a third win over United in 19 league matches at Goodison Park.</p>
<p>Everton played with the greater incision from the start, with Seamus Coleman bounding forward from right-back at every opportunity.</p>
<p>An early cross towards Mirallas was glanced away by Chris Smalling and Ross Barkley lifted a shot over from the rebound.</p>
<p>Phil Jones then did well to block efforts from Romelu Lukaku and Coleman as Everton began to dominate.</p>
<p>The hosts had a penalty appeal turned down when Jonny Evans threw himself at Steven Naismith's effort, before the Everton player wasted a fine opportunity when he thumped over from Lukaku's flick.</p>
<p>With Juan Mata, Shinji Kagawa and Nani -- making his first start since December 7 -- playing behind Wayne Rooney, United were listless as an attacking force.</p>
<p>From a spell of attacking possession for the visitors, Everton broke quickly and after Jones slipped, he stuck out an arm to block Lukaku's curling shot, obliging referee Mark Clattenburg to award a penalty.</p>
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<p>- Everton fans goad Moyes -</p>
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<p>Baines guided the spot-kick down the middle for his sixth goal of the season.</p>
<p>After that, Everton soaked up more aimless play from United and doubled their advantage just before the interval.</p>
<p>Baines won the ball from Mata and Naismith knocked the ball out to the right for Coleman.</p>
<p>The Irishman slipped a pass through for Mirallas, who was played onside by Alex Buttner, and the Belgian placed a shot inside the far post.</p>
<p>Tim Howard was finally worked in first-half added time when a Rooney corner hit Sylvain Distin and the Everton goalkeeper was forced into a save.</p>
<p>Everton lost Distin to injury at the break and the visitors immediately showed more threat, although substitute Antolin Alcaraz did well to deny Rooney a shooting chance after the United captain had turned away from John Stones inside the area.</p>
<p>When Everton failed to deal with a Rooney free-kick from the right, Kagawa's low drive was held at the second attempt by Howard.</p>
<p>Alcaraz might have done better when he could only make weak contact with a free header from a Mirallas corner.</p>
<p>After Kagawa headed straight at Howard from Buttner's deep cross, Moyes tried to shake his team up by bringing on Antonio Valancia at right-back and also throwing on striker Javier Hernandez.</p>
<p>Darren Fletcher sliced wide for United, but Naismith should have scored a third at the other end, the Scot missing from a good position after being picked out by Mirallas.</p>
<p>Naismith went closer when he was fed by Coleman and had a curling shot pushed past the post by United goalkeeper David de Gea after a quick break.</p>
<p>Rooney had an effort palmed away by Howard in the closing stages, but United were well beaten and Everton supporters chanted 'You're getting sacked in the morning!' at Moyes as the match drew to a close.</p>
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