Andy Jassy, who helped create Amazon Web Services in 2006 and has run it since, will take over as chief executive later this year. Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said Tuesday he would be stepping down as CEO of the legendary ecommerce company to become its executive chair. The news, announced in a
Month: February 2021
The retail giant agrees to repay almost $62 million in tips to drivers for its Flex delivery service; the company used the money to meet its promised hourly wages. The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that Amazon had agreed to repay drivers for its Flex delivery service almost $62 million that consumers had intended as
Warehouses, factories, and hospitals are deploying more robots, often made by different companies. That can lead to communication problems. So many robots work at Changi General Hospital in Singapore that until recently it wasn’t uncommon to find two delivery bots sitting in a hallway or outside an elevator in a standoff. Such impasses used to
Distribution plans that favor people with time and internet access hurt Black and Latinx people disproportionately. Since December, about 31 million doses of Covid vaccines have been administered in the US. President Biden has committed to distributing 150 million more doses within his first 100 days in office, but new cases continue to mount. January
This month’s focus is on reporter Mohamad Mosaed, an outspoken critic of the Iranian government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In May 2019, WIRED joined the One Free Press Coalition, a united group of preeminent editors and publishers using their global reach and social platforms to spotlight journalists under attack worldwide. Today, the coalition is
The president hopes electrifying the federal fleet will create jobs and encourage motorists to ditch gas-powered cars. But no automaker is ready yet. The federal government is going electric. Or, well, it’s going to try. President Biden last week signed an executive order that, among other initiatives to mitigate climate change, strongly encourages the federal
Unemployment is high, and many pre-pandemic jobs will not return. But the US spends a smaller share of its economy on training than most developed nations. Saeed Shareef badly wanted to get out of the restaurant industry. Shareef, 30, had started working as a server a decade earlier, after realizing he couldn’t afford the price