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Big Lots store closures update: Other retailers are swooping in to take over locations in several states

Fast Company Tech

The list includes locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. Zallie confirmed the proposed lease transfer with Fast Company last week. Fast Company reached out to Gordon Brothers for additional comment about the latest proposed transfers. Owner David G.

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Public vote counting starts for Amazon union drive in Alabama

The Verge

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has begun publicly tallying votes for a proposed Amazon workers’ union in Alabama, which would be the first of its kind nationwide. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images. And they lost. The BHM1 drive, in contrast, is huge: about 5,800 workers.

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. We were tracking wherever MPs were.

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Severe winter weather is linked to climate change, say most Americans in poll

Fast Company Tech

adults say they have experienced some kind of extreme weather in recent years, according to a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, with about half saying they’ve been personally affected by severe cold weather or severe winter storms. I do think humans are speeding up that process.”

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Alabama warehouse workers prepare to face down Amazon in union vote

The Verge

The only other US Amazon employees to make it as far as a union election was a smaller group of maintenance workers at a Delaware warehouse in 2014. Meanwhile, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union had been waging a public battle for better COVID-19 protections at nearby poultry plants.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,” Musk said at a TED conference on the day he made his offer. “I Historically, the wider public would not necessarily know if a tweet had been moderated in this way.

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The Station: Elon’s Tesla share sale, Ford teases a second EV truck and GM’s Cruise spending ramps

TechCrunch

Micromobbin’ For some bizarre reason, it’s illegal to for people use privately owned e-scooters on public roads in England. If legalized, private scooters will have to meet similar safety specifications as those in the public trials, namely max speeds of 15.5 miles per hour and automatic lights. Autonomous vehicles.

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