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On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will bar "mega-retailers" like Amazon, from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas, according to the San Francisco Gate. Mega-retailers, those companies that employ more than 1,000 warehouse workers, will now have to disclose how their algorithms judge worker productivity.

Costco (COST), home of the ultimate big box store, is not mincing words about what it's like to run a consumer business in the middle of a pandemic. "Inflationary factors abound: higher labor costs, higher freight costs, higher transportation demand, along with container shortages and port delays, increased demand in certain product categories, various shortages of everything from computer chips to oils and chemicals, higher commodities prices," Chief Financial Officer Richard Gal...

Recall that Lightning Network is a second level Bitcoin network. In fact, it is an add-on on top of the main BTC blockchain, which only fixes the results of multiple transactions after they are completed. The advantages of LN are the high speed of transactions due to the characteristics of the network and the low cost of sending coins.

“It didn't feel like she was being treated like a human being.” A former member of Britney Spears’ security team is alleging in a new documentary that the pop star was under constant surveillance during her conservatorship, including monitoring all communication on her phone and placing an audio recorder in her bedroom.

One of the biggest features of iOS 15 finally looks set to be released, according to a new Apple update. When Apple introduced the new version of the iPhone operating system in June, one of its flagship features was SharePlay, which allows people to watch films or TV shows together over FaceTime. But when iOS 15 was released, on Monday, it was missing.

Space races are supposed to be won in engineering labs or up in orbit. Thanks to Jeff Bezos, the next one might be won in a courtroom or regulator’s office.

If you need convincing that Elizabeth Holmes is a person with feelings, and not a villain out for blood, just look through her text messages. “You are breeze in desert for me,” she sent Ramesh Balwani, her business partner and boyfriend, in 2015. “My water. And ocean.” Even when Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou was investigating her medical-testing company, Theranos, Holmes still had love on her mind. “Was thinking about you this morning,” she texted Balwani that June. Bal...

Toyota Motor will invest JPY1.5trn (USD13.6bn) in research and development for electronic vehicle’s (EV) battery, marking the start of a major shift from the automaker’s decades-long hybrid EV production. The Japanese automaker was the major pioneer in introducing hybrid EV (HEV) which combines combustion engine with battery that resulted in more efficient energy use and lowering emission.

Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears’ have been friends since a very young age, and now their friendship is stronger than before. On Tuesday, Britney posted a throwback photo on Instagram from the 2015 Billboard Music Awards where the two performed together.

Using a robot vacuum has always been a bit hazardous for pet owners. Leaving a robovac to do its thing in your absence can be a problem if your less-than-perfectly-trained dog or cat also does its thing while you’re out. A quick Google of “Roomba dog poop” gives you some idea of what the outcome can be, as unheeding robots with spinning brushes barrel into the mess and proceed to spread it liberally around the house.

Earning the "top-dog" title in a niche as competitive as the gaming one is no small feat. Managing to actually do that consistently across four generations of smartphones seems almost impossible. Yet, despite some turmoil along the way and a few polarizing decisions in the latest ROG Phone 5, we still believe Asus is the only one out there that can claim this monumental achievement.

America's National Security Agency has published an FAQ about quantum cryptography, saying it does not know "when or even if" a quantum computer will ever exist to "exploit" public-key cryptography. In the document, titled Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Cryptography, the NSA said it "has to produce requirements today for systems that will be used for many decades in the future."

Good evening. I’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, Aug. 31. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.

The average person is losing about 2.2 years of life expectancy due to air pollution, according to new research by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute.

Millions of people are poised to lose their unemployment benefits this weekend, when federal pandemic-era policies will end. Congress authorized a historic expansion of the country’s safety net for jobless individuals in March 2020 to manage the fallout of the Covid-fueled economic downturn.

The Marvel star Brie Larson, who plays Carol Denver in Captain Marvel, has been working on self-growth. Both personal and emotional. The actress is focusing and has stopped trying to please everyone for the sake of being nice. She has worked on her mindset and is now more vocal about her feelings, caring less about what others may feel like and getting her message across.

Cream Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFI) platform, recently reported that its cryptocurrency wallet has been hacked. Hackers claimed to have stolen over $29 million in cryptocurrency assets! In a tweet earlier today, the company confirmed the hack, stating the extent of damage and the stolen amount. The tweet came an hour after PeckShield, a blockchain security firm, noticed signs of an ongoing crypto-heist.

Toyota has suspended use of all of its self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Tokyo Paralympic Games village. That announcement coming on Friday, a day after one of the vehicles collided with a visually impaired athlete.

It feels necessary to begin this review with a disclaimer that I have absolutely no desire to be part of the ongoing Ted Lasso discourse whipping its way across the internet like a wildfire (if you’ve missed it, spare yourself). Initially, I worried that my headline calling last week’s episode “worrisome” would inspire aggressive defensiveness from the show’s fans who would read concern as condemnation.