A robot sorts and stacks bins at an Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale on August 31, 2021. | Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images A new Amazon robot handles 1,000 items an hour. In 2019, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos...
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“The party is over”: How Meta and Google are using recession fears to clean house
An interior view of office space with an indoor climbing wall at the Googleplex, the corporate headquarters of Google, in Mountain View, California. | Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images It looks like the boom days are fading in Big...
Remote workers are wasting their time proving they’re actually working
A person visits an art installation titled “Garden of Eden” representing an abandoned workspace. | Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images “Productivity theater” is getting worse. People who work from home say they’re working, and numerous objective studies show that’s true. But many...
Why all Americans should be paying attention to Puerto Rico’s power grid
Utility crews begin repairs after Hurricane Fiona knocked out power to Puerto Rico. | Joe Jimenez/Getty Images Hurricane Fiona showed how improvement efforts remain hampered by years of neglect and mismanagement. The 3.1 million residents of Puerto Rico found themselves...
Who owns what in Big Media today
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez at the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in London, August 2022 | Niklas Halle’n/AFP via Getty Images How to track which media company owns your favorite show...