March 11, 2021 Dear Senators Rubio, Hawley, Braun, and Lee, Thank you for your letter dated February 24, 2021. As a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable. Amazon works hard to ensure customers have a great […]
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Parler says it’s still trying to get back into Apple’s good graces after tech titan reportedly rejected its bid to return to the app store. The controversial social network has spent two months trying to address the iPhone maker’s concerns about violent content that got the Parler app booted from […]
Parler filed a new lawsuit against Amazon over the tech titan’s decision to boot the social network from its servers following January’s Capitol riots. The controversial startup filed the complaint in Washington state court on Tuesday, the same day it dropped the federal antitrust suit it brought against Amazon’s cloud-computing […]
An image sent back to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows the tread tracks left behind by its first drive on Mars on March 4. (NASA / JPL-Caltech) Fifteen years after her death, Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler has joined an exclusive pantheon of space luminaries memorialized on Mars. […]
Parler has dropped the antitrust lawsuit it brought against Amazon after the tech titan booted the right-wing social network from its servers. In a three-page court filing, Parler said it was voluntarily dismissing its scathing January complaint accusing Amazon’s cloud computing unit of forcing its website offline out of “political […]
The book When Harry Became Sally came out in 2018 and was a bestseller and looked at ‘public policy on gender identity and the human costs of getting it wrong’ A group of Republican Senators have written to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demanding answers as to why a book that […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Weather data company ClimaCell announced plans Feb. 24 to launch dozens of radar satellites. “We are building the first of its kind proprietary satellites equipped with radar, and launching them into space to improve weather monitoring and forecasting capabilities,” Shimon Elkabetz, ClimaCell CEO and co-founder, said in […]
To the Editor — SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, was discovered in late 2019 and its sequence made public1 on 10 January 2020. Recently, a number of viral variants have been identified, such as B.1.1.7 in the United Kingdom, B.1.351 in South Africa and P.1 in Brazil, with the potential for increased…