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SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon quietly banned Adolf Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf” late last week, part of its accelerating efforts to remove Nazi and other hate-filled material from its bookstore, before quickly reversing itself. The retailer, which controls the majority of the book market in the United States, is caught between two demands that cannot be […]

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store for the week ending  3/15/2020 March 17, 2020, 5:07 PM 2 min read Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Heads Up!, Warner Bros. 3. Monopoly, Marmalade Game Studio 4. Procreate Pocket, Savage Interactive Pty Ltd 5. Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi 6. TouchRetouch, ADVA

On Monday, Amazon announced in a news release that it would hire 100,000 new workers and raise pay by $2 an hour for many employees in response to a surge in delivery orders from people staying at home to combat the spread of the coronavirus. “We are seeing a significant increase in demand, which means

Audible best-sellers for week ending March 13 March 17, 2020, 5:15 PM 3 min read Audible best-sellers for week ending March 13th: Fiction: 1. Tell Me Lies by J. P. Pomare, narrated by Aimee Horne (Audible Studios) 2. The Messengers by Lindsay Joelle, narrated by Kaliswa Brewster, Ana Reeder, Zoe Winters and Alex Weisman (Audible

It happened around the world, and now it’s happening in the United States: The more people stay home to avoid the coronavirus pandemic, the more they find themselves glued to their screens. In South Korea, as cases spiked, television viewership shot up 17 percent, according to Nielsen. Last month in Italy, the size of the

The widow of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly to space, has died at the age of 84 March 17, 2020, 6:03 PM 1 min read MOSCOW — The widow of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly to space, died Tuesday. She was 84. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced Valentina Gagarina’s death in

The schools were taking advantage of Zoom’s decision, announced last week, to make its services free for kindergarten through high schools in the United States, Italy and Japan. Zoom operates a “freemium” business model: Groups of up to 100 people can use it for 40 minutes at a time at no charge, but must pay

Amazon said Tuesday that it will only accept shipments of cleaning equipment, medical supplies and household goods from suppliers at its warehouses for next three weeks to fill surging demand By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer March 17, 2020, 4:49 PM 2 min read NEW YORK — Amazon, in an attempt to fill its warehouses

That’s why it’s so important that everyone — especially older people, students and people in low-income communities — has access to these tools. The digital divide is real, and in the coming months, those without internet access or devices that can run newer software will be shut out of many of the digital communities we’re

The European Union’s space agency says its earth-observation satellites have detected a significant reduction in the pollutant nitrogen dioxide in northern Italy, as the advance of the COVID-19 illness has led to drastic measures curtailing ordinary life March 17, 2020, 11:43 AM 2 min read BERLIN — The European Union’s space agency’s earth-observation satellites have