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Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa - 2 août 2019
A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.
Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into (...)
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Tinder Bypasses Google Play Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee - 23 juillet 2019
Tinder joined a growing backlash against app store taxes by bypassing Google Play in a move that could shake up the billion-dollar industry dominated by Google and Apple Inc.
The online dating site launched a new default payment process that skips Google Play and forces users to enter their credit card details (...)
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Amazon Workers Plan Prime Day Strike at Minnesota Warehouse - 9 juillet 2019
Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers in Minnesota plan to strike during the online retailer’s summer sales extravaganza, a sign that labor unrest persists even after the company committed to paying all employees at least $15 an hour last year.
Workers at a Shakopee, Minnesota, fulfillment center plan a six-hour work (...)
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Apple Face-Recognition Blamed by N.Y. Teen for False Arrest - 23 avril 2019
A New York student sued Apple Inc. for $1 billion, claiming the company’s facial-recognition software falsely linked him to a series of thefts from Apple stores.
Ousmane Bah, 18, said he was arrested at his home in New York in November and charged with stealing from an Apple store. The arrest warrant included a (...)
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Facebook, WhatsApp Step Up Efforts in Brazil’s Fake News Battle - 31 octobre 2018
Facebook Inc and its messaging app WhatsApp are trying to crack down on the spread of misinformation, spam and fake accounts on social media ahead of Brazil’s election runoff, according to two company representatives.
Monica Guise, Facebook’s public policy manager for Brazil, told reporters at a press conference in (...)
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Google Drops Out of Pentagon’s $10 Billion Cloud Competition - 10 octobre 2018
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has decided not to compete for the Pentagon’s cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion, saying the project may conflict with its corporate values.
The project, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, involves transitioning massive amounts of (...)
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Facebook Launches Video Device, Says Privacy is ’Very, Very, Very Important’ - 10 octobre 2018
Facebook Inc. wants you to buy its new video chat devices for your home, complete with cameras that track movement. That sounds like a lot to ask for a social-media company mired in privacy scandals. But Facebook has crafted its Portal gadgets, launched Monday, to be as un-creepy as possible.
At a recent product (...)
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Amazon Will Consider Opening Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021 - 20 septembre 2018
Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with matter, an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten convenience chains like 7-Eleven Inc., quick-service sandwich shops like Subway and Panera Bread, (...)
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IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands - 19 septembre 2018
A lawyer known for battling tech giants over the treatment of workers has set her sights on International Business Machines Corp.
Shannon Liss-Riordan on Monday filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of three former IBM employees who say the tech giant discriminated against them (...)
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Your Raise Is Now Based on Next Year’s Performance - 13 juillet 2018
Employers are trying to predict how well employees will do in the future.
Maybe past performance isn’t the best predictor of future success.
At IBM, when performance review time rolls around, employees get judged not only on their past accomplishments (and failures) but also on how they might perform in the (...)
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Bloomberg Billionaires Index - 9 juillet 2018
View profiles for each of the world’s 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page. The (...)
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Sexist Comments Flourish on Airbnb in China - 12 juin 2018
Airbnb bans trolling, discrimination and profanity. Yet if you’re a female user, expect a few choice remarks about your looks while using it in China.
Once regarded as a fun social aspect of online services in China, the proliferation of reviews talking about women’s looks — from guests being called "a babe" to (...)
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YouTube’s Plan to Clean Up the Mess That Made It Rich - 9 mai 2018
Extremist propaganda, dangerous hoaxes, videos of tasered rats"”the company is having its worst year ever. Except financially.
Susan Wojcicki, the chief executive officer of YouTube, was in a meeting on the second floor of her company’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., when she heard the first gunshot. It came (...)
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China Now Has the Most Valuable AI Startup in the World - 9 avril 2018
SenseTime Group Ltd. has raised $600 million from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and other investors at a valuation of more than $3 billion, becoming the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup.
The company, which specializes in systems that analyze faces and images on an enormous scale, said it closed a (...)
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Facebook Delays Home-Speaker Unveil Amid Data Crisis - 28 mars 2018
Facebook Inc. has decided not to unveil new home products at its major developer conference in May, in part because the public is currently so outraged about the social network’s data-privacy practices, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company’s new hardware products, connected speakers with (...)
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How Amazon Became Corporate America’s Nightmare - 14 mars 2018
Amazon makes no sense. It’s the most befuddling, illogically sprawling, and—to a growing sea of competitors—flat-out terrifying company in the world.
It sells soap and produces televised soap operas. It sells complex computing horsepower to the U.S. government and will dispatch a courier to deliver cold medicine on (...)
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Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again - 22 février 2018
Self-driving cars need painfully detailed data on every inch of street. Can automakers solve the problem without the reigning superpower of maps ?
On any given day, there could be a half dozen autonomous cars mapping the same street corner in Silicon Valley. These cars, each from a different company, are all (...)
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Facebook Really Wants You to Come Back - 5 février 2018
The social network is getting aggressive with people who don’t log in often, working to keep up its engagement numbers.
It’s been about a year since Rishi Gorantala deleted the Facebook app from his phone, and the company has only gotten more aggressive in its emails to win him back. The social network started out (...)
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Lobbyists Have a New Secret Weapon - 25 janvier 2018
The tax plan that Congress just passed was most notable for two things : the size of the overhaul"”it’s the biggest rewrite of the tax code in 31 years"”and the speed with which it came together. Republicans didn’t unveil the details of the plan until November, setting up a two-month lobbying frenzy as industries (...)
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China Uses Facial Recognition to Fence In Villagers in Far West - 18 janvier 2018
China’s state surveillance apparatus is trying out a new tool in one of its favorite test beds, the restive region of Xinjiang.
The Muslim-dominated villages on China’s western frontier are testing facial-recognition systems that alert authorities when targeted people venture more than 300 meters (1,000 feet) (...)
