Social media website Parler could by no means come again on-line after Amazon dropped the conservative-friendly platform from its servers, its CEO mentioned, as the corporate insists in courtroom that its termination was motivated by “political animus.” ...

Amazon’s political motion committee will halt donations to lawmakers who voted to problem the outcomes of the 2020 election – all of them Republicans – as a collection of firms take comparable steps after the Capitol Hill riot. ...

Joe Biden has staffed his transition crew with a number of former Silicon Valley gamers, and now a brother of his high White Home aide has landed a lobbying gig with Amazon. Can Biden be trusted to rein in large tech? ...

Researchers have proven how a cave-adapted glass knifefish species of roughly 300 residing members (Eigenmannia vicentespelea) has advanced from surface-dwelling kin (Eigenmannia trilineata) that also stay simply exterior their cave door -- by sacrificing their eyes and pigmentation, however gaining barely extra highly effective electrical organs that improve the way ...

Danish funding financial institution Saxo Financial institution has launched its annual record of “outrageous predictions,” making an attempt to evaluate some unlikely – however not unattainable – occasions that would shake up the worldwide monetary markets after the trauma of 2020. ...

The European Fee (EC) introduced a second formal investigation into on-line retailer Amazon on Tuesday, accusing the agency of breaching European antitrust guidelines through the use of unbiased sellers’ knowledge for its personal profit. ...

Amazon has joined its Massive Tech fellows in ramping up censorship of any criticism of the “official” Covid-19 narrative, deploying obfuscatory excuses to justify eradicating journalist James Perloff’s newest e-book, he informed RT. ...

Portland lawmakers unanimously handed a sweeping ban on facial recognition know-how, turning into the primary metropolis to bar each private and non-private entities from the controversial software program and defeating Amazon’s bid to kill the measure. ...

Amazon is in quest of “intelligence analysts” able to tracing “threats” from organized labor, in response to two not too long ago surfaced job listings, which the corporate swiftly deleted after they acquired consideration from the press. ...

Amazon’s new health tracker ‘Halo’ takes technological intrusion to new ranges, scanning the person’s physique and monitoring the feelings of their voice. Even mainstream media protection says the tech’s privateness implications are troubling. ...