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Amazon Cancels Yet Another Hub Meant for the New York Metropolitan Area

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Amazon, like many folks still struggling to locate an affordable apartment in and around New York City, can’t find anywhere that will let it settle down. First the company tried Queens , but found the neighborhood was too rowdy. Now, the area across the bay is no longer so keen on letting the retail giant set up shop.

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New York Amazon Employees Had to Work During Deadly Floods

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As Tropical Depression Ida transformed New York City into a lake on Monday night, Amazon, absurdly, kept its warehouses open and expected staff to work. Read more.

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Facebook crypto scammers pose as Tesla, Amazon, and even Facebook

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While scams in Facebook ads aren’t a new phenomenon and cryptocurrency scams have plagued platforms well beyond Facebook, these ads are particularly brazen: a network of scammers imitating the tech industry’s biggest players, on the tech industry’s largest social media platform, to shake down its users.

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HoloLight Earns $12m in Funding amid XR Streaming Push

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It has also secured massive partnerships with key industrial heavyweights such as Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, Verizon, Qualcomm, and many more. Doing so would help fast-track growth across the United States after opening a new US office at North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park location in Durham.

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Dive into women's history with these 5 free online resources

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March is here and so is Women's History Month in the United States. For Spanish versions of the documentary videos, visit the American masters PBS Youtube channel , the PBS LearningMedia site , or the PBS Documentaries channel on Amazon Prime. Its collection of online exhibits explore themes within women's history.

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How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods

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Huge metropolises like New York City crunched reams of crime and arrest data to find and target “hot spots” for extra policing. The expansion of digital record-keeping by police departments across the U.S. in the 1990s ushered in the era of data-driven policing. Researchers at the time found that this reduced crime … Read more.

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UN Finds Steven Donziger’s House Arrest Violates International Law, Says It’s ‘Appalled’

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The world’s top human rights legal body just offered a crucial show of support for Steven Donziger, the attorney who won a landmark multibillion-dollar case against an oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. The ruling came on the eve of his sentencing in a criminal trial. Read more.

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