Enlarge / Amazon’s orange-yellow logo wall. reader comments 119 with 55 posters participating Share this story A senior manager at Amazon Web Services has filed suit against the company alleging race and gender discrimination, saying that she was underpaid, denied promotions, and sexually assaulted at the firm. Charlotte Newman, who is Black, began working at ..
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reader comments 58 with 31 posters participating Share this story On Friday, the Biden administration announced it had fulfilled the requirements of one of the executive orders issued on the very first day of his presidency: determining what’s called the “social cost of carbon.” This figure tries to capture the cumulative economic value achieved by ..
reader comments 140 with 76 posters participating Share this story The founder of the far-right social media platform Gab said that the private account of former President Donald Trump was among the data stolen and publicly released by hackers who recently breached the site. In a statement on Sunday, founder Andrew Torba used a transphobic ..
Enlarge / A machine makes respiratory masks in a family-owned medical equipment factory in north Miami, Florida, on February 15, 2021. The firm now has 30 million unsold masks because it can’t find buyers in the United States. reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Even though ..
Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 67 with 55 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile has cut at least 5,000 jobs since completing its acquisition of Sprint despite promising that the merged company would start creating new jobs “from day ..
reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating Share this story TikTok parent company ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million deal to settle class-action lawsuits alleging that the company illegally collected and used underage TikTok users’ personal data. The proposed settlement (PDF) would require TikTok to pay out up to $92 million to members of ..
Enlarge / The US and Texas flags fly in front of high-voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan reader comments 445 with 172 posters participating, including story author Share this story A Texas woman who was charged $9,546 for power this month has filed a class-action lawsuit ..
Enlarge / Snow outside of a Best Buy store in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Feb. 17, 2021. Nick Oxford/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 93 with 77 posters participating Share this story Best Buy says it has trimmed its headcount by 21,000 over the last year as the pandemic has accelerated the company’s transition to ..
Enlarge / Google, by night. reader comments 32 with 21 posters participating Share this story Google is reportedly promising that it will change its research review procedures this year in its AI division in an apparent bid to restore employee confidence in the wake of two high-profile firings of prominent women from the division. Reuters ..
Enlarge / The Federal Reserve Building in Washington, DC. reader comments 25 with 19 posters participating Share this story Federal Reserve electronic systems that enable US banks to send each other electronic payments experienced a massive outage on Wednesday afternoon. A Fed statement attributed the outage to an “operational error” but didn’t provide much more ..
