Just two weeks after Amazon pledged to radically reduce its company-wide carbon emissions, the head of its oil and…
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Over the next decade, U.S. banks, which are investing $150 billion in technology annually, will use automation to eli…
In the run-up to today’s global climate strikes, the major tech companies and their attendant luminaries have had…
On Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he was committing the world’s largest online retailer to meeting…
Mere days before Microsoft workers are set to walk out of their jobs and publicly call on their employer to reduce…
A middle-aged man, holding a tool from the machine shop, looking forlorn and wistful. That’s what we might call the…
On Tuesday, the automation-focused meme candidate Andrew Yang tweeted, “Fast food may be first.” He was commenting…
When Ilene Antelman arrived at a client’s Manhattan duplex in December of 2016, she was in a good mood. She was a…
We’re getting quite used to our algorithmic overlords. We’ve ceded, for the most part, that complex and invisible…
When 21-year-old Brandon Andrew Clark posted a series of graphic images on Sunday of the slain corpse of 17-year-old…
Amazon made waves when it announced late last week that it planned to spend $700 million to retrain one-third of its…
If you want to get a sense of who, exactly, automation is working for right now, well, there’s a study for that.…
Like self-checkout kiosks—perhaps even more so—automated phone menus are a prime example of shitty automation. They…
It’s early yet, but automation is already on track to become the most ignored issue this campaign cycle—outpacing…
Over the years, a number of companies have claimed to make “the first” smartphone-controlled, automated home grow…
Sometimes the pitch-perfect example that totally proves your argument falls directly into your lap approximately…
Tesla has long lurked in a category of its own in the self-driving car race; where Uber and Google’s Waymo are…
Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time,…
At Amazon’s shareholder meeting today, employees and investors voted on a wide-ranging spate of proposals, from banni…