New coronavirus strain detected in South Africa

But the variant, called C.1.2, isn't rapidly circulating worldwide yet, which means Delta still has the upper hand, scientists say. | Continue reading


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Canva says employees will only need to come to the office 8 times a year

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Wearing ties may raise your risk of eyesight and health issues

Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5% and can also increase your risk of glaucoma and cataracts. | Continue reading


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"I feel like this is a big problem, and it's really easy to get sucked into and become spoiled," a school-district board member said. | Continue reading


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88-year-old prof resigns mid-class when student refuses to wear mask

Irwin Bernstein told the student he had underlying health conditions like Type 2 diabetes that make him more susceptible to harsh COVID-19 symptoms. | Continue reading


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Silicon Valley, Facebook Giving Up on Reality, Building Terrible Alternative

Recent massive investments into creating immersive digital worlds are a symptom of Silicon Valley leaders cashing out on the physical world. | Continue reading


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FB mistakenly disables acct for 7 months after user sets up QAnon support group

Facebook said it "incorrectly disabled" Rachel Sines' account after she made a support group for users whose friends and family had joined QAnon. | Continue reading


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One Amazon warehouse reportedly throws out 130k products a week

If a product isn't selling on Amazon, the cheapest option for third-party retailers is to pay Amazon to get rid of it. | Continue reading


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Amazon Veteran Charlie Bell Is Taking a Job at Microsoft

Bell recently left Amazon, part of a broader brain drain from the internet giant. Insiders said he was pursing a C-level role at another company. | Continue reading


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Delta-KLM Flight: Orthodox Jewish Girls Kicked Off over Covid-19 Breach

Dutch police were called to escort the teenagers off their flight to New York at Amsterdam after they refused to put their kosher food away. | Continue reading


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You aren't legally allowed to know which variant gave you Covid-19 in the US

Sequencing tests, which pick up on variants, have be federally approved before their results can be disclosed to doctors or patients. | Continue reading


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An office cat or dog can reduce stress levels

People with dogs are perceived as friendlier, so having an office pet may help improve your relationships with your colleagues too. | Continue reading


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Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue

An ex-Amazon worker claimed in a lawsuit that she suffered from a bowel condition and was fired before she could get a doctor's note. | Continue reading


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Taliban websites and WhatsApp groups suddenly go dark

Websites and social media have been integral communication tools for the Taliban and other extremist groups across South Asia and the Middle East. | Continue reading


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Rachel Maddow has reached a new deal to stay at MSNBC

MSNBC's most popular host had been considering leaving in what would have been a blow to the network. | Continue reading


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Apple and Google ordered by Russia to take down app of Putin's biggest opponent

The order appears to be the latest effort by the Russian government to silence the imprisoned Alexei Navalny. | Continue reading


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Frontline Financial Crisis Doc Introduced Everyone to the Term 'F9 Monkey'

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Google is right to cut remote workers' pay. Alternative is inequity

In the short term, cutting the pay of workers who relocate to cheaper cities is the right thing to do. (I've hired people on four continents.) | Continue reading


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Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees

Dozens of employees on Google's payments team have left the company in recent months, citing frustration with a stagnated product group. | Continue reading


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Google is dismantling its health division

Google is scattering its health teams across the company as Google Health chief David Feinberg departs for Cerner. | Continue reading


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A startup is making 'real' milk, cheese, and ice-cream *without cows

Perfect Day has been working on an alternative to plant-based milk products and cow's milk without having to exploit animals to produce it. | Continue reading


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Some white-collar workers are balancing 2 full-time jobs, earning $600k

Some workers with second jobs log in to two meetings at once or use paid time off from one job to work at the other, The Wall Street Journal reported. | Continue reading


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How one Dutch company is making vegan leather from mangoes

The cofounders of Fruitleather hope their company will reduce food waste while making the leather industry more environmentally friendly. | Continue reading


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Twitter investigated executive's too-harsh leadership style

Twitter's head of design tried to upend the company's nice culture, but The New York Times reports that he made employees cry in the process. | Continue reading


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I'm a landlord with 24 properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban

The US eviction moratorium now lasts through Oct. 3. It "ties the hands of hardworking landlords like me," says Julio Gonzalez. | Continue reading


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AI company making Tesla Cybertruck RV has hit $80M in pre-orders

