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Don’t Open That Google Doc Unless You’re Positive It’s Legit
IF YOU GET a Google Doc link in your inbox today, scrutinize it carefully before you click—even if it looks like it comes from...
Report: These are the fastest-declining jobs in the U.S.
As technology overtakes every industry, the business forecast for jobs like typists, watch repairers, and postal workers over the next decade is bleak, according...
Mexico taking U.S. factory jobs? Blame robots instead
Problem is, factories don’t need as many people as they used to because machines now do so much of the work
The Apple-Google Contact Tracing Plan Won’t Stop Covid Alone
Putting the privacy of these smartphone apps aside, few Americans have been tested—and there's a risk of false positives.
Hands wearing sterile gloves checking a...
Can’t Decide What Kind of Flying Car to Get? Try These 10!
COMMUTERS OF THE world, rejoice. The long-promised age of the flying car is finally here—more or less. Big-name companies around the world are showing honest...
This robot-powered restaurant could put fast food workers out of a job
A robot-powered burger joint is coming to San Francisco.
In 2012, secretive robotics startup Momentum Machines debuted a machine that could crank out 400 made-to-order...
In booming retail warehouses, robots steadily replace some workers
When Skechers started building a colossal distribution center in Moreno Valley six years ago, backers promised a wave of new jobs.
Instead, by the time...
How to Set Up Your New Google Home
So your home now has a Google Home. You’re about to enter the wonderful world of digital personal assistants. All you have to do...
Veebot, the Robotic Phlebotomist That Makes Drawing Blood Faster (VIDEO)
There are two things that this editor fears about blood draws: the fact that he has deep veins, and the prospect of being stabbed...
Amazon’s first drone-powered delivery takes 13 minutes from purchase to drop-off
Drone delivery has begun.
On Dec. 7, a bag of popcorn, along with an Amazon Fire TV stick, left a Cambridge warehouse in the U.K. and 13 minutes...
