Exclusive: Amazon makes even temporary warehouse workers sign 18-month non-competes
The Amazon contract, obtained by The Verge, requires employees to promise that they will not work at any company where they “directly or indirectly” support any good or service that competes with those they helped support at Amazon, for a year and a half after their brief stints at Amazon end.
March 26, 2015 at 05:07PM
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A Brief History of the ATM
How automation changed retail banking.
March 26, 2015 at 05:07PM
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Hey, IRS: Here are some Bitcoin users who might need help paying their taxes
For law-abiding Bitcoin fans, tax season can be especially stressful. The IRS’s guidelines for virtual currencies, laid down last year, classified Bitcoin as property for federal tax purposes. That means that, just as with any other financial asset, Bitcoin users are required to pay taxes whenever they sell or exchange Bitcoin for a gain.
March 26, 2015 at 01:59PM
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Engineers create structures tougher than bulletproof vests
The new structures exploit the electromechanical properties of specific nanofibers to stretch to up to seven times their length, while remaining tougher than Kevlar.
March 26, 2015 at 11:57AM
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Airbending, Waterbending And Earth Bending With Nanotechnology
If science continues its quest to do anything and everything, we’ll eventually be able to take advantage of nano-swarms — which will allow you to do some pretty interesting things (even aside from becoming the Avatar).
March 26, 2015 at 11:50AM
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Zuckerberg Wants to Move Fast and Help Everyone Make Money
In a recent conversation at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus, Wired asked Zuckerberg to share a few thoughts on his developer philosophy, his perspective on Google, and how all of Facebook’s products and services fit together.
March 26, 2015 at 08:46AM
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The FBI has 17 working drones and only two pilots
The FBI may have drones, but according to a new report, it isn’t using them very often.
March 26, 2015 at 06:40AM
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Facebook Is Eating The Internet
This version of Facebook is one where it is no longer just a single factor in our lives but the overarching context that consumes everything beneath it.
March 25, 2015 at 08:23PM
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Time Is Money Is Work Is Virtue
In addition to being fashionable, the Apple Watch promises to help its owners improve their time discipline, an exercise that is still suffused with notions of morality.
March 25, 2015 at 06:33PM
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Meet Jevo, the Keurig of Jello Shots
The revolutionary machine can crank out 20 Jello shots in just 10 minutes using K-Cup-style pods.
March 25, 2015 at 05:32PM
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