China hits Alibaba with record $2.8 billion fine for behaving like a monopoly
China has ordered Alibaba to pay a record fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) after antitrust regulators concluded that the online shopping…
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Alibaba’s record fine is a ‘warning shot’ in China’s tech crackdown
Alibaba is trying to draw a line under accusations that it behaved like a monopoly after Chinese regulators hit the online shopping giant with a…
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Pet Pals: Gus needs a good home
He’ll need a little TLC, but should be a great family pet. He’s waiting at the Humane Society of Central…
Continue ReadingFacebook will not notify the 533 million users exposed in online database
Facebook does not plan to notify its customers who may be among the half a billion users whose personal information was exposed after being posted to…
Continue ReadingAmazon workers vote against union at Alabama warehouse
Amazon has defeated a union drive that would have established the company’s first US union. The vote count against unionization totaled 1,798,…
Continue ReadingAlphabet employees demand company do more to stop harassment at work
Employees are speaking out against Alphabet, Google’s parent company, arguing the tech giant must do more to protect employees from workplace…
Continue ReadingAmazon defeated the union vote. What happens next?
Amazon has soundly defeated a landmark union drive that would have established the company’s first US union, but labor advocates are hopeful…
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Most C.O. home prices still soaring, but Redmond’s took a huge 10% jump in March
Tight supplies of new homes amid strong demand are common these days in many areas of the country, and on the High Desert, they keep sending prices…
Continue Reading$200,000 streaming rigs and millions of views: inside the cottage industry popping up around SpaceX
For a few hours one recent Saturday, Jack Beyer stood on the roof of his Land Rover, watching as SpaceX employees toiled under a 160-foot-tall silver…
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Furry Friends: ‘Kreacher’ is a fun little chihuahua
Harry Potter fans alert! ‘Kreacher’ is a 7-year-old chihuahua waiting for a new home at Redmond’s BrightSide Animal Center. He loves to be cuddled…
Continue ReadingElon Musk’s Neuralink claims monkeys can play Pong using just their minds
Neuralink, the implant company owned by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has released a video in which a monkey appears to play the computer game Pong…
Continue ReadingAmazon gains enough votes to defeat union drive at Alabama warehouse
Amazon has gained enough votes to defeat a union drive that would have established the company’s first US union, according to an ongoing tally…
Continue ReadingIt’s never been easier to start a social network. Succeeding is another story
Former President Donald Trump lost his most-prized megaphone when he was suspended from Facebook and Twitter earlier this year. Since then,…
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Terrebonne dog, attacked by pit bull, recovering back home after surgery
A dog from Terrebonne is recovering at a Redmond vet clinic after being attacked by a stray or unleashed pit bull in…
Continue ReadingAmazon union votes are still being counted but there’s already a controversy
In most situations, a mailbox is just a mailbox. But in the milestone union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a mailbox installed…
Continue Reading500 million LinkedIn users’ data is for sale on a hacker site
Information scraped from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles is part of a database posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the…
Continue ReadingSnap and Twitter are backing India’s answer to TikTok
Snap and Twitter are among a group of investors that have just poured half a billion dollars into Mohalla Tech, an Indian startup that owns social…
Continue ReadingFacebook is trying to make AI fairer by paying people to give it data
Artificial intelligence systems are often criticized for built-in biases. Commercial facial-recognition software, for instance, may fail when…
Continue ReadingBiden wants Amazon to ‘start paying their taxes’
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Amazon should “start paying their taxes” in a broader critique of large, successful businesses.…
Continue ReadingTom Brady is launching an NFT company
Tom Brady is joining the NFT party. The seven-time Super Bowl champion is launching an NFT platform called Autograph this spring. It will bring…
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