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One Degree Friday August 27 2021

People Liked Malls

Since 2005, Amazon has changed how virtually every American shops. That February, the company launched Prime, the first-of-its-kind, lightning-fast subscription delivery service that now has an estimated 147 million members in the United States. Along the way, Amazon invented its own shopping holiday, assembled an army of couriers schlepping your packages in the trunks of their cars, and turned toilet paper into the kind of thing that people have sent to their homes by the case. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, has made enough money to launch himself into space. Now we appear to know what Amazon’s next great innovation might be: building department stores.

THE ATLANTIC

This radical new browser will transform your relationship with tabs

SigmaOS isn’t the first startup to try reinventing the web browser, but it might be the weirdest.

FAST COMPANY

Canada turns to satirical Indigenous website to interpret grim news

Days after the statues of two British monarchs were toppled in the province of Manitoba amid growing fury over the legacy of Canada’s residential school system, where Indigenous children were forcibly sent for much of the 20th century, the website Walking Eagle News had its own take – not so much on the grief and outrage, but on the fixation with statues.

THE GUARDIAN

Some businesses set to ignore vaccine cards

The owner of Bad Tattoo Brewing in downtown Penticton has joined a growing chorus of B.C. businesses leaders who are speaking out about their concerns surrounding the launch of vaccine cards.
PENTICTON NEWS
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