Month: September 2023
Amazon confirms it’s backing away from charging an extra seller fee
Amazon PR manager Jonathan Hillson told The Verge in an email that “the 2% Seller Fulfilled Prime fee was intended to cover our costs,” but added that the company decided not to move forward because it was afraid “seller sentiment related to the fee” could affect participation in the program.…
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Facebook changed its logo — see if you can tell the difference
Meta is updating Facebook’s “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo. Just kidding! It’s basically exactly the same as the last one, except the blue is a darker blue, and the lowercase “f” has a few subtle tweaks. You can see the new logo next to the most…
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Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys
Shown a copy of Musk’s remarks on X about Neuralink’s animal subjects being “close to death already,” a former Neuralink employee alleges to WIRED the claim is “ridiculous” if not a “straight fabrication.” “We had these monkeys for a year or so before any surgery was performed,” they say. The…
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The US is going to restart its free at-home covid test kit program
The US government will again offer free at-home covid tests starting September 25th, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Wednesday. The kits are intended for use through the end of 2023; as with previous versions of the free test program, the kits will include four…
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Intel says the future of chips will depend on the same material you’re looking at right now
Intel will be using glass in its manufacturing process by the end of the decade to pack up to 30 trillion transistors into a single chip. The hardware breakthrough, announced at Intel Innovation 2023, will see the ‘glass core substrate technology’ replacing the organic resin it currently uses as the…
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Amazon leaders were ‘okay’ with people being secretly signed up for Prime, lawsuit alleges
The original lawsuit, filed in June, claimed that Amazon had tricked millions into unwittingly subscribing to Prime through buttons that were presented prominently during checkout. The FTC added new details to back up its claims on Wednesday, including internal messages and the names of three senior Amazon leaders who allegedly…
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