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☆ The future of travel: 10 concepts that will change the way we experience the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Kate Springer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

Concepts that feel plucked from sci-fi novels and films are quickly making their way into mainstream travel, shaping every step of the journey. Seamus PayneLike air travel, eco-conscious hotels are paving the way for more sustainable travel in the future. HyperloopTTUS entrepreneur Elon Musk has been talking about hyperloop technology – an ultra-high-speed transport system in a low-pressure vacuum tube – for years. Meanwhile, Toronto-based TransPod hopes to bring hyperloop technology to Canada with its eponymous tube-based transportation system powered by renewable energy. By 2025, the company plans to build a 620-mile-per-hour TransPod link between Calgary and Edmonton, connecting the two cities in 45 minutes.

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☆ Bernie Sanders launches Senate probe into Amazon warehouse safety conditions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday launched a Senate investigation into working and safety conditions at Amazon warehouses, adding to federal scrutiny on the labor practices of one of the country’s largest employers. In 2018, following heavy criticism from Sanders, Amazon announced it was raising its minimum wage for US employees to $15 an hour. In his letter Tuesday, Sanders argued that Amazon warehouses “are uniquely dangerous,” and cited recent citations from the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration against Amazon. After inspecting three Amazon warehouse facilities, OSHA issued hazard letters in January related to injury risks from workers lifting packages. An Amazon spokesperson at the time said the company “strongly” disagrees with OSHA’s claims and intends to appeal.

Persons: CNN — Sen, Bernie Sanders, Sanders, ” Sanders, Andy Jassy, OSHA’s, Steve Kelly, Sanders ’, ”, ” Kelly, We’ve Organizations: CNN, Amazon, Labor, Occupational Safety, Health Administration, OSHA

☆ What the potential UPS strike could mean for your packages
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —A UPS strike by 185,000 workers 25 years ago brought the logistics giant’s operations to a standstill. Striking employees of UPS in Chicago in 1997, the last major UPS work stoppage. In a worst case scenario, a longer-term UPS strike could cause major disruptions to the US supply chain network. UPS and the Teamsters' union contract expires August 1. Small and medium-sized businesses lower in the pecking order than big-box chains would see the most delays from a lengthy strike, logistics experts say.

Persons: Jeff Haynes, ”, Cathy Roberson, Richard Drew, ” Roberson, Pitney Bowes, John Haber, “, Carol Tome, Sean O’Brien, ” O’Brien, Alan Amling Organizations: New, New York CNN, UPS, US Postal Service, FedEx, Teamsters, Getty, Logistics, Walmart, Target, ”, Transportation Insight Holding Company, CNN, University of Tennessee’s, Chain Institute, “ Locations: New York, United States, Chicago, AFP

☆ Amazon’s Freevee Embraces the Judy-Verse
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Brooks Barnes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2021, Judge Judith Sheindlin, the razor-tongued court show star, decamped from the dying medium of daytime broadcast syndication and joined Amazon for a streaming-era experiment. Fewer people were watching traditional daytime television, including programs like “Judge Judy.” Was it because they were tired of the content? To find out, the company hired Judge Sheindlin to produce and star in a new court show, “Judy Justice,” and made it available on Freevee, a little-known, free streaming service supported by advertising. “It was a risk,” Judge Sheindlin recalled over lunch this month, “but one that intrigued me.”“Judy Justice” quickly became Freevee’s No. As she builds a mini empire at Amazon, Judge Sheindlin is also adding to what has become known as the Nepo-Verse.

Persons: Judith Sheindlin, Judy, ”, Judge Sheindlin, “ Judy Justice, ” “ Judy Justice ”, Sheindlin Organizations: Amazon, Amazon Studios, Marvel, New York Locations: Culver City, Calif, Amazon, Hollywood

☆ Amazon reinstates Bessemer, Alabama warehouse worker and union face Jennifer Bates
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —An Amazon worker and union organizer has been given her job back after she appealed her firing by the e-commerce giant earlier this month. Amazon on Thursday confirmed that it had reinstated Jennifer Bates — who became the face of the effort to unionize an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama — following its appeals process. Bates had received notice of her termination from Amazon in early June. Amazon workers at a New York warehouse voted to form the company’s first US union last year, although Amazon has since refused to recognize the union or come to the bargaining table. Other efforts to unionize Amazon facilities, including one across the street from the New York warehouse, have failed.

