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Google and Amazon Workers Fill Streets To Protest Israel's 'Project Nimbus'
“No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!” Those words echoed through the air outside Google’s New York City office as workers left for the day on Thursday evening. Outside, they faced a street packed with dozens of Google and Amazon employees opposed to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing project funded by the the government of Israel.
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Report lists Indigenous territories under greatest pressure in the Amazon
Men on horseback enter a protected Indigenous area, bringing along 100 head of cattle. Next to a village with no road access, inhabited by the Parakanã people, the men find what they were looking for: a deforested area. They abandon the cattle there and leave the protected zone without interacting with the Indigenous people.
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Amazon Introduced New Tactics to Combat The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Review Bombing - IGN
Review bombing by internet trolls has become a huge problem and has caused sites like Rotten Tomatoes to show user scores for films and movies that are far lower than they should be. To help combat that problem, Amazon has introduced a new delay tactic for its new shows like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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Amazon is closing 2 facilities with a total of 300 employees and reportedly scrapping plans for 42 new buildings
Amazon is starting to tighten its belt. The e-commerce giant announced Wednesday it was shutting down two delivery stations in Baltimore which employ a total of over 300 people, as first reported by local news outlet WMAR-2. An Amazon spokesperson told WMAR-2 the company will offer staff at the stations the chance to transfer to other delivery stations in the area. The spokesperson did not specify how many other stations there were, but said there were "several."
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How The Rings of Power Inevitably Removes Tolkien from His Creation
Every recommendation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s body of work sounds like it’s overselling it. For a lot of people, the walking and talking and eating is pretty boring, and the scenes where incognito warrior women doff their helms and stab vile sorcerer kings in their stupid faces are too few and far between. The Peter Jackson movies, which have come to be regarded as the definitive adaptation of the meaty central tale of Tolkien’s work...
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'Ring Nation' Is Amazon's Reality Show for Our Surveillance Dystopia
Amazon's propaganda campaign to normalize surveillance is about to hit a higher gear: Wanda Sykes is going to host a new show featuring videos taken from Ring surveillance cameras, Deadline reported on Thursday. It will be called Ring Nation.
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Amazon’s One-Stop Shop for Identity Thieves
IMAGINE IF A budding identity thief had a free, user-friendly, publicly searchable database that contained the name, location, date of birth, and mother’s maiden name of millions of people. Enter Amazon registries. We already know that Amazon collects plenty of personal information and data that can be arduous for its users to obtain, but the company also readily shares your information for anyone to access when you set up a registry.
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Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion
Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire iRobot, makers of Roomba robot vacuums. The deal is valued at approximately $1.7 billion, and Amazon will acquire iRobot for $61 per share in an all-cash transaction. “Customers love iRobot products — and I’m excited to work with the iRobot team to invent in ways that make customers’ lives easier and more enjoyable,” says Dave Limp, SVP of Amazon Devices. It’s not immediately clear how iRobot will be integrated into Amazon once the deal is finalized and cleared by regulators, but Amazon intends to keep Colin Angle as the CEO of iRobot.
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Amazon Drive is shutting down at the end of 2023
The company plans to focus more on Amazon Photos.
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Amazon is raising Prime prices in Europe by up to 43 percent a year
Amazon is raising the price of its Prime subscription across Europe in September by up to 43 percent a year. In an email to customers overnight, Amazon revealed its annual Prime cost will jump 20 percent in the UK from £79 to £95 from September 15th. In France the price hike is even more acute, moving from €49 per year to €69.90 — a 43 percent increase.
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Amazon is the No. 1 company to work for in 2022, according to LinkedIn
On Wednesday, LinkedIn released its annual Top Companies list identifying the 50 best places in the U.S. for professionals to grow their careers.
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Amazon might own your doctor’s office after latest acquisition
When Amazon launched Amazon Care to its employees in 2019, the goal was to test the product before rolling it out nationwide. After that rollout happened earlier this year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told Insider that the expansion would "fundamentally" change the health care game by dramatically enhancing the medical-care process. He predicted that patients in the future would be so used to telehealth and other new conveniences that they'll think that things like long wait times and delays between in-person visits commonly experienced today are actually "insane."
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Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage to Police Without a Warrant or Consent
RING, AMAZON’S PERENNIALLY controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended its cozy relationship with law enforcement by pointing out that cops can only get access to a camera owner’s recordings with their express permission or a court order. But in response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., the company stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone without either.
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Amazon Prime Day 2022: Best 22 deals you can find right now!
Every year we are delighted when we need to announce the new Amazon Prime Day! And here it is! Amazon Prime Day 2022! Amazon's annual Prime Day event is back.
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Amazon seals deal with Grubhub parent, Prime members get free delivery
Amazon Prime members can now order food from Grubhub without a delivery fee. The offer for Grubhub+ is good for one year, after which Prime members will automatically be charged the current $9.99 monthly rate for the service. There is a minimum $12 order to avoid the fee.
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EU forces Amazon to make it easier to cancel Prime subscriptions in Europe
Amazon has agreed to simplify the process of canceling Prime in Europe, meaning customers in the region will be able to end their subscription in just two clicks, the European Commission has announced. The changes, which were implemented as of July 1st, should bring to an end the “multiple pages” filled with “distracting information” and “unclear button labels” that Amazon has previously used to add friction to the cancellation process.
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Amazon Prime Day 2022: Best 22 early deals you can find right now!
Every year we are delighted when we need to announce the new Amazon Prime Day! And here it is! Amazon Prime Day 2022! Amazon's annual Prime Day event is back.
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Amazon Prime Day 2022: Best 22 early deals you can find right now!
Every year we are delighted when we need to announce the new Amazon Prime Day! And here it is! Amazon Prime Day 2022! Amazon’s annual Prime Day event is back. Two full days of incredible sales and discounts.
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Amazon shows off Alexa feature that mimics the voices of your dead relatives
Amazon has revealed an experimental Alexa feature that allows the AI assistant to mimic the voices of users’ dead relatives. The company demoed the feature at its annual MARS conference, showing a video in which a child asks Alexa to read a bedtime story in the voice of his dead grandmother.
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Amazon to launch Prime Air drone deliveries in California
Nearly a decade after Amazon began working on drone delivery, customers living in one small California community will soon be able to take advantage of the 30-minute air delivery service.
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