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Amazon’s Worker-Crushing Megacycle Is Energizing a Battle

Amazon wanted its workforce to break its back for 10 hours straight, four nights a week, hauling boxes. It got what it wished. As a result, its labor pool is growing stronger by the day—just not to its advantage. Today, Amazon workers walked out of DIL3, a Chicago delivery facility. At this point, workers have…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Apr 7

Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, released a statement late Tuesday saying that he generally supports President Joe Biden’s desire to invest in infrastructure, along with a rise in the corporate tax rate. But some of the things Bezos doesn’t support in the statement are conspicuous in their absence. “We support the Biden…

Commerce Matt Novak Apr 7

Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests

The laundry list of fired organizers at Amazon has grown suspiciously lengthy, and the National Labor Relations Board has noticed. A regional director for the NLRB has found merit for two activists’ claims that Amazon unjustly fired them last year. From 2019-2020, user experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa prominently advocated for climate justice…

Earther Whitney Kimball Apr 5

Amazon Fixed the Echo Show 10’s Biggest Feature Failure

Amazon’s Echo Show 10 is a neat gadget for its ability to move with you while you stream videos and make calls to friends and family. But for a smart display whose entire reason for being its support for these uses, the Echo Show lacked one major app used universally during the pandemic: Zoom. When…

Gadgets Catie Keck Apr 5

How Big Meat Is Funding Climate Denial and Polluting the Planet

Move over, Big Oil, and make some room for Big Meat at the climate shame table. A new study shows agribusiness is a major source climate misinformation as well as carbon emissions. The analysis, published last month in Climatic Change, looks at the PR moves behind some of the world’s largest producers of meat and dairy,…

Climate Change Molly Taft Apr 5

Amazon Mumbles ‘Sorry’ for Denying That Its Workers Pee in Bottles, Says Uber and UPS Drivers Do It, Too

After lying about the fact that some of its workers are under so much pressure that they are forced to relieve themselves in bottles in order to meet their quotas, Amazon has quietly said it’s sorry in its own very weird way and acknowledged that drivers do in fact do this. It then promptly pointed…

Commerce Jody Serrano Apr 3

It Doesn’t Need to Be This Hard

A few people have asked me when we’re going to hear the results of the Bessemer, Alabama union election. The short answer is maybe next week. The long answer, factoring in appeals and litigation, is maybe months. In a more soapbox-y sense, the effects could unfold over years. This is a landmark moment, catalyzed in…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Apr 2

LexisNexis Is ICE’s Latest Doxing Tool: Report

LexisNexis—the data-harvesting company that you might know as a key tool for researchers and reporters across a cavalcade of industries—has signed a $16.8 million contract with Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE), the Intercept reported on Friday. The contract was initially scoped out by Mijente, a Lantinx advocacy group that had previously critiqued major tech companies…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky Apr 2

Amazon Was Reportedly Considering a Chain of Discount Stores Before the Pandemic Hit

Another purported casualty of the coronavirus pandemic has surfaced, folks: Amazon brick-and-mortar discount stores. Yep, the e-commerce giant considered opening up permanent retail locations to peddle unsold inventory before the world descended into lockdown, Bloomberg reported Thursday. While the fallout from covid-19’s spread has shuttered a record number of stores across America and recent consumer…

Commerce Alyse Stanley Apr 1

Amazon Accused of Working With Book Publishers In Price-Fixing Scheme

A small indie bookseller in Chicago is taking on Amazon with a new class action alleging that the e-commerce giant conspired with major publishers to keep prices high and competition low. The actual suit, which was filed last week, alleges that Amazon colluded with the Big Five in book publishing—Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House,…

Commerce Shoshana Wodinsky Apr 1

How 5G Could Drastically Change Your Job

As 5G connectivity becomes more widespread—fueled by its great hype machine—the wonders promised seem incomprehensible at times. Remote control of fleets of vehicles from hundreds of miles away. Squads of cars or trucks that move in perfect synchronicity, communicating with not just one another but with the road itself. Shopping in a store where you…

Internet Wes Davis Apr 1

Amtrak Made a Bigger Map

Amtrak released its new map today, and the trainscape is looking good, toot toot. After a year of service cutbacks due to the pandemic, the rail company has drawn new lines connecting dots all over the country. The expansion is hopeful, a “2035 vision” that hinges on securing a proposed $80 million investment from Joe…