Persons: Jennifer Bates —, Bates, I’m, ” Bates, Mary Kate Paradis, –, Catherine Thorbecke Organizations: New, New York CNN, Amazon, Wholesale, Department Store Union, CNN, National Labor Relations Board Locations: New York, Bessemer , Alabama, United States

☆ Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Samrhitha A | Chavi Mehta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

(Reuters) - Amazon.com said cloud services offered by its unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), were restored after a big disruption on Tuesday affected websites of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Boston Globe among others. FILE PHOTO: 3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. The outage also affected services at the U.S. securities regulator’s EDGAR system, Southwest Airlines, the Verge and AP for Students. United Airlines said that its operations were minimally affected, adding “we’re out of impact.”Other Amazon services like Amazon Music and Alexa were also impacted, according to Downdetector. Amazon had its last major outage in December 2021, when disruptions to its cloud services temporarily knocked out streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+, Robinhood, and Amazon’s e-commerce website ahead of Christmas.

Persons: Dado, Downdetector.com, Downdetector, EDGAR, Alexa won’t Organizations: Reuters, Amazon Web Services, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Boston Globe, REUTERS, Services, Lambda, AWS Lambda, Southwest Airlines, Twitter, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Amazon Music, Alexa, Netflix, Disney

☆ Amazon is trying to make it simpler to sift through thousands of user reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The effort, first reported by CNBC, marks Amazon’s latest attempt to incorporate generative AI into its services and has the potential to help customers quickly determine the pros and cons of various products. “Given that generative AI is based on probability, mistakes are possible … and summaries may not be an accurate reflection of customer reviews,” said Reece Hayden, a senior analyst at market research firm ABI Research. “These reviews will be treated equally and therefore the summary may reflect fake, non-customer reviews,” Hayden said. Amazon isn’t the only e-commerce company blending generative AI into the shopping experience. Some companies such as Shopify and Instacart are using the technology to help inform customers’ shopping decisions.

Persons: ”, Reece Hayden, ” Hayden, Andy Jassy, Dave Limp Organizations: CNN, CNBC, ABI Research, eBay

CNN —Like many adults, a lot of teenagers don’t know what they want to do when they grow up. Even when they think they do, they may not have a realistic grasp of whether a given occupation or job is likely to be economically viable for them over time. After assessing all those elements, the role is assigned a CFI score — the higher the number, the more economically viable a job is. The gap between popular occupations and viable onesThe Gallup-Amazon report identifies, among other things, how wide the gap is between a given career’s economic viability score and how popular its ranking is among 15-year-olds. For instance, among jobs that largely employ people without a bachelor’s degree, 27 careers score at or above the average score for positions typically filled by college graduates.

Persons: don’t, “, ”, Jonathan Rockwell Organizations: CNN, Gallup, Amazon, CFI, ” Gallup

☆ Podcast: Inside the race to replant the Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Listen to Jake Spring’s special report on replanting the Amazon with host Kim Vinnell. As the climate clock ticks down, it's fallen to non-profits to restore vast portions of Brazil's decimated Amazon Rainforest. But they're battling illegal land grabs, tight budgets, and some botanical mysteries. Further ReadingReplanting the Amazon could help save the world’s climate. Here’s why it’s so hard to doThe Amazon’s little tipping pointsAmazon rainforest: jungle labOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jake Spring’s, Kim Vinnell, it's Organizations: Apple, Google, Reuters, Amazon, Thomson

☆ Replanting the Amazon could slow global warming. Here’s why it’s hard
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +24 min

Milton da Costa Junior nosed his pickup through a remote stretch of the western Brazilian Amazon to check on his babies. Local authorities said the September 2021 incident, which Da Costa outlined in a police report that was reviewed by Reuters, is being investigated. Out of dozens of reforestation initiatives in the country, Rioterra and The Black Jaguar Foundation, a Brazilian-European group, are among the largest. Illegal invaders destroy in hours what it takes Rioterra or Black Jaguar a year to plant. In all, Black Jaguar has signed contracts with 26 farms and planted 326 hectares (806 acres) to date.

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☆ Amazon fires Alabama warehouse worker who led union push
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

And I’ve given every fiber of my soul into organizing Amazon these past three years,” Bates said in a statement Friday. Amazon workers at a New York warehouse voted to form the company’s first US union last year, though Amazon has since refused to recognize the union or come to the bargaining table. Other efforts to unionize Amazon facilities, including one across the street from the New York warehouse, have failed. The closely-watched union election at the Bessemer facility ended with the results too close to call due to hundreds of challenged ballots. “Amazon’s behavior must not go unchallenged, and workers in Bessemer, Alabama must have their rights protected under the law.”

