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Backpack showdown – Peak Design vs. Think Tank

Backpack showdown – Peak Design vs. Think Tank Final verdict–which one to buy? Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jqvrEC Peak Design’s Everyday Backpack and ThinkTank’s ShapeShifter v2.0 get put to the test by USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham. LOS ANGELES – I’ve been talking a lot about backpacks lately here–today, I offer a verdict on which one makes the nearly $300 cut for me.

How Amazon.com Is Becoming the Kind of Retailer It Hurt

In what seems like an ironic twist, Amazon.com is setting up bricks-and-mortar stores, but the company has some high-tech tricks up its sleeve that could transform the shopping experience. As more and more bricks-and-mortar stores beef up their online platforms, Amazon.com is rerouting its online audience to the very physical market it once disrupted .

Amazon Expects To Add 100,000 New Jobs By 2018

Amazon.com on Thursday said it would expand its full-time U.S.-based workforce to 280,000 by mid-2018, from 180,000 last year. Over the past five years, Amazon says it’s created more than 150,000 jobs in the U.S., growing its workforce from 30,000 in 2011.

Tesla’s Head of Autopilot Departs as Musk Hires Apple Engineer

Tesla Motors Inc.’s head of Autopilot, the driver-assist system packaged with its Model S and Model X electric cars, has left the company as a top engineer from Apple Inc. joins as chief of software. Sterling Anderson, director of Autopilot programs since November 2015, departed Palo Alto, California-based Tesla in December, his LinkedIn page shows.

Apple shows why no robot can replace cashiers

Ever since Amazon.com debuted a grocery store without a checkout line, the world has been forced to ponder a jobless future. Located in the company’s home town, Seattle, Amazon Go looks every bit like a 7-Eleven, selling bread, milk, and cheese as well as pre-made snacks and fresh meals, except there are no cashiers or checkout lines.

Sony planning VR beyond gaming, says Hirai

The PlayStation VR is Sony’s biggest and boldest push yet into virtual reality, but consumers can expect more from the company in the TV and music realms, its CEO said in Las Vegas on Wednesday. “With PlayStation VR, we were able to provide you dramatic, transformational gaming experiences and our ambitions for VR are not limited just to gaming,” said Kaz Hirai at a news conference at the CES show.

The US just imposed sanctions on Russia over election hacks

President Barack Obama’s administration has imposed sanctions on Russia’s two top intelligence services and it’s ejected 35 Russian intelligence officials from the US. This is in response to Russia’s repeated , documented hacks of the US election system throughout 2016, and it marks the strongest-ever American response to a state-sponsored cyber attack, The New York Times reports.

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Calithera Biosciences Announce Clinical…

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Calithera Biosciences , Inc. , a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel small molecule drugs directed against tumor metabolism and tumor immunology targets for the treatment of cancer, today announced a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo in combination with Calithera’s CB-839 in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma . CB-839 is an orally administered glutaminase inhibitor currently in Phase 1/2 clinical studies.