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The brutal business practices of Amazon

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In May of 2020, seven members of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee penned a letter to...
In May of 2020, seven members of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee penned a letter to then CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos. “On April 23,” their message began, The Wall Street Journal “reported that Amazon employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers on its platform to develop competing p...

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Cloudflare R2 Introduces Event Notifications and Infrequent Access Storage Tier

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During the recent Developer Week, Cloudflare announced that the object storage R2 now supports event notifications,...
During the recent Developer Week, Cloudflare announced that the object storage R2 now supports event notifications, which automatically trigger Workers in response to data changes. Additionally, the migration service Super Slurper now extends its support to Google Cloud Storage and a new infrequent access storage ti...

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All Bad Bosses at Amazon Are Now Named 'Wayne'

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Google just released its AI chip rival to Nvidia

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Amazon is cutting jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS

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Amazon said Wednesday it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part...
Amazon said Wednesday it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part of a strategic shift.The company will trim “a few hundred roles” in the team that overlooks technology for physical stores, a move that comes just a day after Amazon said it was ditching Just Walk Out technology in its U.S. g...

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Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' tech was powered by low-paid Indian workers: report

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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

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Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by...
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.Ju...

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Stability AI's Founder Tanked His Billion-Dollar Startup

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Stability AI founder and former CEO Emad Mostaque.PHOTO BY LEVON BISS FOR FORBES Stability AI founder...
Stability AI founder and former CEO Emad Mostaque.PHOTO BY LEVON BISS FOR FORBES Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque took the stage last week at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California to roaring applause and an introduction from an AI-generated Aristotle who announced him as “a modern Prometheus” with “the a...

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Fake AI-Generated Books Swarm Amazon

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Authors find themselves helpless amid rip-offs of their book summaries being sold on Amazon. These scammers...
Authors find themselves helpless amid rip-offs of their book summaries being sold on Amazon. These scammers use AI-generated content to steal the ideas of original creators. They have limited options to control the use of imitations.In 2019, AI researcher Melanie Mitchell wrote a book called “Artificial Intelligence...

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Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126M in Tech Stocks

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Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called “TikTok ban” last week...
Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called “TikTok ban” last week may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies, according to data from Quiver Quantitative, a company that tracks congressional investments. Among the 352 members of the Hou...

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Trackers Placed in Amazon Pkging Reveal What Happens to Store Drop-Off Recycling

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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Feeling guilty about...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Feeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up around the house? Fear not — they can be recycled! At least, that’s what the packaging says.For years now, Amazon’s plastic bags, bubble-lined mailers, ...

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Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report

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Michael Dell, the CEO of the technology company that bears his surname, has long been an...
Michael Dell, the CEO of the technology company that bears his surname, has long been an advocate of remote work and not so long ago called it “the future of work.” But it seems that even Dell (the company), can’t help but follow the trend among technology companies suddenly convinced that in-office work is the best...

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AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation Up to 40% Faster

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Nvidia CEO Huang wishes 'ample doses of pain and suffering' on Stanford students

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Journalist Kara Swisher's book reflects Bay Area tech's anti-worker problem

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Google Will Pay You $5M to Figure Out What the Hell Quantum Computers Do

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If you’ve ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you’re not alone. The truth is, no...
If you’ve ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you’re not alone. The truth is, no one knows what modern problems this technology can solve. Google launched a multi-year, global competition on Monday to find real-world use cases for quantum computing, and the finalists will split $5 million.“While there ...

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Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly

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I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar...
I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar 9–10), then San Francisco (Mar 13), and more!For the pro-monopoly crowd that absolutely dominated antitrust law from the Carter administration until 2020, Amazon presents a genuinely puzzling paradox: the company’s monopoly pow...

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AI Grifters Fill Amazon with Kara Swisher Memoir Ripoffs

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Journalist Kara Swisher’s long-anticipated memoir Burn Book hit the shelves today. Apparently, a long list of...
Journalist Kara Swisher’s long-anticipated memoir Burn Book hit the shelves today. Apparently, a long list of other writers have also been hard at work writing about her experience as well. On the day after her book launch, Amazon is flooded with AI-generated Swisher biographies, complete with cover art from beyond ...

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Driverless taxis are causing less mayhem on SF streets. Officials explain why

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How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix

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An eight-year-old South African streaming company has zoomed past Netflix to become Africa’s favorite. Showmax —...
An eight-year-old South African streaming company has zoomed past Netflix to become Africa’s favorite. Showmax — which was spun out of Africa’s largest entertainment company, MultiChoice, in 2015 — had 2.1 million subscribers on the continent at the end of November 2023, as compared to 1.8 million for Netflix, accor...

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Nvidia Is Now More Valuable Than Amazon and Google

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Nvidia’s market value surpassed those of fellow technology titans Amazon and Alphabet on Monday, an almost...
Nvidia’s market value surpassed those of fellow technology titans Amazon and Alphabet on Monday, an almost unbelievable feat accomplished as Nvidia’s stock more than quadrupled over the last 15 months as investors bought into Nvidia’s market-leading position in artificial intelligence. Nvidia stock's 17,000% runup o...

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Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy units

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Amazon's healthcare units, including One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, are conducting fresh layoffs as part of...
Amazon's healthcare units, including One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, are conducting fresh layoffs as part of a broader cost-cutting campaign, Business Insider has learned.The layoffs will impact "few hundred roles," Amazon's spokesperson confirmed in an email to BI.One person said roughly 115 positions may be elimi...

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My husband went through the Amazon Pivot process. It was crushing

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with the wife of an Amazon corporate worker...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with the wife of an Amazon corporate worker who was put into the company's performance-management program known as Pivot. This person spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing her husband's career. Business Insider has verified the worker's identity and hi...

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Ring will no longer allow police to request doorbell camera footage from users

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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon-owned Ring will stop allowing police departments to request doorbell camera footage...
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon-owned Ring will stop allowing police departments to request doorbell camera footage from users, marking an end to a feature that has drawn criticism from privacy advocates. In a blog post on Wednesday, Ring said it will sunset the “Request for Assistance” tool, which allows police departments ...

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