Photo: Getty After months of fierce opposition from local leaders, the New York Times reports that Amazon has decided to pull out of its plans to place a new satellite headquarters in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. While some polls showed New Yorkers generally in favor of the project—which was projected…

These recommendations as further detailed in the report include: Obtaining federal investment in rural business development Getting governments and universities to fund job retraining and re-skilling alongside corporations Asking communities to pay unemployment in up-front lump sums, “mobility grants,” or providing a “small” “job-seeker’s allowance” to displaced workers, and to back “credentialing” of non-full-time (and…

Image: Karly Domb Sadof (AP) Facebook wields unparalleled power when it comes to the amount of data it collects on its billions of users—this we know. But thanks to all that information it hoovers up across its various services, the company is also able to use said data to track individuals it deems as posing…

Image: Matt Rourke (AP) Even Twitter knows there is something fundamentally broken about its platform. But what if users could just, uh, clarify their bad tweets? This was an idea evidently presented by Twitter CEO and witness to goat slaughter Jack Dorsey while speaking at a Goldman Sachs event in San Francisco on Thursday. According…