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Report: Amazon Warehouses Called 911 for Mental Health Crises At Least 189 Times in Five Years

E-commerce giant Amazon has long been reported to be an unpleasant place to hold down a job. Article after article has relayed claims of an ultra-competitive workplace culture, employees being treated like soulless robots, sweatshop-esque performance requirements, and long hours of monotonous work. That includes mandatory seasonal overtime that some workers have said sometimes results…

Commerce Tom McKay

Amazon Workers in Minnesota Hold Overnight Strike for Better Conditions

Minnesota has become a hotbed of labor unrest within Amazon’s ranks, where a contingent of workers organized via local East African community group Awood Center first pressured the company’s brass to sit in on negotiations in November and staged a mass protest outside their facility a month later. Now, Awood is claiming another victory: rallying…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech Is Just the Beginning

Breaking up the tech giants is one of the few major issues that cuts across party lines in Washington, D.C., and it even reaches into Silicon Valley itself. Now that Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, has published a proposal on how to break up some of America’s tech giants including Amazon, Google, and Facebook,…

Tech Policy Patrick Howell O'Neill

Philadelphia Just Banned Most Cashless Stores, a First for a U.S. City

The city of Philadelphia has banned cashless stores, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, in a move that “will require most retail stores to accept cash” as opposed to credit cards or mobile devices. Despite the text on the U.S. dollar bill stating, “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private,”…

Tech News Tom McKay

Amazon Could Get $23 Million From Arlington Just for Being Itself

In New York, Amazon’s (scrapped) plans for a Queens headquarters were ultimately received with a derisive Bronx cheer. Legislators in Arlington, Virginia, however, have been more welcoming, going so far as to offer the company up to $23 million just to do what it does best: be really goddamn big. An agreement between Arlington County…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Amazon May Finally Have to Start Paying Taxes (in France)

A newly unveiled French tax proposal targets American internet companies like Amazon, a company notorious for paying zero federal taxes in the United States on multibillion-dollar annual profits. The French proposal promises to end tax avoidance at a time when Silicon Valley’s tax practices and tax avoidance schemes are coming under a close microscope around the…

Commerce Patrick Howell O'Neill

Amazon Appears to Yank Anti-Vaxxer Documentaries From Prime Video Streaming

Following an open letter from Representative Adam Schiff calling on Jeff Bezos to curb the promotion of anti-vaccination content and videos on Amazon, it appears his website has done just that. BuzzFeed News reported Friday that Andrew Wakefield’s Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is among a number of anti-vaxxer titles that no longer populate in…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon May Open an Entirely New Chain of Grocery Stores: Report

Less than two years after purchasing Whole Foods Market (WFM), increasingly not-online retail giant Amazon looks to be eying yet another chain of grocery stores, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Two grocery chains may seem like overkill to consumers, but WFM made its name on only stocking items within specific parameters—like its…

Commerce Avery Ellis

RIP Amazon Dash Button—You Died as You Lived, Sort of Unnecessary

Those quirky Amazon Dash buttons will soon be dead, gone, no more. Intended to be an easy way to reorder items, Amazon has now pulled them from sale worldwide and seems to be admitting that no one really needs them. When the Dash buttons were originally introduced in 2015, it was hard to believe they…

Commerce Victoria Song

Report: Amazon Cuomo Is Giving Jeff Bezos the Full Say Anything Treatment

Amazon may have left New York’s governor high and dry weeks ago, but Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo appears no closer to letting it go. The New York Times reported Thursday that Cuomo “is furiously working” to sweet talk the company back into a deal with New York for its HQ2 headquarters after Amazon dipped earlier this…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon’s New Plan for Fighting Counterfeit Crap Is Letting Brands Deal With It

Fake products aren’t a new headache for Amazon, but now the tech retailer is shifting its strategy on how to deal with them. In a blog Thursday, Amazon announced it will allow individual brands to directly remove counterfeit products themselves. The move is part of what Amazon is calling “Project Zero.” Under the program, Amazon…

Commerce Victoria Song

Amazon Is Now Ditching on Seattle Plans, Too

Amazon just gave the slip to yet another city. The company has officially listed a sublease for its floors in Seattle’s Rainier Square tower that were to be used as office space, according to a marketing flier obtained by GeekWire. In a statement to Gizmodo, an Amazon spokesperson said that the company is “currently building…

