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Surviving Amazon: Work, life, and bias inside one of the world’s most ambitious businesses

GeekWire

You don’t want to spill, tell how the algorithms work or something, but also I think there’s a certain amount of fear. It’s actually been interesting to me in the past three or four years to see things start to leak out of Amazon pretty routinely. I had run out of runway in my career. What got you to Amazon?

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With the Samsung Galaxy S21, it’s time for Bixby to put up or shut up

The Verge

Samsung will be the first major Android maker out of the gate with Qualcomm’s newest chips, this time with the Snapdragon 888. It’s a new user interface, not a new way to ask how tall the Eiffel Tower is. It built out Bixby routines (which was related to Bixby’s original purpose). Speaking of shoes, put yourself in Samsung’s.

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Revolt of the delivery workers

The Verge

All summer, food-delivery workers returning home after their shifts have been violently attacked there for their bikes: by gunmen pulling up on motorcycles, by knife-wielding thieves leaping from the recesses, by muggers blocking the path with Citi Bikes and brandishing broken bottles. Sergio himself lost two bikes in two months.

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

Michael is also a co-founder of Justin.tv, known now as Twitch, and he recently joined the board at Reddit after co-founder Alexis Ohanian stepped down and asked the company to replace him with someone who is Black. They don’t know if the company before them or after them raised more or less, or got better or worse terms.

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The Verge’s favorite non-tech gadgets

The Verge

But while most of those gadgets come under the heading of tech — headphones, smartphones, laptops, speakers, and all the other electronic gear that we love to play with — there are also some really interesting, fun, and useful gadgets out there that we don’t usually think of as tech, per se. But hey, let’s not be picky. Kitchen gear.

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#BlackoutTuesday derailed #BlackLivesMatter. A community organizer explains how to do better.

Vox

Navigating social media in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent national wave of protests has been a frustrating experience for many people — especially if they’re trying to figure out what to do and what not to do. Before the protests, the Lace on Race community was relatively drama-free.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

ForAllSecure

Is there something more secure? Something better? In a moment, I’ll introduce you to someone who’s been working in the Identity and Access management space for nearly two decades. So there’s something there within IAM. So I reached out to an expert in this field. So there must be a better way.