Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Justice Dept. Suit Says Facebook Discriminates Against U.S. Workers The lawsuit adds to Facebook’s woes in Washington, where the social network also faces antitrust questions. Outside the headquarters of Facebook, which the Justice Department accused of favoring immigrants over Americans when hiring.Credit…Jason […]
SEATTLE — The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday rejected Amazon’s bid to delay a hearing on the union drive of Alabama workers into January, as the e-commerce giant signals its willingness to vigorously battle employees trying to organize. Bessemer warehouse workers notified the NLRB last week that they want to hold an election to […]
As Bungie looks beyond “Destiny” toward new projects, it helps to remember the “secret behind every Bungie game, past present and future,” said CEO Pete Parsons. “There’s three things, all you need to know. First, it’s a place you want to spent time in,” Parsons told The Washington Post. “Second, it’s filled with a bunch […]
Reuters Salesforce has agreed to buy workplace messaging app Slack for $ 27.7bn (£20bn) in what would be one of the biggest tech mergers in recent years. Marc Benioff, boss of the business software giant, called the deal a “match made in heaven”. He has been pushing to expand the company’s software offerings and fend […]
SAN FRANCISCO — For close to a decade, supporters of the chip technology that powers mobile phones vowed to shake up the market for computers. For the most part, they made little headway. Now that finally seems to be changing, in a potential power shift over the direction of the computer industry. The change is […]
Bitcoin is back. Again. Nearly three years after it went on a hair-bending rise and hit a peak of $ 19,783, the price of a single Bitcoin rose above that for the first time on Monday, according to the data and news provider CoinDesk. The cryptocurrency has soared since March, after sinking below $ 4,000 […]
Casp/DeepMind/TagliabracciTomchick,UTSouthWestern One of biology’s biggest mysteries has been solved using artificial intelligence, experts have announced. Predicting how a protein folds into a unique three-dimensional shape has puzzled scientists for half a century. London-based AI lab, DeepMind, has largely cracked the problem, say the organisers of a scientific challenge. A better understanding of protein shapes could […]
Getty Images Telecoms providers must stop installing Huawei equipment in the UK’s 5G mobile network from September, the government has said. The announcement comes ahead of a new law being unveiled on Tuesday, which bans the Chinese firm from the network. Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden said he was pushing for the “complete removal of high-risk […]
Tony Hsieh, an e-commerce entrepreneur who built Zappos into an online shoe and clothing retail giant and became an influential figure in technology and management circles, before stepping down as chief executive in August, died Nov. 27. He was 46. His death was announced in a statement by Zappos chief executive Kedar Deshpande. Mr. Hsieh […]
Getty Images How much do political parties know about you – and how is it used to try to sway your vote? The Cambridge Analytica scandal threw light on how the Facebook data of millions was harvested and turned into a messaging tool. The revelations were criticised far and wide by politicians of all stripes. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — One by one, they left. Some quit. Others were fired. All were Black. The 15 people worked at Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency start-up, where they represented roughly three-quarters of the Black employees at the 600-person company. Before leaving in late 2018 and early 2019, at least 11 of them informed […]
Earlier this year, fans of one of PlayStation Vita’s few first party exclusives, “Killzone: Mercenary,” suddenly found themselves unable to connect to multiplayer. The game came out in late 2013, and the Vita itself is older still; production on new units had concluded in 2019. Players feared that Sony had shut down the game’s multiplayer […]
SEATTLE — Amazon has embarked on an extraordinary hiring binge this year, vacuuming up an average of 1,400 new workers a day and solidifying its power as online shopping becomes more entrenched in the coronavirus pandemic. The hiring has taken place at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, at its hundreds of warehouses in rural communities and […]
At lunchtime on Oct. 28, Colleen Cargill was in the cancer center at the University of Vermont Medical Center, preparing patients for their chemotherapy infusions. A new patient will sometimes be teary and frightened, but the nurses try to make it welcoming, offering trail mix and a warm blanket, a seat with a view of […]
North American esports has its first $ 6 million man. TSM has signed Hu “SwordArt” Shuo-Chieh to a two-year contract that will pay him $ 3 million for both 2021 and 2022, giving the professional “League of Legends” player what is believed to be the richest salary in the LCS and among any esports team […]