Sarah Zhang
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Google’s Inbox App Is Now Available For Everyone
Inbox, aka Google’s attempt at fixing the cesspool that is email, is no longer invite-only. You can download it right now at the Apple or Google Play store. To mark the occasion, Google’s also pumped out some new features, including the super-important “undo send”.
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Inside The Automated UPS Complex That Sorts 7000 Packages A Minute
Just before midnight, UPS’s Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky begins to come alive. Boeing 757s start roaring overhead. Packages whoosh by on miles of conveyer belts. Before the sun is up, 1.6 million packages will be unloaded and loaded again, sent along toward their final destinations.
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Self-Driving Trucks Are Going To Kill Jobs, And Not Just For Drivers
The first road-legal autonomous truck made a splashy debut earlier this month. The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is shiny and new, but it will not be good for everyone. Autonomous trucks will destroy jobs, Scott Santens points out at Medium, killing the truck stop as we know it.
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The World’s Oldest Stone Tools Were Not Made By Humans
Archeologists working in Kenya have discovered the world’s oldest stone tools. At 3.3 million years, they’re 700,000 years older than what were previously the most ancient stone tools ever discovered. In fact, they’re even older than humans.