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Was the Pentagon’s Cloud Computing Project Rigged?…

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At what point does lobbying cross over into the realm of crony capitalism and rigging the system? That’s a question many tech companies and the U.S. Congress are asking amid concerns that the bidding process for the Department of Defense’s cloud computing project has been fixed in favor of Amazon. The controversy began when the […]

Bernie Sanders to Billionaire Jeff Bezos: ‘Pay your workers a living wage’…

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One particular salary has irked Sen. Bernie Sanders: He cites Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes $275 million a day, this according to Time magazine. “Jeff Bezos has so much money that he says the only way he could possibly spend it all is on space travel. Space travel. Have you ever heard of such a […]

Amazon Paying People to Tweet About How Their Working Conditions Don’t Suck…

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Amazon’s warehouse conditions aren’t awful, despite numerous reports from employees — or at least that’s what the tech giant’s small, paid Twitter army is attempting to promote. Amazon is paying a small team of Twitter users to combat the negative publicity the company is receiving on the social media platform about the working conditions in […]

Amazon’s Facial Recognition Tech Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Arrest Mugshots…

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Amazon Rekognition, the controversial facial recognition tool from the Silicon Valley tech giant, has falsely matched 28 members of US Congress with mugshots in its database, a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union revealed today. “These results demonstrate why Congress should join the ACLU in calling for a moratorium on law enforcement use […]

Facebook Reveals It Shared Your Data with 52 Companies, Including Foreign Corporations…

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Facebook has confirmed that it shared user information with 52 companies that manufacture hardware and software, including some based in China. The social media giant made the disclosure in a 747-page report it provided Friday to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The list features major American tech companies such as Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. […]

Facial Recognition Software Is Not Ready for Use by Law Enforcement…

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Recent news of Amazon’s engagement with law enforcement to provide facial recognition surveillance (branded “Rekognition”), along with the almost unbelievable news of China’s use of the technology, means that the technology industry needs to address the darker, more offensive side of some of its more spectacular advancements. Facial recognition technologies, used in the identification of […]

Facebook, Amazon, Google And Twitter All Work With Extreme Left-Wing SPLC…

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Four of the world’s biggest tech platforms have working partnerships with a left-wing nonprofit that has a track record of inaccuracies and routinely labels conservative organizations as “hate groups.” Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter all work with or consult the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in policing their platforms for “hate speech” or “hate groups,” […]

Amazon Has More Than 100k Automated Warehouse Robots…And Growing…

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Amazon’s fleet of automated warehouse robots, now more than 100,000 machines strong, is working alongside human employees to help meet the e-commerce giant’s massive fulfillment demand. The company’s robots carry inventory around massive warehouse floors, compiling all the items for a customer’s order and reducing the need for human interaction with the products. But the […]

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