Information Technology
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Amazon workers plan Prime Day strike despite $15-an-hour pledge
Jul 08, 2019 1:00 am - Amazon.com warehouse workers in Minnesota plan to strike during the online retailer's summer sales extravaganza, a sign that labor unrest persists even after the company...
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Elon Musk's satellites dot the heavens, leaving stargazers upset
Jul 08, 2019 1:00 am - Two days after Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 60 satellites in May as part of a mission to bring quick internet service to people worldwide, astronomers noticed something d...
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FTC to ask about disabling YouTube ads for kids' privacy
Jul 08, 2019 1:00 am - The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission asked children's privacy advocates whether having video creators on YouTube disable ads could resolve concerns the site is v...
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Lesson from driving a Tesla Model 3: Trust but verify
Jul 06, 2019 6:20 am - SAN FRANCISCO - My first "A-Ha" moment with the Tesla Model 3 came when I was fiddling with a hard plastic lid in the center console that just wouldn't stay shut. Every ...
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Samsung completes folding phone redesign after screen failures
Jul 06, 2019 6:18 am - Samsung Electronics Co. has completed a two-month redesign of the Galaxy Fold to fix embarrassing screen failures that forced its delay, people familiar with the matter ...
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Wearable technology soon could allow your boss to track your performance
Jul 06, 2019 6:09 am - The rise of wearable devices like the Apple Watch and Fitbit offer us the ability to turn our daily lives into an never-ending catalog of interpretable data: tracking ho...
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This seafood restaurant's latest catch: Robots that greet customers and deliver food
Jul 06, 2019 6:08 am - More than three decades ago, when John Soysal first started waiting tables as a young man, the restaurant industry was a very different place. Online reviews didn't exis...
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Troll patrol: How Amazon's Twitch is protecting its LGBT community
Jul 06, 2019 6:07 am - On May 25, Twitch, the livestreaming service owned by Amazon.com, came under attack. A band of anonymous trolls began flooding the service with pornography, copyrighted ...
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The power of Google and Amazon looms over tech IPOs
Jul 06, 2019 6:00 am - After a years-long drought, a wave of technology startups - Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and more - are going public, evidence that the sector is thriving. But there's a shadow...
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Commentary: Big Tech has dug a moat that rivals and regulators can't cross
Jul 06, 2019 6:00 am - As U.S. anti-monopoly authorities weigh possible investigations into America's technology superpowers, there is one advantage the government can't touch: the size, scale...