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Amazon introduces new warehouse robot ‘Sparrow’
Amazon introduced the world to its Sparrow robot this week. The company said in a release Sparrow is Amazon’s “first robotic system in our warehouses that can detect, select and handle individual products.” Amazon said its workforce of around 750,000 warehouse employees “picked, stowed, or packed” around 5 billion packages last year, or about 13… -
Trump attacks former allies DeSantis, Youngkin
Former President Donald Trump is taking aim at two of his onetime Republican allies. In separate statements, Trump attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Virginia Gov. Glen Youngkin. On Friday, Trump posted to Truth Social: “Young Kin (now that’s an interesting take. Sounds Chinese, doesn’t it?) in Virginia couldn’t have won without me. I endorsed… -
How the war in Ukraine is impacting Russian students
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is impacting people all over the world. This week, the world learned how Russia’s war with Ukraine is impacting Russian school children. According to German broadcast outlet Deutche Welle (DW), Russian students have been required to take part in mandatory patriotism classes for the last two months. The class is… -
Putin’s enemies discuss ‘physically eliminating’ Russian leader
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine nine months ago. Tens of thousands of people are now dead. This week, the European news outlet Euractiv reported a group of anti-Russian activists and former Russian lawmakers have been meeting for months, discussing various ways of removing Putin from office. Euractiv reported the anti-Putin group… -
DOJ lays claim to $1 billion in stolen bitcoin
Federal prosecutors seized a sizeable fortune in stolen bitcoin last year. The pilfered cryptocurrency wasn’t kept in a safe or a lockbox at the bank. It was found in an old popcorn tin. For the last 10 years, the federal government has been looking for billions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin stolen from Silk Road.… -
John Kerry to propose expanded carbon credit program at Cop27
Government leaders and climate scientists from around the world are in Egypt for Cop27, the UN’s Climate Implementation Summit. John Kerry is the U.S. climate envoy to the summit. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, Kerry is expected to propose a plan he hopes will help developing nations stop using fossil fuels. Under Kerry’s plan,… -
A week after Musk takes over, Twitter begins widespread layoffs
A week into Elon Musk’s tenure as CEO of Twitter, the self-proclaimed “Twitter Complaint Line Operator” is following through with his promise to make the company profitable. He started with widespread layoffs. The first day Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters as CEO, he fired the former CEO Parag Agrawal. In the days that… -
Amid protests, Biden vows to ‘free Iran’
President Biden told a crowd of supporters that the U.S. is going to help free Iran. Iran wants Russia to help it develop nuclear weapons. And Iran may be moments away from launching an attack on Saudi Arabia. It was quite a week of developments for Iran, as the Islamic Republic stands on the brink… -
Montana attorney general: Democrats, YouTube circumvent democratic process
Montana’s attorney general wants YouTube to restore some videos that the streaming giant removed. Austin Knudsen said some Democratic lawmakers and others in the federal government are pressuring YouTube to routinely remove politically unfavorable speech. The Montana attorney general sent a letter Wednesday to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, expressing his concern over YouTube’s removal of… -
Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder may sell team
Dan Snyder, the controversial owner of the Washington Commanders, might not be an NFL owner for too much longer. The team announced on Wednesday that Snyder and his wife Tanya hired Bank of America to consider potential transactions. It’s not clear whether the Snyders intend to sell the whole team outright, some shares of the… -
Report: UK began ‘war gaming’ weeklong blackouts last year
According to The Guardian, the British government started ‘war-gaming’ an emergency plan to deal with wide-scale disruptions to its energy supply last year, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The plan, called Programme Yarrow, was initially set up to deal with impacts to the National Grid. Yarrow lays out the government’s response in the event of… -
Russia rejoins deal to export grain from Ukraine
Call it a win for diplomacy. On Wednesday, Russia said it would rejoin the wartime agreement allowing Ukrainian grain and agriculture commodities to reach world markets through the Black Sea. Less than a week ago, Russia said it was abandoning the deal after an alleged drone attack against its Black Sea Fleet. Russia said the… -
DHS fight against misinformation, disinformation raising concerns
The Department of Homeland Security was founded after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001. The goal of the agency was to prevent another terrorist attack. However, as the war on terror wound down, DHS has found new targets to investigate: Americans on social media. Reporting by The Intercept shows DHS started to shift its…
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