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Looking for a Job? Amazon is Now Hiring 120,000 People

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Looking for a Job? Amazon is Now Hiring 120,000 People

Amazon is about to go on a hiring spree. The e-commerce giant plans to add more than 120,000 workers for the upcoming holiday shopping season. On Thursday, the company announces it will hire positions in its fulfillment centers, customer service sites, and sorting facilities. While many of the jobs are temporary, some spots could turn into permanent positions.

Amazon has been hiring individuals for the last couple of months. In August, the company held a one-day job fair aimed at employing 50,000 people.

As analysts predict holiday sales are expected to hit $1 trillion with over $100 billion in online shopping, Amazon is preparing to handle the holiday rush.

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SAN FRANCISCO – OCTOBER 11: Amazon logo on black shiny wall in mall California October 11, 2015. Amazon is a American international electronic commerce company and world’s largest online retailer. (Eric Broder Van Dyke / Shutterstock.com)

According to CBS News, Amazon is planning on hiring people in the following states:

  • Alabama    
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • Wisconsin

Large retailers and shipping firms are staffing up this year to handle the surge of businesses. But, Amazon is not alone. Target said it would hire 100,000 workers, Macy’s plans to hire 80,000 temporary employees and UPS said they would add 145,000 employees.

Facebook Plans To Share More Information on The Russian Ads

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Facebook Plans To Share More Information on The Russian Ads

Facebook is calling for U.S. lawmakers to let the world see the ads linked to Russian accounts and advertised during the 2016 election. The social network is also willing to explain the ad targeting to the public as well.

Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook’s chief operating officer. On Thursday, she announced her company’s willingness for more transparency during an interview with Axios’ Mike Allen. It was the first public interview of a Facebook executive since the website announced it had sold thousands of ads linked to Russian account last month.

The House Intelligence Committee leaders said Wednesday they are willing to release the ads after meeting with Sandberg, according to a report by Politico. However, Facebook also wants the public to understand who was shown the ads.

“When the ads get released, we will also be releasing the targeting for those ads,” Sandberg said Thursday. 

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Laguna Niguel, CA, USA; Tuesday, Oct. 7th, 2014; Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook speaks at the 2014 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. (Krista Kennell / Shutterstock.com)

Facebook revealed in October that about 10 million people could have seen the Russian-bought political advertisements. But, Facebook is not alone. Twitter and Google were reportedly linked to the Russian propaganda campaign.

Sandberg did not explain whether the Russian ads and the Trump campaign were associated despite being asked by Allen on several times.

That said, Facebook hoped they discovered these ads earlier. Facebook came forward with information in September and shared it with the FBI special investigation into the hacking of the 2016 election by Robert Mueller. The company shared the data after being requested by Senator Mark Warner.  “We wish we had found it before it ever happened,” Sandberg said. 

Facebook agreed earlier this month to testify before the Senate and the House on November 1st. Twitter, who also discovered hundreds of accounts linked to Russia, also plans to testify.

PornHub Was Reportedly Hacked

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PornHub Was Reportedly Hacked

PornHub receives 80 million visitors a day, but the website may have been hacked. According to Independent, Pornhub was hacked. The news outlet reports a secret advertisement has been running on the site for more than a year. The ad would infiltrate a user’s computer and then have their device taken over, without their knowledge. While the problem was shut down as soon as it was discovered, Independent writer Andrew Griffin suggests “the damage could have spread across the Internet.”

The hack worked by showing a user an advertisement on the website that appeared to be a browser or operating system update. A user would mistakenly click the ad and install the software. Once it was installed, the software could take over a users’ computer and use it to click on fake ads, putting the owner’s safety in jeopardy. Independent reports, Proofpoint, a cybersecurity firm, discovered the software.

“While the payload, in this case, is ad fraud malware, it could just as easily have been ransomware, an information stealer, or any other malware,” Proofpoint said. “Regardless, threat actors are following the money and looking to more effective combinations of social engineering, targeting and pre-filtering to infect new victims at scale.”

This news comes after the website invested in artificial intelligence to help millions of visitors find the right content they are looking for. Instead of hiring someone to go through the hundreds of thousands of videos and tag them by hand the company his hiring machines to do it instead.

“Ultimately, we want to provide our fans with whatever it is they have a penchant for and our new model will be able to surface more accurate results for them, which will hopefully keep them coming back for more,” said Corey Price, PHub VP. “It’s all about continuously updating our platform to provide our fans with the latest in technology to make their experience on our platform as seamless as possible. The easier it is to navigate and access what they want, the happier they will be.”

The computer program can identify specific actors in scenes and even various positions and physical attributes. While it is difficult to describe the set of features of the machine-learning application, the system can identify individual performers in real time.

“So far we’ve used the model on about 500k featured videos which include user submitted and we plan to scan the whole library in the beginning of 2018,” said Price. “Very shortly, the technology will also be used to detect various sex positions / categories and be able to properly tag them as well.”

PornHub is reinventing facial detection and categorizing videos and images based on various attributes. That means you will be able to search and find content based on characteristics and names.