Commerce Catie Keck

FTC Rules Against Fake Amazon Reviews in Landmark Case

In the first case of its kind, the Federal Trade Commission took action against a diet pill seller for both making false claims and paying to juice their standing on Amazon with fake positive reviews. The fruit of garcinia cambogia has been hailed by some as a powerful weight loss supplement. Of course, there’s no…

Commerce Avery Ellis

The Federal Trade Commission Is Starting a New Antitrust Task Force Looking at Big Tech

The Federal Trade Commission is launching a new task force focused on the tech industry, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, with a broad anti-trust mission that will “include re-examining mergers that already have been approved by the government.” FTC Chairman Joe Simons wrote in a statement, “The role of technology in the economy…

Tech Policy Tom McKay

Amazon and Chase Are Still Confusingly Opaque About What They Do With Your Credit Card Data

Last month, I tried to find out what Amazon learns about people who have an Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card from Chase. Neither Chase nor Amazon would give me a straight answer. In fact, Chase’s spokesperson, Mary Jane Rogers, gave me a wrong answer in telling me that Amazon fell into a category that it…

Commerce Kashmir Hill

Fake FCC Comments, Shark DNA, and the Edge of Everything: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Hopefully your week has been better than leading New York politicians, like NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo—both of whom are still dealing with the disastrous fallout from the failed deal to subsidize a new Amazon facility in Queens’s Long Island City neighborhood. (Adding insult to injury: de Blasio, who has…

Tech News Tom McKay

Amazon Cuomo Is Mad as Hell

Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo appears to have fully embraced the anger phase of his process of grieving the loss of Amazon’s would-be HQ2 headquarters in Queens. Speaking with WAMC’s Alan Chartock on The Roundtable on Friday, the New York governor called the incident “the greatest tragedy that I have seen since I have been in government,”…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon Air Jet Crashes in Texas, With Three on Board Believed Dead

An Atlas Air Boeing 767 cargo plane crashed in a bay near Anahuac, Texas on Saturday afternoon with three people on board, according to multiple media reports and the Federal Aviation Administration. The flight, which was contracted to fly cargo for Amazon Air (formerly Prime Air), went down while flying to Houston from Miami. The…

Commerce Tom McKay

Even With HQ2 Dead, New York Isn’t Done Fighting Amazon

“This is just the beginning of what I’m sure will be somewhat of a long fight,” New York State Senator Jessica Ramos said addressing a small press gaggle on Thursday morning. Until recently that statement might have been a reference to the ugly and highly public fight to renegotiate Amazon’s disastrous HQ2 deal. Instead, the…

Commerce Avery Ellis

How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis

In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell Automation and Schlumberger Limited, announced a joint venture called Sensia. The new company will “sell equipment and services to advance digital technology and automation in the oilfield,” according to the Houston Chronicle. Yet the partnership has…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Merchant

Report: Amazon Warehouses Called 911 for Mental Health Crises At Least 189 Times in Five Years

Amazon Workers in Minnesota Hold Overnight Strike for Better Conditions

Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech Is Just the Beginning

Philadelphia Just Banned Most Cashless Stores, a First for a U.S. City

Amazon Could Get $23 Million From Arlington Just for Being Itself

Amazon May Finally Have to Start Paying Taxes (in France)

Amazon Appears to Yank Anti-Vaxxer Documentaries From Prime Video Streaming

Amazon May Open an Entirely New Chain of Grocery Stores: Report

RIP Amazon Dash Button—You Died as You Lived, Sort of Unnecessary

Report: Amazon Cuomo Is Giving Jeff Bezos the Full Say Anything Treatment

Amazon’s New Plan for Fighting Counterfeit Crap Is Letting Brands Deal With It

Amazon Is Now Ditching on Seattle Plans, Too

FTC Rules Against Fake Amazon Reviews in Landmark Case

The Federal Trade Commission Is Starting a New Antitrust Task Force Looking at Big Tech

Amazon and Chase Are Still Confusingly Opaque About What They Do With Your Credit Card Data

Fake FCC Comments, Shark DNA, and the Edge of Everything: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Amazon Cuomo Is Mad as Hell

Amazon Air Jet Crashes in Texas, With Three on Board Believed Dead

Even With HQ2 Dead, New York Isn’t Done Fighting Amazon

How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis

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