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“We will not risk our safety, our health, or our lives for a company that fails to adequately protect us, fails to adequately pay us, and fails to provide us with accessible benefits should we become sick,” labor group Gig Workers Collective said Friday. … [Read more...] about Instacart, Amazon workers plan to strike over coronavirus safety concerns

The problem with the wild increase in demand for cloud services is that companies like Microsoft need to act quickly in order to keep capacity in check. One strategy that economics teaches us about managing demand is that you can increase prices, though, in times like these, price surging is wildly unpopular. Consequently, this leads cloud service providers to make significant investments to meet the short boost in demand, potentially creating an excess in capacity later, when the pandemic is over and demand drops back to normal. … [Read more...] about Microsoft Azure Demand up 775% in Social Distancing Areas

While typing isn’t a slog, there’s definitely room for improvement. Key presses have a lot of travel, but the bottoming out action is mushy. It makes for an imprecise typing experience that grows weary over time. The keyboard backlighting is also limited. It’s a single-zone and not customizable, which is rare in a gaming laptop these days. The backlighting that is offered is uneven, lighting some keys better than others. … [Read more...] about Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD drops the mic