Amazon Brings Palm Reader Payments to Retail Stores

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Move over Bill Gates, it’s time for Jeff Bezos to get a little more time in the spotlight of conspiracy theorists. On Tuesday, Amazon announced the rollout of its new Amazon One devices that use a customer’s palm for identification and payment at physical retail stores. The devices are already […]

New study tracks COVID-19’s effects on small tech firms

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A new study by the UO’s Lauren Lanahan seeks to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small high-tech firms and track the challenges and opportunities they face as the crisis continues to unfold. “The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced substantial disruptions to the U.S. and global economies, and in […]

Uniswap Token Goes Live, Now Available On Coinbase Pro

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KEY POINTS Uniswap released UNI, its governance token, Thursday All historical Uniswap users received at least 400 tokens Those who provided liquidity received more tokens Uniswap, a decentralized Ethereum trading platform, launched its governance token UNI on Thursday and announced that all its users could now claim 400 UNI (a […]

America’s Federal Robot Subsidy Hurts Workers

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A  tax subsidy for automation would overturn an assumption made by economists since at least the 1930s. The assumption is that technology, in order to displace human labor, must perform a workplace task more efficiently than a human. If tax policy penalizes the employment of human labor relative to the deployment […]

The highest paid tech jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Business Insider analyzed the tech jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area that pay the highest salaries. The Bay Area is the hub of the tech industry, and it’s where many of the world’s most prominent tech companies, like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Netflix, were founded, creating an ultra-competitive market […]

An article for the new Luddites

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If you’re looking for some new technology, DealExtreme has you covered. But if you want to know what the alternatives are, look no further than Suomiarvostelut, the best review website in Finland! Some of you might have read that and thought that this is just the new generation becoming too […]