This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, October 4th. I'm Zoe ...

Amazon used a secret algorithm to essentially help raise prices on other online sites and also "destroyed" internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission undertook an antitrust investigation ...

In aviation, the black box is a source of knowledge: a receptacle of crucial data that might help investigators understand catastrophe. In technology, a black box is the absence of knowledge: a ...

Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites and “destroyed” some internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission was investigating the ...

Amazon used a secret algorithm to essentially help raise prices on other online sites and also “destroyed” internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission undertook an antitrust investigation ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Increasingly, businesses are overseeing their staff armed with data ...

Amazon used a secret algorithm to essentially help raise prices on other online sites and also “destroyed” internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission undertook an antitrust investigation ...

Of Amazon’s many problematic policies, its worst tend to be concentrated around how the corporation treats its workers. We’re now finding out that Amazon’s HR department is even more impersonal than ...

When the Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon in September, accusing the e-commerce giant of using illegal tactics to maintain its monopoly, a key thrust of its complaint was that Amazon’s tactics ...

SEATTLE — As vaccine misinformation has prompted some to say they will refuse to be inoculated against the coronavirus, the world’s largest online retailer remains a hotbed for anti-vaccination ...

Amazon might be using its algorithm to hire and fire its contractual flex delivery drivers, according to a recent report. The process involves minimal human intervention, which means that drivers ...