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Amazon discriminated against pregnant warehouse employees by denying accommodations like bathroom breaks and the option to sit while working, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by four women who worked for Amazon while pregnant. The lawsuit is a class-action complaint that se

At its Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday, Apple launched a meeting notetaker for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, one of a series of new audio intelligence features that can listen to sounds through your Apple Watch. The feature, called Siri Recap, uses ambient listenin

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Fifteen years ago, I wrote that software is eating the world - at the time, a controversial claim. The main prediction of the essay has come true. As a simple measure, technology’s share of the market capitalization among the ten larges

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL with AlloyDB Omni RPM Orchestrator is generally available Ujjwal Lanjewar Senior Staff Engineer Omkar Deshmukh Product Manager We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the AlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM orchestrator, that brings production-rea

Apple has debuted the new AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation and sound quality—aiming to provide improved listening and user features at a lower launch price than the predecessor AirPods 4. The newest AirPods will go on sale for $129 in stores starting on September

By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO, Sept 9 - Chicago wheat futures fell on Wednesday as the market assessed diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war with Ukraine against continued disruption to Black Sea exports. Profit-taking after a steady run-up in prices also weighed, analysts said. Co

J.D.’s view A potentially devastating bug in Chinese superapp WeChat is the latest security scare underscoring why relying on slow-moving — and often opposing — governments won’t solve AI’s thorniest problems. Instead, it’s falling to private companies to voluntarily step in and

Apple announced the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today. Both include a new “Health Sensing System” and S11 chip that give the devices the “most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable,” Apple claimed during its fall event. Both watches will use the new S11 chip alongside the new

Traders closely study how pensions funds, controlling $73 trillion, plan to spend their firepower. But lately, the industry’s biggest whales are creating outsized dislocation and trepidation in global currency and bond markets. The excessive market scrutiny and speculation that b

Labor Day is in the rearview mirror, kids are back to school, and a squall of pumpkin spice is upon us. It’s that time again to prepare for the equally inevitable respiratory virus season with annual vaccines. With fervent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the countr

Harvey, the legal AI startup that VCs can’t get enough of, has raised another $550 million in funding, this time at a $15.5 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday. The round was co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners and follows the previous $200 milli

Carles Reina was employee #4 at ElevenLabs and its first go-to-market hire. He was also its first investor. He spent the first nine months selling enterprise deals by himself, then built the entire commercial org, and has now moved full-time to Baobab Ventures, the $15M solo GP f