Persons: Jennifer Bates, “, I’ve, ” Bates, ”, Bates “, Bates, ” Mary Kate Paradis, we’ve, Stuart Appelbaum, Appelbaum, ” Appelbaum Organizations: CNN, Wholesale, Department Store Union, Amazon, National Labor Relations Board Locations: Alabama, Bessemer , Alabama, United States, New York, Amazon

☆ Meta asks office workers to return to in-person work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The internet giant — which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — has asked that employees currently assigned to an office return to in-person work three days a week starting September 5. Meta employees who are designated as remote workers will be allowed to keep their remote status. “We’re committed to distributed work, and we’re confident people can make a meaningful impact both from the office and at home. In the post, Zuckerberg shared that the company’s internal analysis showed that engineers who joined Meta in-person performed better on average than those who joined remotely. Meta joins a wave of large corporations that have asked workers to return to in-person work for at least a few days per week this year.

Persons: —, “ We’re, We’re, ”, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta Organizations: CNN, Meta, Disney

☆ FTC, Amazon’s Ring Reach $5.8 Million Settlement on Alleged Privacy Violations
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( John Mckinnon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Amazon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Children’s Privacy Charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Amazon agreed on Wednesday to pay a civil penalty of $25 million to settle federal charges that it kept sensitive information collected from children for years, including their precise locations and voice recordings, in violation of a children’s online privacy law. It was the latest legal action in an intensifying regulatory effort to require some of the world’s largest tech platforms to better safeguard their younger users. The case, brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, centers on Amazon’s handling of the personal details it collected from children who conversed with Alexa, the company’s voice-activated virtual assistant. In a legal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, regulators said the tech giant had kept young people’s Alexa voice recordings indefinitely and used the data for business purposes like training its algorithm to understand children, violating the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

Organizations: Amazon, Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, Alexa, Western, of Locations: U.S, of Washington

☆ How Remote Work Connected Employees Making $19 an Hour and $80,000 a Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Emma Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eric Deshawn Lerma felt waves of anxiety when he sat down to tally the new costs in his routine since Amazon’s return to the office this spring. There’s parking. After all, he realizes that thousands of Amazon workers have no flexibility to work from home. Their jobs require them to go into warehouses to do physically taxing labor each day. “There are different rights and amenities afforded to my role.”He ultimately decided, though, that he would probably join virtually.

Persons: Eric Deshawn Lerma, Lerma, ”, “ Locations: Seattle

☆ Amazon corporate workers plan to stage walkout, citing ‘lack of trust’ in leadership
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Nearly 2,000 corporate workers at Amazon have pledged to walk off the job on Wednesday to signal a “lack of trust” in the company’s leadership, in what could be the most visible sign of dissent among the e-commerce giant’s office workers in recent memory. Organizers said they will also have a way for employees at other Amazon corporate offices to participate virtually. All told, Amazon has said this year that it is laying off some 27,000 workers over multiple rounds of cuts. At the same time, Amazon and other tech companies are trying to get workers into the office more. “Amazon must keep pace with a changing world,” the group wrote in a Twitter thread last week calling for the walkout.

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☆ 10 Things in Tech: Amazon’s guide to AI in different industries, Earth’s neighboring star, and workers look for less stressful jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In other news:Tech workers are searching for low stress jobs on social media. Tech workers are looking for less stressful jobs. But one Amazon worker said there's "no such thing as [a] high pay low stress job in tech." Love Love Love: Award-winning engagement photos from around the world. Email dsiu@insider.com or tweet @diamondnagasiu) Edited by Alistair Barr (tweet @alistairmbarr) in San Francisco and Hallam Bullock (tweet @hallam_bullock) in London.

☆ Amazon looks to adapt Alexa to the rise of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Limp did not elaborate on how generative AI could be used in Alexa products, but there are clear possibilities. The effort to continue updating the technology that powers Alexa comes at a difficult moment for Amazon. The Amazon Echo Pop lineup AmazonBut generative AI remains a key focus for the company. Amazon is also rumored to be planning to use generative AI to bring conversational language to a home robot. The concept remains a “hard technical challenge,” he said, but one that is “more tractable” with generative AI.

