Nikolai Yakovenko takes a peek at his hand, his facial expression paused, posture slightly slouched. With $30,000 on the table, the flop is revealed – ten of hearts, seven of spades, six of hearts. An $80,000 bet is placed. Yakovenko begins to crunch the numbers in his head, conjuring up the hand's possible outcomes and their likelihoods. Moments later, he has his answer – 42%, his chance of victory.

A new report reveals that robots working in Amazon fulfillment centers are leading to more injuries among human employees - although the e-commerce giant claims the technology reduces incidents. Based on internal records from 150 warehouses, serious injuries were 50 percent higher at facilities with robots than those without, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting's news site, Reveal. There were 14,000 serious injuries in 2019 - a spike of nearly 33 percent from 2015, and nearly double the industry average. The overall injury rate for the 150 facilities was also almost double the industry standard, according to Reveal. Amazon insisted its numbers are inflated because it encourages workers to report even minor incidents.

Strict laws, lack of shops and pandemic-related delays are making it harder for Americans to purchase guns in crime-ridden cities; attorney and gun rights activist Colion Noir weighs in. Authorities said a man from Boston had a stun gun pulled on him Tuesday morning, as he was being robbed by a woman he met through an online dating app. The unidentified man rendezvoused with the young woman at a local hotel, the Associated Press reported. He told police the two talked for about 30 minutes before she pointed a Taser stun gun at him and began rifling through his pockets. She allegedly stole $100 in cash before law enforcement was called in.

And then there are really bad dates. A Washington state woman with a pink taser was arrested on Tuesday after she was accused of trying to hold up a man she had met online, Boston police said. Selena Rivera-Apodaca, 24, of Kent, Wash., is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on Wednesday on a charge of armed robbery. Shortly before noon on Tuesday, officers went to the Hyatt Regency Hotel at 1 Avenue De LaFayette in response to a radio call about an armed robbery. When they arrived, police said, officers were met by a man who said he had met a woman on an online dating app.

Do you ever feel as if your voice assistants – whether Siri, Alexa, or Google – don't understand you? You might repeat your question a little slower, a little louder, but eventually you'll get the information you were asking for read back to you in the pleasing but lifeless tones of your voice-activated assistant. That's the question facing many of the 3 million people in the United States who stutter, plus the thousands of others who have impaired speech not limited to stuttering, and many are feeling left out. "When this stuff first started coming out, I was all over it," said Jacquelyn Joyce Revere, a screenwriter from Los Angeles who stutters. "In LA, I need GPS all the time, so this seemed like a more convenient way to live the life I want to live."

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Thousands of people showed up Wednesday for a chance to pack and ship products to Amazon customers, as the e-commerce company held a giant job fair at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. Although the wages offered will make it hard for some to make ends meet, many of the candidates were excited by the prospect of health insurance and other benefits, as well as advancement opportunities. It's common for Amazon to ramp up its shipping center staff in August to prepare for holiday shopping. But the magnitude of its current hiring spree underscores Amazon's growth when traditional retailers are closing stores -- and blaming Amazon for a shift to buying goods online. Amazon said it received "a record-breaking 20,000 applications" and hired thousands of people on the spot, and will hire more in the coming days.

Amazon.com will hire thousands of new full-time employees on-the-spot to fill 50,000 available fulfillment network positions during its first "Amazon Jobs Day," August 2, 2017. Amazon is holding a giant job fair Wednesday, Aug. 2, and plans to make thousands of job offers on the spot at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. Though it's common for Amazon to ramp up its shipping center staff in August to prepare for holiday shopping, the magnitude of the hiring spree underscores Amazon's growth when traditional retailers are closing stores -- and blaming Amazon for a shift to buying goods online. Amazon planned to hire thousands of people on the spot. Nearly 40,000 of the 50,000 packing, sorting and shipping jobs at Amazon will be full time.

Good news for road warriors: Keeping track of travel expenses is getting a whole lot easier. From mobile apps with voice recognition to online travel-booking sites, new technology is allowing employees to record and create expense reports on the fly as they travel, so they don't have to spend as much time after the fact tallying up their costs. The innovations are reducing one of the biggest headaches business travelers face: keeping track of receipts, submitting expense reports on time and facing questions about the legitimacy of certain charges. "I am so glad the days of having to carry around and protect receipts are over," says Michael Jacobs, chief procurement officer for office-supply company Staples Inc., which uses expense-processing technology from Coupa Software. In addition to streamlining expense reporting, the tools are helping organizations save money by making it easier for employees to comply with company travel policies.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon's Jeff Bezos is a Star Trek-loving space geek, but unlike Elon Musk, he's got no plans on for heading to Mars. People haven't really thought this through," he said. Bezos spent 45 minutes in a convivial public conversation at the Washington Post's Transformers Conference in Washington D.C., which was also webcast live. He was interviewed by Martin Baron, executive editor of the Post, which he bought in 2013. After a few jokes about whether or not he'd have a job when the conversation was done, Baron asked Bezos about Amazon's Echo device and its cloud-based voice recognition agent Alexa. The Echo got more competition Wednesday in Mountain View, Calif. Amazon's CEO said the original inspiration for the Echo was the talking computers of Star Trek. While the Echo team is still quite a ways away from reaching that goal, he didn't feel too badly because after all, Star Trek was set more than 250 years in the future. "We still have a couple of centuries, but I don't think we'll need that much time," Bezos said. Bezos said he grew up playing pretend Star Trek every day with his friends when he was in fourth grade in Houston. "We would fight over who got to be Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock, and somebody played the computer too.