China’s Alibaba Invests $15 Billion in Future Technology

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China’s Alibaba Invests $15 Billion in Future Technology

China’s Alibaba is investing $15 billion into a network of research groups with a mission to challenge Silicon Valley’s dominance in technology.

Alibaba announced on Wednesday that the investment would be used to create research labs over the next three years around the world. The goal of the $15 billion investment is to focus on future technology such as quantum computing and the Internet-of-Things.

That said, Amazon, Alibaba’s most significant global competitor, invested $16 billion into technology research and development last year. In fact, Amazon is already planning on using drones, cashier-less stores, and other future technology to innovate how the world buy and sell products.

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New York City, USA – November 11, 2015: Sign at the New York Stock Exchange as the e-commerce company the Alibaba Group records blockbuster Single’s Day sales in New York City. (Christopher Penler / Shutterstock.com)

Ultimately, billionaire tech leaders are always focused on the future. Jack Ma, the CEO of Alibaba, predicts the world will use robots and artificial intelligence to change the world fundamentally.

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CIRCA APRIL 2014 – BERLIN: the logo of the brand “Alibaba”, Berlin. (360b / Shutterstock, Inc.)

Alibaba has also diversified their business by investing in start-ups such as the ride-sharing platform Didi Chuxing and the bike-sharing app ofo. Also, the company has expanded beyond online-retail with cloud services, online payment platforms, and grocery stores. Given the company’s wide-array of businesses, investing in future technology just makes sense.

Is Facebook Down? #FacebookDown Goes Viral As Some Users Experience Issues

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Is Facebook Down? #FacebookDown Goes Viral As Some Users Experience Issues

Facebook users have experienced an outage Wednesday morning. Users report being unable to use the website and other users report the website’s functionality such as the “post” box was not working.

The outage of the network was tracked by the website Down Detector, where users continue to report issues with the platform.

According to a statement from Facebook to CNET, the social networking website said they are acknowledging that some users are experiencing trouble.

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram,” a Facebook representative told CNET. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”

That said, users took to Twitter with the #FacebookDown to poke fun at the website’s issues.

Model in ‘Racist’ Dove Ad Says She is “Not a Victim”

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Model in ‘Racist’ Dove Ad Says She is “Not a Victim”

Loa Ogunyemi, the Nigerian model who starred in a Dove ad that has been called racist, has come to the defense of the commercial, claiming that the image that has gone viral misrepresents the ad.

“There is a lack of trust here, and I feel the public was justified in their initial outrage,” Ogunyemi wrote in The Guardian on Tuesday, admitting that Dove has been criticized for this same issue in the past. “Having said that, I can also see that a lot has been left out. The narrative has been written without giving consumers context on which to base an informed opinion.”

A clip of the commercial showing Ogunyemi removing a skin-toned shirt and becoming a white woman went viral over the weekend. Many people bashed the ad for equating whiteness for cleanliness.

Dove later pulled the commercial campaign and issued an apology saying the company’s and had “missed the mark.”

“I know that the beauty industry has fueled this opinion with its long history of presenting lighter, mixed-race or white models as the beauty standard,” Ogunyemi wrote. “This repressive narrative is one I have seen affect women from many different communities I’ve been a part of. “

Ogunyemi claims the full 30-second ad featured seven women of “different races and ages,” showing that there are many different skin types.

“I loved it, and everyone around me seemed to as well. I think the full TV edit does a much better job of making the campaign’s message loud and clear,” she wrote.

Ogunyemi added that she is “not just some silent victim of a mistaken beauty campaign.” She added that the company should have “defended their creative vision, and their choice to include [Ogunyemi], an unequivocally dark-skinned black woman, as a face of their campaign.”

‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Will Film Until Next Summer

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‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Will Film Until Next Summer

Earlier this year it was reported that Game of Thrones season 8 may not air until 2019, thanks to the extensive production schedule for the hit HBO TV series. Now, Liam Cunningham, the actor who plays Ser Davos Seaworth has confirmed this report.

According to an interview with TV Guide, Cunningham revealed that the shooting schedule, which only lasts around six months and wraps in December, will be longer than ever before:

“[The episodes are] definitely going to be bigger and what I hear is longer. We’re filming right up until the summer. When you think about it, up until last season we’d have six months to do ten episodes, so we’re [doing] way more than that for six episodes. So that obviously will translate into longer episodes.”

This news comes after Game of Thrones is reportedly casting several speaking roles for the new and final season of the hit TV series. According to Project Casting, casting directors are now casting several new parts for the last season. These characters reportedly include:

  • Mercenary, aged 35-50. This guy is “an authoritative, fit, cool and charismatic military type.” He needs to to be able to ride a horse and will appear in two episodes of season 8. Since there are only six episodes to go around this year, every one counts.
  • Northern farmer, aged 25 – 35. This guy is a “straightforward honest man of simple tastes.” He’s just folk, y’all. He’ll shoot the week of November 17th.
  • Sassy and attractive girl, aged 18 – 25. This is another small Northern role; this character will film the week of November 6 and play opposite leading cast members in a “memorable” scene.
  • Northern sentry, aged 18 – 25. This is another role with scenes opposite leading cast members. HBO wants “a characterful young Northern actor with great timing.” He’ll shoot in the first week December.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 20, 2015: “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre LA Live.
  • Sailor, aged 35- 50. “He’s a rough-and-ready sea-faring type with a weathered face and strong presence.” This character will film scenes the week of December 11. With Euron still in the mix, odds are he’s a member of the Ironborn.
  • Guard #1 is a physically fit 20-something who’s good in a fight. He’ll be shooting the first week of December. 
  • Guard #2 is a tall, athletic 30-something. He’s professional, dependable and has one line opposite leading cast members. He’ll shoot on November 1 and 2 in Spain, which is notable because it lets us know that the production will return to Spain.