Persons: Alexa, ”, Dave Limp, “ We’ve, Limp, “ We’re, Siri, Cortana, ChatGPT, Star ”, “, ” Limp, Andy Jassy, “ There’s Organizations: CNN, Alexa, Big Tech, Amazon, Star, Echo

☆ Amazon Is Everywhere. That’s What Makes It So Vulnerable.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Noam Scheiber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Is there a more familiar sign of corporate dominance than the Amazon delivery van? Today, the Amazon vans are almost inescapable. But this seeming monument to Amazon’s strength is in some ways closer to the opposite: a symbol of its vulnerability. The vans are just the most visible piece of ‌the company’s vast delivery network. It has also made Amazon susceptible to a potent form of labor organizing — choke point organizing — in which workers threaten to hobble a company’s operations by shutting down key sites, known as choke points.

☆ Deep in the Amazon, scientists race to find unknown bat viruses
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Some scientific studies have found that deforestation causes stress in bats, and stressed bats carry more viruses and shed more germs in their saliva, urine and feces. It spiked following the highway’s construction, making the Amazon in the early 1980s a rallying cry for the global environmental movement. When examining spillover risk, scientists use the number of bat species in a given area as a key variable. When humans encroach on their habitat, and bat species commingle, the viral cocktail intensifies. “Odds of it being documented are very slim,” said Caio Graco Zeppelini, an ecologist and bat researcher at the Federal University of Bahia.

☆ 24 Best Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Sarah Grossbart | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +13 min

Father’s Day is June 19 and you’re still empty-handed, and unless you’re 8 years old, it’s no longer cute or acceptable to turn up with a handmade coupon book. For the golfing dadIf your dad is an avid golfer, an upgrade to his typical apparel is a solid gift choice. For the dad who loves long walksIf dad’s shoe collection is looking a little tired, consider a pair of Birkenstocks. And just in time for the big day, you can get a digital gift card delivered right to his inbox. For the dad who’s the life of the partyThe “king of all coolers” is how Los Angeles-based stylist Alison Deyette describes Yeti’s UV-resistant Roadie 24 Hard Cooler, which makes the polyethylene beverage tote a shoo-in for the best last-minute Father’s Day gift.

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☆ Amazon is changing how it gets packages to you
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon (AMZN) has traditionally operated one national delivery network that distributed orders from warehouses spread across the country. If a local warehouse didn’t have the product a customer ordered in, say, Detroit, Amazon (AMZN) would ship it from another part of the country. So in pursuit of boost its profitability, the company has created eight regions in smaller geographic areas designed to ship products over shorter distances. I don’t need same day or next day delivery for most things,” he wrote. Amazon also recently started adding a “frequently returned” badge on certain products on its website for customers.

☆ How Lyft’s new CEO is ‘copying’ his former boss Jeff Bezos to turn around the company
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Days after taking over as the new CEO of Lyft (LYFT) last month, Risher announced plans to “significantly reduce” the company’s workforce and stressed that the decision was his. The next week, Lyft (LYFT) revealed the extent of the layoffs: 26% of the staff, or more than 1,000 employees, would lose their jobs. It has lagged behind its chief rival, Uber (UBER), in recovering from the pandemic shock to business. And that really is Jeff Bezos,” Risher told CNN. “It’s not our focus to be part of somebody else’s company,” Risher said.

☆ When Books Go Viral
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Even if the bump turns out to be only an illusion, the collective joy will have been enough. Swiftie SleuthingThe Bigolas drama was not this week’s only strange collision between publishing and internet culture. Other pieces of pseudo-evidence: The book’s release date, July 9, is a lyric in the Swift song “Last Kiss,” and Swift referenced the date in a recent Instagram post announcing the re-release of her album “Fearless.” (The words “dear reader” in the Instagram post added fuel to the fire.) Bob Lingle, the owner of Good Neighbor Bookstore in Lakewood, N.Y., first heard about the Swiftie speculation in a Facebook group for independent booksellers. On Saturday morning, he posted to his bookstore’s TikTok account about the rumors and opened up pre-orders for the book, just in case.

☆ Young Cyber Companies Face Uncertain Economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( James Rundle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

Newer cybersecurity companies are grappling with uncertain economic conditions as they find it harder to raise capital, continue to trim their workforces and refocus on profits after long periods of chasing growth. Fed by a glut of venture-capital investment, many private cybersecurity providers hired widely and expanded their operations significantly in recent years. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors. Cybereason, a Boston-based security company, raised $100 million in Series G financing in early April, led by SoftBank. The company’s chief executive, Lior Div, was replaced by SoftBank executive Eric Gan, with Mr. Div taking on an advisory role.

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