In addition to our slate of Kinja Deals-exclusive Anker Prime Day deals, Amazon’s most popular gadget charging company is also running the best prices ever on a few of its ever-popular PowerCore battery packs, for one day only.
Mars’ surface, as far as we can tell, is not habitable to humans—it’s far too cold. But eventually, humanity would like to put an outpost on the planet. That will require warming things up a bit, but how?
Amazon Says It Will Retrain Workers It’s Automating Out of Jobs. But Does 'Upskilling' Even Work?
Posted in: Today's ChiliAmazon made waves when it announced late last week that it planned to spend $700 million to retrain one-third of its U.S. workforce—100,000 employees—as part of its ‘Upskilling 2025’ initiative. The sizable commitment, which the Wall Street Journal notes is “among the biggest corporate retraining initiatives” yet…
Welcome to another edition of Amazon Prime Day, an event described in earnest by the everything store as “a 2-day parade of epic deals.” If you can stomach scouring the website and mostly wading through a lot of hot garbage, you may land on something actually useful. But mostly, you’ll find deals on a lot of shit you…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met with Beyoncé and Jay Z on Sunday at “The Lion King” premiere in London.
“It was very humbling to be swimming alongside of it,” said the woman who encountered it.
The US government views cryptocurrencies, including Facebook-backed Libra, as a national security issue. In a press conference today, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Treasury Department has “very serious concerns” that Libra could be misus…
Former Vine boss Jason Toff announced he’ll be joining Facebook next. In a Twitter post, Toff shared that he’ll be leading Facebook’s New Product Experimentation (NPE) Team. Revealed last week, the NPE Team will focus on “entirely new experiences for…
Volkswagen may have wrapped its new ID.3 electric car in a brightly colored paint job to make sure we couldn’t see in through the windows, but that hasn’t stopped the EV’s dashboard from leaking. Indeed, VW has only itself to blame, since the early glimpse of the screen-heavy cabin come from promo videos it itself published early. Revealed earlier this … Continue reading
The United States Army has announced plans to test robotic combat vehicles starting in March 2020 at Fort Carson in Colorado. During that time, soldiers will participate in an operational test of modified Bradley Fighting Vehicles (tanks) called Mission Enabler Technologies-Demonstrators (MET-Ds). The test will influence future autonomous vehicle projects conducted by the US Army. According to the US Army, … Continue reading