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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...
Robots Wielding Water Knives Are the Future of Farming
JUST AFTER DAWN in the Salinas Valley south of San Francisco, a raucous robot rolls through a field spitting clouds of vapor. It’s cutting...
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...
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...
Finally, An Online Course For Aspiring Flying Car Engineers
N THE PAST year, flying cars have gone from LOL, to maybe a real thing, to a booming industry raking in VC cash and churning out sweet renderings of an...
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...
Will Robots Replace Fast-Food Workers?
The robots in movies and science fiction books that rise up to take over the world generally are able to do so because we...
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...
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
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...
