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Report: warehouse and storage jobs increase 30% two years after a county hosts an Amazon fulfillment center, but overall jobs see no increase; Amazon disagrees — How great an effect a tech company has when it moves into a new town comes down to one thing: jobs.| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
Amazon's warehouse expansion around San Bernardino, CA brought jobs but data shows Amazon's warehouse staff earn less than similar US workers employed elsewhere — SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—This community was still reeling from the recession in 2012 when it got a piece of what seemed like good news.
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| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft to stop offering the lightweight Windows 10 S as a separate SKU, will offer “S Mode” in all Windows 10 versions instead — When Microsoft announced Windows 10 S, it was immediately clear that this SKU didn't fit well into Microsoft's lineup.| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Dozens of people, rich from blockchain startups and cryptocurrency, try to build “Sol”, a Puerto Rican city where money is virtual and contracts are public — SAN JUAN, P.R. — They call what they are building Puertopia. But then someone told them, apparently in all seriousness …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Zero-day vulnerability in the current version of Flash is being actively exploited in the wild; Adobe plans to patch it next week — Adobe plans to have a fix for the critical flaw next week. — An increasingly sophisticated hacking group is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability … | Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
How Amazon may prevent Alexa ads from activating Echo devices: acoustic fingerprint comparison and inaudible sound signals — Amazon.com Inc. is advertising its Alexa-powered speakers in the big game on Sunday. It's an amusing 90 seconds that features celebrities like Gordon Ramsay …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches repair program for small percentage of iPhone 7 devices affected by a bug that shows no available cell service even when cell coverage available — Apple today launched a repair program for iPhone 7 devices that are impacted by an ongoing bug that causes them to have no available service … | Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
How sexist undercurrents, from a widely-used Playboy image to personality tests favoring men, turned Silicon Valley into a brotopia despite early women pioneers — Lena Söderberg started out as just another Playboy centerfold. The 21-year-old Swedish model left her native Stockholm …
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Former employee of Ripcord, a paper record digitization service, says she was fired after reporting harassment, asserts CEO made lewd comments about her — - A former female employee of high-flying startup Ripcord said she was fired after reporting harassment and a toxic environment at the company.
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| Paul Lewis / The Guardian: |
How YouTube's recommendation algorithm can promote divisive clips and conspiracy videos and may have spread disinformation during the 2016 election — An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency?
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Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, and Mashable
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Users in India shed light on the dynamics of family WhatsApp groups, which have become an integral extension of the families themselves — A still from Hum Aapke Hain Koun, a high-grossing 1994 Bollywood film that tells the story of large Indian joint families grappling with their values.
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| Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup halting credit card transactions with cryptocurrency exchanges; Bank of America debit card purchases not affected — A growing list of card issuers are declining crypto purchases — After recent price drops, JPMorgan doesn't want credit risk
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