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Amazon Expands Payment by Palm Scan to More Stores

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly expanded its palm scanning payment tech to more of its physical stores in the Seattle area. A University of Oxford professor pointed out a major disadvantaged of the technology, saying: “You can never change your palm like you change your password or other identification tokens.”

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Populist vs. Globalist: Alex Marlow Media Exposé Tops Bill Gates Global Warming Book on Amazon

The upcoming book from Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, “Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption,” which rocketed into the top ten best sellers on Amazon hours after its launch, has bested billionaire Bill Gates’s book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need” on Amazon’s best sellers list.

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Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘Borat’ Sequel’s Pre-Election Release Was Timed to Highlight Trump’s ‘Slide Into Authoritarianism’

Sacha Baron Cohen said that he wanted to release his Borat sequel before the presidential election to highlight then-President Donald Trump’s “misogyny, corruption and dangerous slide into authoritarianism.” He said he also had political motive to star in The Trial of the Chicago 7, to show the “importance of standing up to racism, immorality, and police brutality.”

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Amazon Sues to Block New York Warehouse Labor Investigation

E-commerce giant Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the New York state attorney general’s office in a move to prevent legal action over the company’s handling of coronavirus conditions at one of its Staten Island warehouses last year. The company wants to prevent the state from exercising “regulatory authority over workplace safety responses to COVID-19 and claims of retaliation against workers who protest working conditions.”

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Amazon Workers Prepare for Alabama Union Vote

Amazon workers in Alabama are preparing to vote on whether not to become the company’s first unionized facility in the United States. Ballots are being sent out today to 5,800 warehouse workers to decide if they will join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union.

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Amazon to Pay $61.7M FTC Settlement for Stiffing Drivers on Tips

E-commerce giant Amazon will reportedly pay $61.7 million to settle allegations by the FTC that the company failed to pay Flex delivery drivers the full amount of tips given to them by customers. An FTC official commented: “Rather than passing along 100% of customers’ tips to drivers, as it had promised to do, Amazon used the money itself. Our action today returns to drivers the tens of millions of dollars in tips that Amazon misappropriated, and requires Amazon to get drivers’ permission before changing its treatment of tips in the future.”

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Amazon Unveils Unusual ‘Helix’ HQ2 Design

E-commerce giant Amazon has unveiled the design of its new Arlington, Virginia HQ2 building, dubbed “the Helix” due to its winding shape that is supposed to take inspiration from “the natural beauty of a double helix.”

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