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Amazon workers form first US union

Employees of Amazon’s largest New York City warehouse have voted to unionize, overcoming the trillion-dollar company’s ferocious opposition, to become its first American workers to successfully organize. The vote came in on Friday, with 2,654 votes for and 2,131 against union membership, and while it remains to be officially certified …

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Amazon pockets biggest one-day value gain in US history

US e-commerce giant Amazon gained a record $190 billion in market capitalization on Friday, which is the biggest single-day increase in a company’s stock market value in US history, Refinitiv data shows. The company’s shares soared 13.5% after Amazon posted a blockbuster quarterly report late Thursday and said it would …

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Amazon sued over tornado-hit warehouse deaths

Amazon is being sued by the family of a delivery driver who was killed last month when one of its Illinois warehouses was destroyed by a tornado, with the family accusing the company of placing profits over people. 26-year-old Austin McEwan – along with five others – died after a …

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Amazon’s Alexa dishes out potentially deadly challenge

Amazon says it has updated its voice assistant after it transpired that Alexa had suggested a 10-year-old girl touch a coin to the prongs of a partially inserted plug as a challenge. The girl’s mother posted a tweet on Monday describing how her daughter had been doing some cold-weather indoor …

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Amazon patents show new level of surveillance

The tech giant has been developing its doorbell security camera system since 2018, when Amazon acquired the firm named Ring and, with it, the original technology. According to media reports, Jeff Bezos’ company is now preparing to enable the devices to identify “suspicious” people with the help of biometric technology, …

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Deadly tornadoes ravage nursing home, Amazon warehouse (VIDEOS)

Violent twisters touched down in Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky on Friday night, prompting widespread tornado warnings. The remnants of a nursing home in Monette, Arkansas – where two were killed and another five wounded – were seen in photos shared on social media, showing a massive emergency response in …

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Amazon down for thousands worldwide

There have been over 20,000 outage reports for the main Amazon site and 11,000 for AWS. The Downdetector heatmap shows the problem is most acute in eastern US.   As a lot of web infrastructure uses AWS to operate, outages have been reported on other services, from the McDonald’s app and …

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‘Anti-trans’ parody book tops Amazon’s LGBTQ+ best sellers list

‘Johnny the Walrus’ by conservative writer and Daily Wire host Matt Walsh shot to the number one position after pre-orders became available, beating other LGBTQ+ titles from such best-selling authors as Taylor Jenkins Reid and Adam Silvera. Praised as “hilarious” by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the book follows “a …

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Amazon execs stuck in middle of marijuana smuggling case

Unnamed Amazon India executives have been booked under the nation’s narcotics law, the police in the Indian central state of Madhya Pradesh said on Saturday evening, providing no information as to how many top managers were charged. Police reportedly arrested two men with 20kg of marijuana on November 14, saying …

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