Stream It wants to create a RV that'll provide a "Tesla-like experience," Lance King, CEO of Stream It and chief designer of the Cyberlander, told Insider. | Continue reading


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AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible

Sir Andrew Pollard said the highly transmissible Delta variant has shattered hopes of reaching herd immunity. | Continue reading


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Jeff Bezos and B. Gates paid almost $15M to fund a search for metals used in EV

KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, will hunt for metals needed for electric vehicles with mining firm BlueJay. | Continue reading


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SpaceX plans to launch a satellite that will beam adverts into space

The satellite's selfie-stick will film the display screen and the footage will be livestreamed on YouTube, GEC's CEO Samuel Reid told Insider. | Continue reading


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Amazon sellers are begging people to delete negative reviews

The Wall Street Journal spoke to an Amazon customer who was contacted repeatedly for months after leaving a bad review for a cooking-oil spray bottle. | Continue reading


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The US government failed the pandemic test. Now we need to care of each other

The pandemic showed how weak our infrastructure is in America, and why we'll have to rely on mutual aid going forward | Continue reading


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Israel Brings Back Covid-19 Restrictions Despite Vaccine Success

Israel has reintroduced some COVID-19 rules in a bid to prevent a lockdown, as cases of the Delta variant rise. It comes after a mass vaccine rollout. | Continue reading


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Mark Zuckerberg's Brutal Prank on Sequoia

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Elon Musk says Tesla wasn't invited to the White House electric-car summit

The White House is holding a summit on the future of electric vehicles but appears to have excluded the nation's top-selling electric-car company. | Continue reading


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50% would give up Amazon, Netflix for a year to be able to work remotely

More than 50% would give up Amazon, Netflix, or social media for a year, and more than one-third would give up voting rights, a survey by Breeze says. | Continue reading


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I used $23,000 from renters insurance to pay off my student loans

Kiersten Conway ended up with permanent damage to her hands, but the insurance money helped her make the best of a bad situation. | Continue reading


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How remote-working can make your office less racist

"I can live somewhere I actually feel safe," Sigourney Norman writes, adding that remote work can help tech companies reach their DEI goals. | Continue reading


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DeepMind Cofounder's Google Promotion Followed HR Complaints, Settlements

During his tenure at DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman was an executive who drove his team to great heights and, sometimes, great despair. | Continue reading


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Home Depot plans to sell power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen

"We certainly don't want to affect the 99.5% of our customers who are just there to pick up their hammers and nails," exec Scott Glenn said. | Continue reading


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Philippine President Tells Vaccine Deniers: 'You Can Die Anytime'

Rodrigo Duterte also said the police would send unvaccinated people back to their homes if they stepped out "because you are a walking spreader." | Continue reading


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Hedge Funds Get a Wake Up Call on the Risks of Investing in China

Hedge funds with big positions in Chinese companies will likely be proceeding with caution after the regulatory environment rocked markets, insiders say. | Continue reading


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'rain drones' in Dubai use electric shocks against clouds to trigger rain

Dubai is using "cloud seeding" tech to trigger rainfall — cloud seeding uses electric discharges created by drones to produce rain. | Continue reading


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LinkedIn will allow individual teams to decide if they ever want to WFH

LinkedIn has tweaked its hybrid-working plan and will now ask managers to make the call on whether their teams will return to the office. | Continue reading


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Founder of embattled electric truck startup Nikola charged with fraud

Trevor Milton stepped down from Nikola in 2020 after allegations of misleading investors rocked the electric-vehicle startup. | Continue reading


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2x Downwind speed with a land yacht: YouTuber bet a physicist $10k and won

A UCLA physics professor bet a popular science YouTuber $10,000 that one of his videos promoted fallacious physics. The YouTuber won. | Continue reading


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1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

The commerce giant has 950,000 employees in the US, where the total employed workforce is 151 million. | Continue reading


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Apple staff quit because of the company's stance against remote working

Thousands of Apple employees are discussing how they can force the company to soften its position on remote work, The Verge reported. | Continue reading


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The typical Costco shopper: a 39yo Asian American woman earning over $125k/yr

The typical Costco shopper visits roughly every other week — about 23 trips a year — and buys nine products for a total cost of about $114 per trip. | Continue reading


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