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How Amazon's quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

Jay Greene
Nov 17, 2019 6:00 AM - Amazon executives have publicly lamented the scourge of counterfeits, saying they have spent hundreds of millions and hired thousands of workers to police its massive market of third-party firms which use the e-commerce site to sell their goods. But Amazon's system is failing to staunch the flow of dubious goods even with obvious examples of knockoffs.
Pokemon is everywhere now. Long live Pokemon.

Cian Maher
Nov 17, 2019 7:30 AM - Pokémon is the highest-grossing entertainment franchise of all time. Having acquired a whopping $90 billion since its conception in 1995, it continues to grow in popularity, its demographic constantly widening at an unprecedented rate.
Dell aims to make women half of workforce in diversity push

Nico Grant
Nov 17, 2019 6:09 AM - Dell is among a number of technology companies that have mapped out grand pledges for a more diverse workforce.
How an app helped Beijing fix its pollution problem

Condé Nast Traveller
Nov 16, 2019 4:42 PM - Beijing is likely to exit the list of the world's 200 most polluted cities. And the Blue Map app has played a key role in helping citizens hold polluting industries to account. Is there a lesson for Delhi and other world capitals?
As smartphones begin using scanned IDs, skeptics cite glitches, misuse and a growing surveillance culture

Heather Kelly
Nov 16, 2019 6:19 AM - A small but passionate group of smartphone owners are resisting the recent wave of biometric security features, such as Apple's facial recognition technology and Samsung's iris and facial scans. Instead, they're sticking with passcodes or unlock patterns.
Business students use virtual reality to prepare for boardrooms

Peter Holley
Nov 16, 2019 6:00 AM - In the business world, where relationship-building is essential, "soft" skills -- personal confidence, negotiation, active listening, calm and flexibility -- can play an outsize role. But they're often treated like inborn traits. At Fordham University this semester, business professors are challenging this notion with a high-tech teaching tool: virtual reality.
Malware developers are betting you'll be fooled by 'Donald Trump Screen of Death'

Marie C. Baca
Nov 16, 2019 6:12 AM - The "Donald Trump Screen of Death" or a dancing Hillary Clinton are just some of hundreds of politically-themed malware programs that are circulating the Internet.
Are video games art? We asked three developers. Here's how they answered.

Joe Moore
Nov 16, 2019 6:20 AM - Film critic Roger Ebert famously stated that "games cannot be art," though he later softened his stance. For developers, the question of whether video games are technically an art form has a more complicated answer.
The future of autonomous delivery may be unfolding in an unlikely place: the suburbs

Peter Holley
Nov 16, 2019 6:22 AM - Officials at Nuro, a robotics company, say they were also drawn to Houston for the complexity of its metropolitan environment, a puzzle of independent communities, each with its own road conditions, zoning ordinances, parking rules and traffic laws. Some neighborhoods offer wide lanes and little traffic, others are narrow and perpetually hectic -- providing the company's robotic software a massive variety of testing conditions.
Dell unveils subscription model to counter Amazon, Microsoft

Nico Grant
Nov 16, 2019 6:09 AM - Dell Technologies Inc. will offer business clients more flexible, on-demand buying options for products like servers and personal computers, seeking to counter the lure of cloud services from Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

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