DoorDash valued at nearly $16 bn in funding round
US delivery startup DoorDash said Thursday it raised $400 million from investors in a financing round valuing the company at nearly $16 billion.
Jun 18, 2020
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Amazon offers permanent jobs to 125K temp hires
Amazon on Thursday said it is offering permanent jobs to 125,000 of the temporary workers hired to handle surging use of its online shopping service due to the pandemic.
May 28, 2020
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Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality
Modern technology affects different workers in different ways. In some white-collar jobs—designer, engineer—people become more productive with sophisticated software at their side. In other cases, forms of automation, ...
May 6, 2020
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Amazon expects to plow $4B second-quarter profit into improving safety, delivery and wages
Amazon sold, shipped and streamed more food, products and video content during the first three months of 2020—revenue rose 26% to $75.5 billion—as it became a truly essential provider for consumers staying at home to ...
May 1, 2020
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Amazon profit falls as pandemic-related costs rise
Amazon's sales soared in the first three months of the year, as more home-bound people shopped online amid the coronavirus pandemic.
May 1, 2020
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Pandemic brings fortunes to Amazon—and headaches too
Amazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world.
Apr 29, 2020
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Automating manual resuscitators could aid sickest COVID-19 patients, developing countries
Spurred by fears of a shortage of ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients, a University at Buffalo-led research team is developing a low-cost solution using a common medical device.
Apr 23, 2020
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Boeing to lay off 10% of workers in civil aviation: sources
Boeing plans to reduce the workforce in its civil aviation unit by 10 percent to cut costs as the coronavirus causes a crisis for airlines, two sources familiar with the matter told AFP.
Apr 22, 2020
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Robots are playing many roles in the COVID-19 crisis—and offering lessons for future disasters
A cylindrical robot rolls into a treatment room to allow health care workers to remotely take temperatures and measure blood pressure and oxygen saturation from patients hooked up to a ventilator. Another robot that looks ...
Apr 22, 2020
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Amazon suspends all activity in France amid virus crisis
Amazon said Wednesday it will "temporarily" suspend all activity in France, one day after a French court ruled it wasn't doing enough to protect its workers in the country amid the pandemic.
Apr 15, 2020
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Laborer
One of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor (as opposed to skilled labor). In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades , e.g. operators or cement masons. The first century BC engineer Vitruvius writes in detail about laborer practices at that time. In his experience a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction. Other than the addition of pneumatics, laborer practices have changed little. With the advent of advanced technology and its introduction into the construction field, the laborers have been quick to include much of this technology as being laborers work.
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