Business, Spoken

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Business, Spoken episodes

July 20, 2022 Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix Its Worker Injury Problem
The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.

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10 min
July 19, 2022 Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.

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13 min
July 18, 2022 Escooter Rentals Aren’t as Green as You Think
Dubious design and inefficient operations are just some of the reasons why shared scooters’ ecocredentials are thin.

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13 min
July 15, 2022 The Digital Divide Is Coming for You
More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf.

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11 min
July 14, 2022 Crypto’s Free Rein May Be Coming to a Close
Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities.

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15 min
July 13, 2022 Tech Companies Will Cover Abortion Travel—but Not for All Workers
Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out.

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10 min
July 12, 2022 What, Exactly, Is the Metaverse Standards Forum Creating?
No one will agree on what the metaverse is. But that's not stopping a coalition of big names in tech from designing the tools needed to build it.

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10 min
July 11, 2022 Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along
Abortion access groups and activists say they were dealing with algorithmic suppression long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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13 min
July 08, 2022 The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can’t do to people, like whether it’s OK to deploy lie detectors at borders.

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11 min
July 07, 2022 The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium
China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.”

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12 min

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