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Docs: SpaceX paid $250K to settle a flight attendant's sexual misconduct claim that alleged Elon Musk offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016
Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain
Meta pauses all Facebook ads targeting people in Russia and stops letting marketers in Russia run ads globally, after Roskomnadzor blocked Facebook in Russia
Customers of sanctioned Russian banks are unable to use their cards with Apple Pay and Google Pay, according to the Central Bank of Russia
How Omicron Symptoms Differ From Delta, Past COVID-19 Variants: Charts
Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the "ugly truth" is "nobody cares about what's happening" to Uyghurs in China, himself included
Capitol Rioters Called Pelosi's Office for 'Lost and Found': Raskin
A TikTok moderator sues the company for an unsafe workplace that gave her PTSD; her lawyer says TikTok stopped her from working a day after the suit was filed
MGM Resorts aims to reduce staff churn by having job seekers try out roles with VR, even simulations with tough customers, starting in Jan. with Strivr headsets
A CNN reporter tried Tesla’s Full Self-Driving in New York City. It kept trying to turn into oncoming traffic
Why Pine Nuts Are One of the Most Expensive Nuts in the World
Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss
Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years
Florida Worker Applied to 60 Entry-Level Jobs, Got One Interview
Internal doc: Amazon held talks with Starbucks to put its cashierless tech in a co-branded coffee shop, at one point aiming for a Q4 2020 launch
Techmeme · 7 months ago
FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked
Intel said it didn't consider UK for new chip-making factory because of Brexit
Rivian R1T: First Drive in the Electric Pickup
Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal
Hacker News · 8 months ago
Mailchimp founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, then sold for $12B
Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers
Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa software and without third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October
Techmeme · 9 months ago
In an abrupt reversal, OnlyFans suspends its October 1 policy change banning porn after securing "assurances" and aims to provide "a home for all creators"
Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue
Hacker News · 9 months ago
Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
Google is dismantling its health division
AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible
Robinhood buys Say Technologies, which has raised $8M and whose service helps stock shareholders exercise their voting rights, in a $140M cash deal
A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself
Uber CEO says Uber won't require drivers or passengers to be vaccinated, though will require corporate employees to be vaccinated before returning to the office
Filings: Starlink has secured a license to build a satellite ground station on the Isle of Man, aiming to provide "blanket coverage" across Great Britain
1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
Hacker News · 10 months ago
Workers at CSAT Solutions, a Texas company that handles many of Apple's laptop repairs, call their workplace a "sweatshop" with broken AC and 13-hour shifts
A Massachusetts couple accuses eBay of harassment and torture after claiming employees sent them live spiders and a bloody pig mask
The head of the FDA is calling for an investigation into her agency's decision
Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely
GETTR, the new pro-Trump social platform, acknowledges it was hacked on its July 4 launch, with the usernames of prominent accounts being defaced
Sources: Amazon is discussing forming a "Rebel Alliance" with Slack and other companies to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the work-productivity app market
Techmeme · 11 months ago