Got something to ask the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist? Send it our way and we’ll put it to him In a 2015 Ted talk, Bill Gates claimed: “If anything kills over 10 million people over the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but …
Andy Jassy says company created top 100 ‘employee experience pain points’, while also defending workers’ wages and benefits In his first letter to Amazon shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy offered a defense of the wages and benefits the company gives its warehouse workers while also vowing to improve injury rates inside the facilities. Jassy, who took …
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‘This is the Mona Lisa of the digital world’, says crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi who bought the NFT in March 2021 Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi made headlines in March 2021 when he paid $2.9m for an NFT of Twitter boss Jack Dorsey’s first tweet. But his efforts to resell it have run aground, with a …
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Analysis: Musk’s past musings about Twitter show desire to reshape essence of its business model Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for more than $40bn It turns out he wasn’t in “goblin mode” after all. Last week Elon musk, in his characteristically antic manner, tweeted a series of suggestions for improving Twitter after he was …
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Tanya DePass did not know that a tweet would eventually lead to a career based around making a difference for underrepresented people in games One day in 2014, Tanya DePass was feeling the rage. She had been playing games for most of her life, since the time of Pong, ColecoVision, and the glory days of …
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On social media, a tendency to connect disparate news stories is causing many of us to lose our sense of reality As a child, in the back of the car on drives along the motorway, I would look for connections between the number plates on surrounding cars. How many started with an odd number? How …
Billionaire tech entrepreneur makes cash offer for microblogging site Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share in cash. More to follow… Continue reading… Billionaire tech entrepreneur makes cash offer for microblogging site Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share in cash. More to follow… Continue …
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E-commerce firm blames move on wage increases, hiring of workers and warehouse construction Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs by adding a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to the fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services. The Seattle-based company said the increase, which will take effect from 28 …
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In this week’s newsletter: What is it like to suit up and hand out vigilante justice as an actual caped crusader? Plus: five of the best comedy talkshow podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The Superhero ComplexWidely available, episodes weeklyThe phrase “real-life superhero” may sound …
Cybersecurity officials said the evidence suggests Russia is behind the tools – configured to target North American energy concerns Multiple US government agencies issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of the discovery of malicious cyber tools created by unnamed advanced threat actors that they said were capable of gaining “full system access” to multiple industrial …
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