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Analysis: New jobs numbers show where Amazon has been adding and shedding U.S. workers

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workforce for the first time since the company started to curb the growth of its fulfillment and delivery network a year ago. The state-by-state employment declines are unprecedented in Amazon’s history, following more than a decade of extraordinary growth in the company’s fulfillment and delivery network. employment.

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Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

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The city this week shared its first batch of reports from the groundbreaking program, which has drawn comparisons to “Minority Report,” the 2002 film in which Tom Cruise anticipates and preemptively stops crime. Bellevue is leading the way on this,” said Roger Millar, Washington Secretary of Transportation.

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Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

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But young consumer audiences use various social networking tools — Instagram, TikTok, and others —that typically have nothing to do with Microsoft. A good comparison here is that when the iPhone came out, it was a breakthrough device and a platform, but it was not obvious how it would revolutionize our lives.

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Amazon earnings preview: Holiday quarter report will show impact of economic uncertainty

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Amazon’s headcount grew by 21,000 employees during the third quarter, which pales in comparison to the same period in 2021, when Amazon added 133,000 workers, and in 2020, when it added 248,500 people. Many other tech companies have also cut jobs amid the broader tech downturn.

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Here’s why Amazon relaxed its marijuana standards, according to industry experts and lawyers

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We will no longer include marijuana in our comprehensive drug screening program for any positions not regulated by the Department of Transportation…” But cannabis industry experts along with attorneys who handle workplace issues believe there is something deeper afoot. “However, given where state laws are moving across the U.S.,

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Supply chain woes? Analytics may be the answer

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“We think of the supply chain as the sum of several parts of the whole business operation — from understanding customer demand to materials management and manufacturing or sourcing and purchasing, to logistics and transportation, to inventory management and automated replenishment orders at Optimas and at our customers’ locations.”.

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Van maker BrightDrop builds ERP and business in parallel

CIO Business Intelligence

GM set up BrightDrop in January 2021 to modernize first- and last-mile transport with an integrated ecosystem of electric vans and motorized pallets. That’s in stark comparison with the 30 months it took the parent company to migrate its global ledger. That meant things could move quickly. “We

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