Melanie Ehrenkranz

When Annie, a 29-year-old software engineer in Austin, Texas, fixed her male coworker’s code while he was on vacation, she said, he got mad. “He said to me in front of everyone that I was a cunt because I thought I could write better code than him,”…

As you gently lower your boner onto your fingerprint reader to access your cache of adult entertainment, think: How did I get here? CamSoda, an adult entertainment webcam platform, announced Thursday that it is launching the first iteration of…

Silicon Valley has been rocked over the last few months by a flood of sexual harassment allegations, with former Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s blog post the catalyst behind the torrent of women coming forward. While these are certainly not the first…

Women’s reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, public school funding, “DO NOT TOUCH” signs — Vice President Mike Pence likes to get his hands on things he shouldn’t. During a tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Reuters photographer Mike…

Two student robotics teams will have to watch their inventions compete over Skype because the United States denied their visas. One is an all-girls team from Afghanistan, the other a team of five teens from the Gambia. Both of their robots — which…

As you watch the evening sky burst and cackle into life with glittering fireworks, do you ever wonder: How the hell did they do that? Fireworks come from the humble “aerial shell,” a handcrafted capsule loaded with all the fixings needed to control…

On Monday morning, I fired up ye olde Tinder app and did what any modern woman looking for her soulmate should do: I messaged all of my matches with word vomit spawned from a machine. “You must be a tringle? ’Cause you’re the only thing here.” I…

When Facebook Marketplace launched in October, it didn’t take detective-like sleuthing to find a plethora of illegal goods, including an AK-47, baby hedgehogs and some sweet kush. Facebook blamed the posts on a glitch, apologized and promised to…

Machines have the capacity to learn, but they struggle to understand the nuances of the human mind and language. Which is probably why an algorithm's idea of an inspirational poster looks like this: InspiroBot is "an artificial intelligence…

Lining up along a fence to urinate. Relieving themselves in the bushes. Carrying a water bottle in their cars in case of an emergency. These are a few of the options Uber and Lyft drivers rely on when they have a pick-up at New York City's John F.…

Marissa Johnson didn't anticipate that halfway through her 40-minute trip to the airport, her Uber driver would begin telling her how lucky his great-grandparents' slaves were. She also didn't know that he would, allegedly, drop her off in a…

Samantha, a 15-year-old Girl Scouts Ambassador in the greater Chicago and northwest Indiana region, said that one of her school friends had an issue with a classmate using her login to send out messages. "The cybersecurity training will help girls…

Ride-sharing giant Uber is reeling from a mass exodus of leaders — including CEO Travis Kalanick — following a series of scandals and an investigation into the company's internal work culture, resulting in at least 20 employees fired. Mic has…

On Wednesday, Travis Kalanick resigned as Uber's Chief Executive Officer. He follows in the footsteps of 14 other executives that have left the company just this year. Uber's fate hangs in the balance, with a vacuous C-Suite and a slew of problems…

Texas is sprawling with "contraceptive deserts" — counties without at least one public clinic with a full range of contraceptive methods for every 1,000 women who need them. And with Planned Parenthood and other women’s health clinics constantly…

For a while, Uber has resisted adding tipping to its app. Its competitors — Lyft, Juno, Gett and traditional taxis — all have tipping functions, and Uber drivers have urged the company to add an in-app option for riders. On Tuesday, the…

Twitter announced in November that it was giving users better reporting tools. But an improved reporting tool is futile if Twitter finds the abusive content permissible or takes a while to remove it. A cursory search on Twitter reveals that there…

If it's anything like the last one, Monday's White House tech summit won't set any real change into motion — but it will be great PR for the Trump administration. This week, a bunch of high-profile Silicon Valley leaders are gathering in Washington…

In December 2014, a woman was raped by her Uber driver in India. At that time, Travis Kalanick responded with the following statement: "What happened over the weekend in New Delhi is horrific. Our entire team’s hearts go out to the victim of this…