Amazon just made Prime even harder to cancel

Just as the rest of retail finally caught on to two-day shipping, Amazon is upping the ante to one-day. | Continue reading


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Amazon's worker tracking system can fire people without human interaction

Hundreds of Amazon workers have been fired over productivity at just one warehouse in one year. | Continue reading


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A woman's infection turned out to be bees living in her eye feeding on her tears

The doctor treating her said: "I saw something that looked like insect legs, so I pulled them out". The bees were found feeding from her tear ducts. | Continue reading


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Amazon's giant 'dystopian' delivery-drone blimp isn't real yet

Before you freak out, the video is fake. It was created by a tech-savvy Twitter user based on an actual Amazon patent. | Continue reading


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Robot Bartender That Dances When It Gets Bored

After customers order drinks through an app, the robot bartender opens a bottle of wine and pours up to four glasses at a time. | Continue reading


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Women's club the Wing quietly stopped banning men after a man filed suit

The Wing quietly dropped its no-men rule after a 53-year-old man brought a gender discrimination lawsuit seeking damages of up to $12 million against it. | Continue reading


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Prosecutors say California utility PG&E could face murder charges for wildfires

California prosecutors are poised to charge the state's largest utility company, PG&E, with an array of crimes, including murder and manslaughter. | Continue reading


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Millennials are killing countless industries – but mostly because they're poor

Millennials have been blamed for killing plenty of industries. But according to the Federal Reserve, it's not their fault. | Continue reading


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Eric Schmidt listed the '3 big failures' he sees in tech startups today

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said tech startups need to be more diverse, less product driven, and more willing to partner up early. | Continue reading


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Inside Uber before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian

Employees and documents described dysfunctionality in Uber’s self-driving car unit, with some issues that these employees say continue to this day. | Continue reading


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12 notable VC-backed startup failures of 2018

Theranos was by the far the biggest startup to close in 2018, but it wasn't the only one. See what other startups failed in the realm of robotics, smart suitcases, and developer software. | Continue reading


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The 25 best countries in the world to be an entrepreneur starting a company

The World Economic Forum ranked each country according to its business environment and innovation. If you're looking for the best place to build a business, you may not have to look far. | Continue reading


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Apple, Google execs named to Saudi Neom advisory board

A senior executive from Google's parent company, ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and famed investor Marc Andreessen are all on the list. | Continue reading


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Google's cutting-edge artificial-intelligence unit is costing millions

Google's DeepMind is making breakthroughs in artificial-intelligence research and in using the technology for healthcare, but hiring top-tier doctors, academics, and researchers costs an awful lot of money. | Continue reading


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A Nobel Prize winner sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills

In 1988, Leon Lederman won a Nobel Prize for his work in physics. The University of Chicago professor auctioned off his medal in 2015 for $765,000 to help cover medical bills. He died on Wednesday at 96. | Continue reading


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Top mathematician says he solved 'single most important open problem' in math

Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah claimed he solved the "most important open problem" in maths, the Riemann hypothesis. At a lecture in Germany on Monday he presented his solution, which needs to be published and reviewed before he can claim a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathem … | Continue reading


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Amazon plants fake packages in delivery trucks to 'trap' drivers who steal

Amazon plants empty packages with fake labels in the trucks of delivery drivers to catch drivers who are stealing, sources told Business Insider. "It's meant to be a trap ... to check the integrity of the driver," a former Amazon logistics manager told Business Insider. | Continue reading


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Google Cloud's new AI chief is on a task force for AI military uses

Andrew Moore, the dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon is co-chairman of a task force that studies the national security implications pertaining to artificial intelligence. The other co-chair is Robert Work, the father of the military surveillance program, Project Maven. | Continue reading


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Sheryl Sandberg's opening statement to Congress: 'We were too slow'

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will testify before a US Senate select committee on election interference on Wednesday. | Continue reading


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5G is the 'largest existential threat to broadband providers

BI PRIME: 5G isn't going to feel that much different from 4G LTE. But it has the opportunity to disrupt the cable industry. | Continue reading


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Tesla hit Model 3 target by reworking thousands of cars – INSIDER

Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target | Continue reading


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Apple Is Privately Pushing Paid App Developers to Move to Subscriptions

BI Prime: Apple is trying to change the business model of the App Store from in-app purchases and paid apps to software-as-a-service. To help kickstart this, in 2017 it held a secret conference and encouraged developers to experiment with raising the prices of their software. | Continue reading


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A new report from the Federal Reserve found that New Yorkers who live in high-income neighborhoods tend to experience fewer subway delays, while lower-income riders are disproportionately impacted by train delays. | Continue reading


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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes reportedly seeking investors for new company

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of the embattled blood-testing startup Theranos, was charged with "massive fraud" by US regulators earlier this year. Now, she's looking for investors for a new startup. | Continue reading


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