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How the sport of rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’ — and how it’s stayed the same

GeekWire

” On paper, the performance of the rowers at the center of the movie — and at the center of the bestselling book on which the movie is based — pales in comparison with current Olympic and world records. … That data allows you to make more educated progress through your training program.”

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Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’

The Verge

Amazon tells its warehouse employees to think of themselves not as overworked cogs in an enormous, soul-crushing machine, but as “industrial athletes,” and to prepare their bodies for that experience like someone training for a sporting event, according to a pamphlet obtained by Motherboard.

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Review: Amazon’s Halo View health tracker is a good second release, with some awkward quirks

GeekWire

In addition, Amazon continues to improve the Halo health service and smartphone app with new content and programs, offering unique ways to understand and improve your overall health. Halo View comes with a Sport band that is difficult to put on. It’s available in three sport bands: black, olive and lavender.

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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

This has occasionally popped up as an objection to bednet programs, notably in a 2015 New York Times article. One related argument is that the diversion of nets toward fishing means they’re not as effective an anti-malaria program as they initially appear. That’s simply a misunderstanding of how the research on bednets works.

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

GeekWire

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. Amazon debuted a new delivery program in June 2018 in Seattle.

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

In the process, it copied the “structure, sequence, and organization” of some Java application programming interface (API) packages, which enable basic computing actions. They’re used to write creative computer programs. A recurring comparison to keyboards was more sympathetic to Google. It was purely mechanical.”)

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Brains vs. bots in the newsroom: Can AI generate better story ideas than humans can?

GeekWire

By comparison, the chatbots took subtle aspects of the prompts too far, seeing things as black-and-white. Diet, nutrition, and recipes: AI can generate recipes that adhere to specific types of diets and nutritional regimes, but how accurate are they in actually following the principles of these different programs?