Earther Whitney Kimball Apr 1

Microsoft Lands $22 Billion to Put Custom HoloLens Headsets on U.S. Soldiers

In late 2018, Microsoft struck a $480 million deal with the U.S. Army to deliver augmented reality headset prototypes based on its HoloLens system. Well, it appears the military is a fan because it’s inked a contract to get a whole lot more of them. As in, over 120,000 headsets worth up to $21.88 billion…

Tech News Victoria Song Apr 1

Amanda Seyfried’s Things Heard and Seen Trailer Is Audible, Visible, and Includes Things

Homeownership has its challenges in the best of times, but it’s even tougher when… uh…whatever the hell is happening in Netflix’s Things Heard and Seen is happening. So clearly Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body) and James Norton (The Nevers) move into this rustic farmhouse in Chosen, New York, which has a dark secret (as these things…

Trailers Rob Bricken Apr 1

You Know What? Good for Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson’s Star Warstrilogy seems less likely than ever today, seeing as how the director just closed a $450 million deal to make two Knives Out sequels at Netflix. And you know what? Good for him. In 2017, Johnson took the numerous story possibilites left for him by J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens and turned…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 31

Soon, Siri Won’t Be a Feminine Voice by Default

The latest update to the iOS 14.5 beta won’t fix all of our gripes with Siri, but it does introduce a few major changes for Apple’s digital assistant. For starters, Siri will no longer be feminine by default for English speakers. Instead, once iOS 14.5 is officially pushed out, iOS users will be prompted to…

Tech News Victoria Song Mar 31

Amazon Intended Its Army of Paid Twitter Sycophants to Be ‘Authentic,’ Have a ‘Great Sense of Humor’

Internal Amazon documents show that the company’s widely-derided Twitter “ambassadors” program was intended to be a different sort of laugh riot, according to the Intercept. Multiple Amazon executives on Twitter, as well as the company’s @AmazonNews, went weirdly aggro on the site last week ahead of a union vote at a company warehouse in Alabama.…

Commerce Tom McKay Mar 31

Say Goodbye to Painful Neck Strain With Belkin’s New Face-Tracking iPhone Stand That Always Points at You

Why spend $250 on Amazon’s new face-tracking, auto-rotating Echo Show 10 smart display when Belkin’s new Magnetic Phone Mount with Face Tracking turns your iPhone 12 into a self-standing screen with similar smart functionality (minus Amazon sneaking a camera in your home) for just $65? If you’ve ever had to crane your neck to follow…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 31

Amazon Says Those Twitter Accounts Are Fake, Which We Can All Agree On

As Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama near a ballot count for their union election, Amazon is engaged in another sweep of last-ditch efforts to salvage the company’s reputation as a GREAT workplace and it made another thwarted attempt to micro-monitor the ballot count. All around, it’s a bad look for Amazon, but this is a…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Mar 30

There’s Something Fishy About Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated]

Have you noticed a strange army of Amazon employees on Twitter recently, claiming that Amazon doesn’t engage in union-busting and disputing stories that workers sometimes have to piss in bottles? Many Twitter users are wondering whether the people are even real. And while there’s some evidence these people could be real, at least one of…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 29

Amazon’s Worker-Crushing Megacycle Is Energizing a Battle

Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests

Amazon Fixed the Echo Show 10’s Biggest Feature Failure

How Big Meat Is Funding Climate Denial and Polluting the Planet

Amazon Mumbles ‘Sorry’ for Denying That Its Workers Pee in Bottles, Says Uber and UPS Drivers Do It, Too

It Doesn’t Need to Be This Hard

LexisNexis Is ICE’s Latest Doxing Tool: Report

Amazon Was Reportedly Considering a Chain of Discount Stores Before the Pandemic Hit

Amazon Accused of Working With Book Publishers In Price-Fixing Scheme

How 5G Could Drastically Change Your Job

Amtrak Made a Bigger Map

Microsoft Lands $22 Billion to Put Custom HoloLens Headsets on U.S. Soldiers

Amanda Seyfried’s Things Heard and Seen Trailer Is Audible, Visible, and Includes Things

You Know What? Good for Rian Johnson

Soon, Siri Won’t Be a Feminine Voice by Default

Amazon Intended Its Army of Paid Twitter Sycophants to Be ‘Authentic,’ Have a ‘Great Sense of Humor’

Say Goodbye to Painful Neck Strain With Belkin’s New Face-Tracking iPhone Stand That Always Points at You

Amazon Says Those Twitter Accounts Are Fake, Which We Can All Agree On

There’s Something Fishy About Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated]

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