There is a lot to expect in the final season of Game of Thrones, especially if the show wants to live up to its huge fan base, excite and standards it has set over the past seven seasons.

Hey Confederate Statue Supporters, John Oliver Has a Message for You (VIDEO)

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Hey Confederate Statue Supporters, John Oliver Has a Message for You (VIDEO)

Statues of Confederate soldiers and leaders is still a hot-button issue in many Southern states, cities, and community. Some groups support the monuments saying the Civil War is not about slavery and should be honored to recognize previous historical figures.

John Oliver had something to say to those groups. On Sunday, the HBO late night host spent the night program explaining why they are wrong. Oliver called out the issues with that argument and also came up with a perfect solution for Confederate statue supporters.

You can check out the video above.

McDonald’s Stock Rises After ‘Rick and Morty’ Szechuan Sauce Promo Campaign

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McDonald’s Stock Rises After ‘Rick and Morty’ Szechuan Sauce Promo Campaign

McDonald’s faced the wrath of Rick and Morty fans when the fast-food chained didn’t provide enough Szechuan McNugget sauce on Saturday.

On Saturday, October 7th, several McDonald’s locations across the U.S. gave away Szechuan Sauce, in response to an episode and outcry from fans of the Adult Swim cartoon. That said, the demand for the sauce far exceeded the supply.

According to Business Insider, by 1:45 p.m. at a McDonald’s in New York City, teens exited the restaurant screaming that there was no sauce left. Many people lined up the stores to get a taste of the Szechuan sauce. That said, there was a report of only 20 to 40 packets per locations.

McDonald’s took to Twitter to respond to the public outcry for more of the Szechuan sauce. “The best fans in the multiverse showed us what they got today. We hear you & we’re sorry not everyone could get some super-limited Szechuan,” the company explained.

The demand was so intense; police had to be called to at least one location to handle angry crowds.

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CHICAGO, IL – MARCH 31, 2016: inside portrait of the worker in the Rock N Roll McDonald’s. The Original Rock N Roll McDonald’s is a flagship McDonald’s restaurant located in Chicago, Illinois (Sorbis / Shutterstock.com)

This news comes after an increasing demand for the sauce following the Rick and Morty episode debuted on Adult Swim, with the restaurant chain releasing three jars of the rare Mulan sauce in a Twitter contest. One fan ended up selling his jar of Szechuan sauce to DJ Deadmau5 for an undisclosed amount after an auction for more than $4,000 fell through.

While the move may seem unexpected for those, who do not watch Rick and Morty, which featured a joke about the sauce in a season three premiere that aired on April Fool’s Day. Ultimately, the sauce went viral with demands for McDonald’s to bring the sauce back.

Despite the public backlash, Wall Street seems to see the demand for a packet of sauce as a good sign to invest in the company as the company’s stock is trading higher by afternoon trading with a rise of 0.50% to a stock price of $160.21

Report: Google Discovers Russia-Backed Ads on YouTube, Gmail

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Report: Google Discovers Russia-Backed Ads on YouTube, Gmail

Google has discovered Russians spent thousands of dollars on advertisements on YouTube, Gmail and other Google advertising to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a new report by Reuters.

On Monday, Reuters revealed that Russian operatives purchased advertisements to influence the 2016 Presidential election. In the report, the Russian affiliated group that bought ads on Facebook, Inc. were different than the team that purchased ads on Google.

Reuters’ source told the news agency that less than $100,000 in advertisement spending was linked to Russian operatives.

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This will most likely add fuel to the fire surrounding the role Silicon Valley tech giants may have had on the U.S. presidential election. U.S. intelligence agencies have previously concluded Moscow wanted to help elect Donald Trump and both Twitter and Facebook have found Russian operatives used their platform to buy ads and post content to influence the election.

A content farm called the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia used these social networking platforms as a way to influence Americans during the Presidential election. According to Reuters, the Internet Research Agency hired hundreds of “trolls” to post pro-Kremlin content under fake social media accounts that posed to be American or European.

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Facebook revealed last month that the company had found $100,000 in spending by the agency and has since pledged to become more transparent about their ad transactions.

Meanwhile, Reuters reports that Google plans to have a more thorough investigation than Facebook or Twitter. In a statement to Reuters, a Google spokeswoman explained, “We are taking a deeper look to investigate attempts to abuse our systems, working with researchers and other companies, and will provide assistance to ongoing inquiries.”

Congressional committees have launched several investigations into the Russian interference in the U.S. presidential elections.

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