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Photo Amazon employees entering the company’s offices in Seattle. It recently became the most valuable retailer in the country. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are told to forget the “poor habits”…
Add eagles to the list of things that don’t like drones. An Australian drone operator found that out the hard way when a wedge-tailed eagle “punched” his high-tech toy right out of the sky. “This is the last thing a small bird sees when a Wedge-Tailed Eagle decides that you are dinner,” Adam Lancaster, the drone…
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Last year, San Francisco released BART Watch, an app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system. After filing a California Public Records Act request to see what people were reporting, the East Bay Express found a disturbing pattern: Of the 763 alerts sent to BART, 198 included a description of the race…
Post Author Credit By Staff The Associated Press WATCH ABOVE: Police raid Uber’s Hong Kong offices HONG KONG – Hong Kong police arrested five Uber drivers and searched the ride-hailing app’s office in the Asian financial centre. Police said Tuesday that officers posing as customers arrested the five drivers in an operation aimed at combating…
Two more Uber drivers were arrested yesterday, just hours after Hong Kong’s police chief warned of a further crackdown on the car-hailing service, following the arrests of five drivers and three company staff on Tuesday. As the battle for control of the city’s roads plays out, it emerged the police joined a meeting during which…
My boss brought up the infamous Cheerios tweet on my first day. Almost a year had passed, but it was still a cautionary tale: At 8:06 pm on a casual Wednesday night, a seemingly innocuous tweet was sent out and quickly caused a firestorm. Within 24 hours, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called for…
Advice if you want to work for Facebook: Don’t rock the boat. A student lost his internship with Facebook after provoking the company into updating its location sharing settings for Messenger. Harvard student Aran Khanna had an internship lined up at Facebook, but Khanna wasn’t going to sit around with his thumb up his butt…
There was a very long span of time — probably adding up to more than a decade, ending not so very long ago — in which one of the most important and defining aspects of my near day-to-day life included strategically posting a solid, hard-won jealousy pic (or three, or five, or several more) on the internet…
Barack Obama, slumped like a sullen teen, attempts to dunk a cookie in milk, only to realize with chagrin that the edges scrape haplessly against the cup’s rim. His snack game thwarted, the president mutters with a click of his teeth: “Thanks, Obama.” These few seconds of a Buzzfeed video, which has been viewed more…