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Tech
For Smarter Robots, Just Add Humans
Teleoperating a physical robot could become an important job in future, according to Sanctuary AI, based in Vancouver, Canada. The company also…
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Amazon’s HQ2 Aimed to Show Tech Can Boost Cities. Now It’s on Pause
After a dramatic competition that pitted US cities against one another, years of contested planning, and claims of unwavering commitment despite…
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An Apple Store Worker Is the New Face of US Labor Law Reform
The percentage of US workers represented by a union has fallen for decades, down to 10 percent last year. But…
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Tech Layoffs in 2023 Are Feeding a New Startup Surge
Henry Kirk always thought he would eventually leave his job as an engineering manager at Google and start his own…
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Workers Are Dying in the EV Industry’s ‘Tainted’ City
After GNI rejected their demands, workers called a strike from January 11 to 14. On the last day, more than 500…
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Ex-Twitter Workers Puzzle Over Elon Musk’s Abandoned Laptops
Elon Musk’s Twitter needs every penny. With millions of dollars in allegedly unpaid rent and bills, plus $13 billion owed to lenders who financed…
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A Fight Over Automation Plans at US Hydroelectric Dams
Michael Arendt has spent his career on the water. After working his way up through the US Merchant Marines from…
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Amazon Workers Lose Another Union Vote as Management Digs In
The Amazon Labor Union, which made history in April by unionizing the first Amazon warehouse in the US, lost its…
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Labor Day Sales for the Car Enthusiast
Amazon Labor Day weekend. The kids are headed back to school, lawns are turning brown, and the leaves are beginning…
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A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
Unions have also disputed how railroads have used new  congressionally-mandated automated emergency braking systems to justify plans to remove conductors…
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