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In Blue Apron’s Chaotic Warehouses, Making Dinner Easy Is Hard Work
Blue Apron wants to revolutionize the food system by selling would-be home cooks all the ingredients they need to make a wholesome meal without setting foot in the grocery store. But a BuzzFeed News investigation has found that in the rush to scale its supply chain at the speed of startup, the company has had health and safety violations, violent incidents, and unhappy workers at one of its packing facilities.
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LinkedIn Co-Founder Says He’ll Pay To See Trump Tax Transparency
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, says he’ll donate up to $5 million to veterans affairs groups if Donald Trump releases his tax returns.
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Watch Apple CEO Tim Cook Do Karaoke (Oh And Check Out The New Wireless AirPods)
At the big iPhone event, we saw videos of the new wireless AirPods, the new swimproof Apple Watch, and even a little Carpool Karaoke.
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Nextdoor Rolls Out Product Fix It Hopes Will Stem Racial Profiling
The company says that during a test pilot its new algorithmic crime and safety report form reduced racial profiling on its platform.
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Judge Rejects Uber’s $100 Million Settlement For Being “Not Fair” To Drivers
There’s a risk that drivers could get nothing at trial.
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Uber Is Putting A Bunch Of Self-Driving Volvos On The Road In Pittsburgh
Uber also announced this morning that it’s buying Otto, a San Francisco-based automated trucking startup that’s less than a year old.
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How This Decades-Old Technology Ushered In Predictive Text
Stanford professor Tom Mullaney has the largest collection of Chinese typewriters in the world — a collection that he says contains clues to the almost-lost history of information technology.
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Even Techies Can’t Afford San Francisco Anymore
A new report says over a quarter of San Francisco software engineers currently looking for jobs are looking outside California.
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Trump Supporters Suggest Women He Could Nominate To Cabinet Positions
After Trump had some trouble naming women he would nominate for cabinet positions if elected, his female supporters in Iowa tried to help him out.
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Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich Says The Gig Economy Can Be A “Nightmare”
Here’s what he thinks we could do to fix it.
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During Discrimination Controversy, Airbnb To Host Civil Rights Media Event With BET
Airbnb will co-host a civil rights event with BET at the Democratic National Convention, less than a week after hiring former US Attorney General Eric Holder to help fix the site’s racial discrimination problem.
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Adulting Is Hard. So This App Finds The Subscriptions You Forgot About
There’s an app that finds the subscriptions you forgot you pay for and helps you delete them.
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Hyperloop One Files Countersuit In Response To Co-Founder’s Lawsuit
The transportation startup has made a robust response to a lawsuit filed last week by its co-founder and former CTO, Brogan BamBrogan, alleging assault, defamation, and breach of fiduciary duty.
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6 Ways People Are Cashing In Pokémon Go
Across the country, American dreamers are cashing in on the latest craze in gaming — but how much you can make depends on where you live.
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Good Luck Finding Airbnb’s Anti-Discrimination Policy
Airbnb says it’s working on a solution to its discrimination problem, but new hosts don’t even have to read the company’s so-called zero-tolerance policy when they sign up.
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Yelp Is Now Filtering Places By How Close They Are To PokéStops
Because this is the world we live in now.
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People Are Pledging To Buy Gift Cards If Starbucks Dumps Trump Tower
Frappucinos fans have pledged more than $38,000 in potential gift card purchases so far.
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Uber Kills RNC Alt-Weekly Deal Over Anti-Trump Cover
The ride-hail giant cancels an RNC-week distribution deal with a Cleveland newspaper over a Republican-themed coloring book featuring Donald Trump as King Kong.
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This Lawsuit Is The Craziest Thing In Tech Right Now
Hyperloop One CTO Brogan BamBrogan has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming assault, physical threat, nepotism, financial mismanagement, defamation, and more.
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An LGBT-Friendly Option Could Prevent Discrimination On Airbnb
Even before Buddy Fisher’s Airbnb reservation was canceled by an anti-gay host, LGBT travelers were asking Airbnb to offer a gay-friendly booking option.
