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

Lyft is spending millions to stop Massachusetts drivers from becoming employees
Two years after kneecapping efforts to classify drivers in California as employees rather than contractors, Lyft is returning to the same, expensive playbook on the East Coast.
Netflix is about to get more expensive for North American customers
Netflix is raising prices for customers in the US and Canada. Monthly prices are slated to increase a buck or two, depending on your subscription tier.
Meta delays return to office to an optimistic March 28th
The company, which was known as Facebook at the start of this pandemic, has updated its guidance a half dozen times.
Tesla will hike prices on self-driving mode, again
"Full self-driving" will soon cost $12,000. And it doesn't even buy you an actual, self-driving car.
Amazon cuts paid COVID-19 leave for workers in half
Amazon, the second-largest employer in the US, announced today that it would be slashing its paid leave policies for workers forced to quarantine in half.
Google Fiber workers in Kansas City make a bid to unionize
A supermajority of customer service workers, jointly employed by Google and BDS Connected Solutions, have signed union cards with a division of the Communication Workers of America, and are petitioning the NLRB for recognition.
Let's watch two minutes of the upcoming 'Uncharted' movie
The live-action adaptation of the Uncharted series is happening against all odds, and here's two-and-a-half minutes of high-flight fights to prove it.
'Death Stranding Director's Cut' arrives on PC this spring
All the goodies of the PS5 version (and then some) will arrive for Windows users in the first half of this year.
Sega left one of its European servers wide open
A misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket contained sensitive information which allowed researchers to arbitrarily upload files to Sega-owned domains and abuse a 250,000-user email list.
Amazon warned workers that its busy season could make them feel suicidal
Peak season is hectic during the best of times. It's also when Amazon expects some number of its workforce to take out their stress on their colleagues, or on themselves.
Amazon reinstates mask mandates across all of its warehouses
The decision comes not long after it lifted the requirement for vaccinated workers.
Uber will test 'autonomous' food delivery sometime next year
Motional will supply the self-driving vehicles, which will shuttle self-driving meal kits (and human operators) to Santa Monica residents soon.
Apple joins the ranks of companies delaying their return to office
The company has delayed its target date for in-person work for the fourth time.
Vodeo becomes the first unionized games studio in North America
Vodeo Games, which was founded this year by Threes designer Ashley Vollmer, has successfully unionized with CODE-CWA.
iFixit partners with Microsoft on official repair tools
Device repair tutorials site iFixit announced it will join forces with Microsoft to manufacture and sell official repair tools for some Surface models.
Amazon's casualties in Illinois aren't an isolated incident
While Friday's tornado system may have been an unusually extreme weather event for many reasons, Amazon's decision to schedule its workers during potentially deadly conditions is not.
The FAA will give Bezos and Branson its last astronaut wings
The Federal Aviation Administration is abruptly ending its award for commercial spaceflight, and its final recipients are exactly the people who can afford to go to space for fun.
Senate bill would facilitate social platforms sharing data with outside researchers
A bill announced yesterday would open social media company data to scrutiny by 3rd-party academics.
'Banjo-Kazooie' joins the Switch Online Expansion Pack in January
Rare's beloved collect-a-thon platformer will be the latest title added to Expansion Pack, Nintendo's premium online subscription.
'Lord of the Rings: Gollum' reveals new gameplay footage
Daedalic Entertainment dropped some fresh footage of the antiheroic erstwhile hobbit battling a band of orcs.