Bezos’s billions still can’t buy cool
After four less-than-dazzling years, Amazon Fresh UK is closing
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The rise of the robot recruiter
AI is taking over the hiring process, but is this making the job-search fairer?
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The Amazon guide to burnout
Kristi Coulter’s account of her 12-year career at the tech firm lays bare the toxic work culture of the 2010s.
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Lydia Davis’s war on Amazon
The short-story writer on why the tech giant’s profit-seeking is corrupting culture.
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The billion-dollar battle to make The Rings of Power
Tolkien family infighting, Hollywood lawsuits and Jeff Bezos, unexpected Middle-earth nerd – the long road to Amazon’s Lord of the…
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The Rings of Power is bold, beautiful and thrilling television
Amazon bet on its Lord of the Rings prequel, the most expensive TV show ever made. It paid off.
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Amazon’s worker surveillance “leads to extreme stress and anxiety”
Academics have warned MPs that the use of connected tech in the workplace needs to be better regulated.
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Why Amazon is raising the price of Prime in a cost-of-living crisis
The retail giant has found it can hold out no longer as the cost of fuel, packaging and shipping rises.
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Amazon’s Arsenal documentary All or Nothing is just another corporate product
These press-released, drama-free films could be sold along with all the other merch at the Emirates Stadium.
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Prime Day: How Amazon became an everything company
Prime membership has helped Amazon become McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, Facebook and Google all rolled into one.
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How I learned to ditch Amazon and fall in love with books again
After years of mindlessly buying the books I thought I should read, my local bookshop helped me to discover my…
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How Amazon surrendered in its war on bookshops
The e-commerce giant has increased its prices, while the number of independent booksellers continues to rise.
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Danger, dehydration and doorbells: what it’s like delivering Christmas shopping for Amazon
For Amazon drivers, the festive season is a time of precarious employment and unsustainable workloads handed out by unseen algorithms.
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Amazon Prime fantasy series The Wheel of Time is a colossal waste of time and money
Can this derivative series really have cost $10m an episode to make? I went into a kind of death spiral…
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It’s the tech giants, not socialist politicians, who are coming for our liberty
As algorithms take over our lives, the issue of Big Tech censorship can no longer be dismissed as a fringe…
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