Jobs for everyone. After a grueling public process involving bids from over 200 cities…oh, wait, no. Apple skipped all that hullabaloo generated by Amazon’s HQ2 search and simply selected Austin, Texas, as the site of its new $1 billion major campus. “Talent, creativity, and tomorrow’s breakthrough ideas aren’t limited by region or zip code,” CEO Tim Cook noted. The company also said it would expand hiring at other U.S. offices.
Collectively bargained jobs. Speaking of Amazon, a group of workers in the company’s Staten Island, N.Y. fulfillment center on Wednesday said they planned to form a union. In a press conference, representatives from the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union spoke about labor organizing at various Amazon locations. “We respect employees’ right to choose to join or not join a labor union,” Amazon said.
Who gets the job? After complaining that the fix was in on the selection of a cloud services provider for a $10 billion, 10-year Pentagon contract, Oracle is putting its money where its mouth is. The company is suing to overturn the decision to grant the project, known as JEDI, to Amazon. IBM has also been protesting the selection.
Counting crocodiles. As podcasting continues to grow into a real business, advertisers are seeking better data. National Public Radio this week unveiled an open source system called “Remote Audio Data,” or RAD, which any podcast can use to track how many people listen and how far into the show they listen. Information is anonymized, and podcast apps will have to build in support for the reporting system.
Look what you made me do. Combining two topics of great interest to Data Sheet readers, Rolling Stone has discovered that a photo kiosk at a Taylor Swift concert at the Rose Bowl in May was using facial recognition software to check fans’ faces against a database of “known stalkers” of the singer.
Trust us. After surviving a grueling hearing on Capitol Hill, Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke with reporters from the Washington Post, mostly about artificial intelligence. You may not be shocked to learn that he favors industry self-regulation of A.I. rather than new laws. “Regulating a technology in its early days is hard, but I do think companies should self-regulate,” Pichai said. “This is why we’ve tried hard to articulate a set of A.I. principles. We may not have gotten everything right, but we thought it was important to start a conversation.”
Featherweight. New laptops debut all the time, but I had to double check the specs on LG‘s latest 17-inch model because I couldn’t believe my eyes. The $1,700 machine, which includes an 8th-gen Intel processor and a screen running at a native resolution of 2560 pixels by 1600 pixels, weighs less than three pounds. Now that’s an ultralight.
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