The plain truth, courtesy of anchor John Potter of KTVN in Reno.
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3:13 pm Sat
Jul 25, 2015
How Amazon became a larger company than Walmart
Amazon's monopsony power: the other antitrust white meat
In 2017, law student Lina Khan shifted the debate on Amazon and antitrust with a seminal paper called Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, which used Amazon's abusive market dominance to criticize the Reagan-era shift in antitrust enforcement, which rewrote the criteria for antitrust enforcement, so that antitrust no longer concerned itself with preventing monopoly, and only focused […]
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Amazon told to stop selling kids' school supplies that contain over 80 times the legal limit of lead
This pencil pouch has over 35 times the legal limit of lead, 29 times the legal limit of cadmium.
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Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell
Ring is a "smart" doorbell that Amazon bought for $1B in 2018, and proceeded to turn into an insecure, networked surveillance device, (possibly wired into Amazon's facial recognition system) and connected to law enforcement so that the company could advertise that owning a Ring made you a good citizen of your neighborhood, part of a […]
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Learn cloud computing for AWS, Microsoft Azure, & Google Cloud
If you can build a cloud infrastructure, you can build a business. Companies are overwhelmingly turning to cloud computing to set up or bolster their network, and it’s easy to see why. It allows on-demand access to processing power, a la carte services, and nearly unlimited storage, all without adding extra systems and the maintenance […]
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Score Memorial Day deals on these key gaming accessories
Does your gaming setup need an upgrade? No need to wait for Christmas. We’ve rounded up the latest tech accessories for your favorite video game platforms. All of them are already sale priced, but you can knock an additional 15% off the final price for Memorial Day by using the online code WEEKEND15. Audeze Mobius […]
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Build custom Alexa skills by using Raspberry pi
Raspberry Pi is one of the world’s most versatile open-source computers. Alexa is a home automation hub with limitless potential. Together, they’re a dream team for ambitious makers, opening the door to everything from automatic lights to voice-controlled robots. Learning Raspberry Pi is meant to be relatively easy for newbies, but its applications with Alexa […]
