Tailors and dressmakers long ago worked out that men and women are different shapes and sizes. The news has yet to reach Palo Alto In November 2019, which now seems like an aeon ago, I wrote about an interesting correlation I had stumbled across. It was that the authors of the most insightful critiques of …
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Even Facebook and Google had their troubles when they first went public, so Deliveroo’s bad experience is far from unique Amazon listed on the Nasdaq at $18 a share with a market value of $438m in 1997, when it was just an online bookseller, with 256 employees. The share price rose gradually over the years, …
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Firm hit back at Congressman Mark Pocan for saying workers had to urinate in bottles, before admitting Pocan was telling truth Union leaders hope Amazon effort will boost US support Amazon has apologized to the congressman Mark Pocan, admitting to scoring an “own goal” in its initial denial of his suggestion that its drivers were …
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Digital art can be easily and endlessly duplicated, but non-fungible tokens allow buyers to confirm ownership The artist Kevin Abosch has sold a picture of a potato for $1.5m, made a neon sculpture inspired by cryptocurrency, and even sold his own blood on the blockchain. So in many ways, entering the world of non-fungible tokens …
NFTs are helping artists solve a vital problem: who owns digital artwork? Read More »
Vote in Bessemer, Alabama, is chance to informer younger generations about the role unions play, labor leaders say Counting is currently under way for the historic union election at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, and union organizers and leaders throughout the labor movement are hoping the effort will help galvanize support for workers and unions …
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Peter Rawlinson says Lucid, which is about to list for $24bn, has drawn interest from big carmakers The Lucid Motors boss Peter Rawlinson is fluent in the language of the new breed of electric carmaker: he wants to save the planet and he wants to do it fast. The California carmaker is only starting production …
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The Earth Optimism 2021 summit is showcasing practical conservation solutions. We look at the ways technology is making a difference Collaboration is key to developing new ideas, and scaling those solutions up is essential for making good progress in any field. This week, Earth Optimism 2021, a global summit hosted online until 4 April by …
Five great new green innovations – from pop-up rodent tents to tyre dust traps Read More »
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news that Prince Charles tested positive for Covid and was isolating in Scotland. In Athens it was memorable as the day the traffic …
Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe Read More »
Arbitrator rebuffed the company’s position that it wasn’t liable for drivers’ behavior given their status as contractors Ride share giant Uber must pay a blind passenger $1.1m following a discrimination claim that its drivers unlawfully denied her rides on 14 occasions, an arbitrator decided Thursday. This arbitrator rebuffed the company’s position that it wasn’t liable …
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Quality time together or the guaranteed path to a breakup? Either way, over the pandemic more and more couples have been giving co-operative video games a try Kristan Reed: “Oh God! Let’s never break up!” pleads Keza as we embark upon the divorcees-to-be shenanigans of It Takes Two, a kind of Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Parents-to-Fix-Their-Toxic-Marriage. I admit, I …
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