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Imagine you’re stuck in your daily commute and listening to a riveting audiobook, your mind far away and swimming with scenes of action and romance, only to be jettisoned back into reality when your listening is interrupted with an advertisement for, say, Pampers or Geico cutting in.

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Amazon employees at the Spheres next to its Seattle headquarters
Amazon, whose headquarters is pictured here, is letting employees use company stock to seek home loans with the mortgage company Better.
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The dark overlord Sauron that is the online retail giant Amazon always has its eye on its workers, and none more so than its delivery drivers. One TikTok shows how Amazon’s in-van cameras and AI system can track everything, from how often they buckle up, to whether they take their hand off the steering wheel to…

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Being a 20-something-year-old is hard, reader. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and everyone wants to put us into a box.

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An Amazon delivery driver posted a TikTok that explains how the company's AI-camera system works.
An Amazon delivery driver posted a TikTok that explains how the company's AI-camera system works.
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Twitter is said to have let go of 200 employees over the weekend in addition to the 7,500 workers that the social media giant axed last year.
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People in the lobby of Amazon offices in New York
Amazon sets a goal each year for how many employees it wants to lose, voluntarily or otherwise, without managers being upset about their departure, Insider has reported.
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Pop quiz: which big company was the first to popularize electronic paper e-readers with consumers by making it easy to find and load ebooks and other digital documents? If you answered Amazon, we’ll see you in summer school, because Sony’s e-readers outdated the Kindle by years.

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Four wild donkeys stand in a valley in the Mojave desert, near Rhyolite, Nevada.
Four wild donkeys stand in a valley in the Mojave desert, near Rhyolite, Nevada.