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With facial recognition payments and 30 minute online deliveries, this supermarket chain is about being ‘insanely convenient’ for the client.

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By Harrison Jacobs

With a valuation over $500 billion, Chinese tech giant Alibaba is second and then Amazon in e-commerce. But it’s seeking the offline world to keep growing.

A long time before Amazon purchased Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, Alibaba was forging into physical retail with investments in supermarket SunArt, department store operator InTime, electronics seller Suning, and furniture store EasyHome, amongst others. Overall, Alibaba has spent $10 billion on traditional retailers since 2016.

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It’s happened to numerous people: A fresh employee walks right into a new workplace on the first day, no one knows anything about him.

My pal had among those experiences. He went to lunch on his first day with the CEO, which sounds great theoretically — after all, just how many people get to meet the big cheese on the first day? Nonetheless it quickly became apparent that the CEO hadn’t bothered to determine even my friend’s name or anything about his background. Actually, he knew nothing apart from the fact that my pal was now a worker working at the business. The lunch must have been a routine that had been treated like one.

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She discussed ‘Donkey Kong 64’ gameplay and expressed her support for both stream and the rights of transgender individuals.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fresh York Democrat, jumped on the voice chat of a Twitch stream on Sunday. It’s a notable merging of politics and gaming, but it is also only one element of an extraordinary story of protest, charity, and social network.

On Jan. 18, British Twitch streamer HBomberguy started a marathon playthrough of the Nintendo 64 game Donkey Kong 64, with the intention of raising money for the transgender charity Mermaids UK. It quickly found attention on internet sites, reaching over 25,000 simultaneous viewers and raising over $220,000 by Sunday night.

Healthcare costs are higher in the U.S. than in comparable countries, but we’re sicker and die younger. There exists a large amount of room for improvement.

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It’s pretty clear, the U.S. healthcare system is looking for a significant upgrade. Spending increased 4.3 percent in 2016 to $9,024 per capita and accounted for 17.9 percent of the GDP. To provide some perspective, Switzerland, using its comprehensive and well-organized (it really is Swiss, in the end) system came in second, with individuals paying normally $6,787, or around 75 percent of what we do.