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The iHealth at-home COVID-19 test is Amazon's best-selling clinical diagnostic test. A nasal swab is required for the rapid antigen test, and results are available within 15 minutes. The brand states that the test is appropriate for people over two years old. Those over the age of 15 can collect their own samples, while anyone between two and 14 years of age must have an adult administer the test. There’s also an app that allows you to track results for larger groups who are testing simultaneously.
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Learn how you can use Amazon Neptune's Graph Database to simplify building and running graph applications.
When Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Neptune, thousands of customers, including Samsung, Intuit and Pearson, previewed the database and used it to build social networks, recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs and drug discovery applications, according to a press release.
“Amazon Neptune efficiently stores and navigates highly connected data, allowing developers to create sophisticated, interactive graph applications that can query billions of relationships with millisecond latency,” the release continued.
Here are six ways customers can use the AWS graph database, according to AWS.
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Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable and fully managed graph database service that aims to make it easier for enterprises to build and run applications on highly connected datasets. It enables developers to create complex interactive graph applications capable of querying billions of relationships with millisecond latency.
In addition, the database helps analyze complex data relationships and supports popular graph models Property Graph and W3C’s RDF and their respective query languages, Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and SPARQL, so developers can quickly build queries that can navigate complex datasets.
Graph databases like Neptune are useful for IT pros who find themselves managing growing volumes of data and want to more easily gain insights from this information. Other companies use these databases for tasks like identity access management and master data management.
Those interested in getting started with Amazon Neptune will find that it does not require upfront costs, licenses or commitments — customers pay only for the resources they use.
Amazon Neptune users can store a graph of their network and use graph queries to answer questions like how many hosts are running a certain application. It can store and process billions of events to better manage and secure business networks and detect anomalies.
“For example, if you detect a malicious file on a host, Neptune can help you to find the connections between the hosts that spread the malicious file, and enable you to trace it to the original host that downloaded it,” the site noted.
Neptune can be used to build social networking applications thanks to its ability to quickly process large sets of user profiles and interactions. It can also run interactive graph queries with high throughput, so developers can more easily build social features into applications.
For example, when building a social feed into an app, Neptune can provide results that prioritize showing users the latest update from their family, from friends who live close by and from people whose updates they “like.”
Neptune allows developers to store relationships between information like customer interests, friends and purchase history into a graph and quickly query it to make personalized recommendations. For example, with Neptune, you can make product recommendations to a user based on others who like the same sport and have a similar purchase history.
Neptune allows developers to use relationships to process financial and purchase transactions in near real-time to more easily detect fraud patterns. It can execute fast graph queries to see if a customer is using the same email address and credit card as a known fraud case, according to the website.
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With Neptune, developers can build knowledge graph applications that allow for storing information in a graph model and using graph queries to navigate those datasets. Open-source and open-standard application programming interfaces supported by the database can help you quickly use existing information resources to build your own knowledge graphs and host them on a fully managed service.
Applications built with Neptune can store and navigate life sciences information and process sensitive data using encryption at rest. For example, with Neptune, you can store models of disease and gene interactions and search for graph patterns to find other genes that may be associated with a given disease, the site noted. Users can also create and store patient relationships from medical records across different systems.
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Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien tells "Your World with Neil Cavuto" that UPS may be delaying reporting its profits to have a better negotiating position with the union.
Shipping giants such as Amazon, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service are gearing up for a potential strike at United Parcel Service (UPS) that could begin on Aug. 1 if the company’s negotiations with the Teamsters union fail to yield a deal.
UPS and the Teamsters union are set to resume talks on Tuesday aimed at averting a strike that could throw the U.S. logistics industry into disarray if a deal isn’t reached by July 31, which is when the current Teamsters contract that covers about 340,000 full- and part-time UPS workers expires.
The significant role that UPS plays in the U.S. logistics system has raised concerns about the impact of a protracted strike on the economy if consumers and businesses see shipments delayed for an extended time.
UPS CONTRACT TALKS WITH TEAMSTERS UNION NEAR DEADLINE; DEAL COULD HIKE COMPANY’S COSTS
The shipping and logistics industry is on alert over a possible strike by the UPS Teamsters next week. (Getty Images)
An estimate of the potential economic impact of a strike by the Anderson Economic Group, a think tank that specializes in the effect of labor strikes, found that a 10-day strike by the UPS Teamsters could cause economic losses of more than $7 billion, including at least $4 billion in UPS customer losses and lost wages of more than $1 billion.
With that much money on the line, shipping companies are assessing their options for picking up the slack in the event of a strike and marshaling their resources to best serve their customers.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
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| UPS | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC. | 168.90 | +2.03 | +1.22% |
| FDX | FEDEX CORP. | 260.50 | +1.45 | +0.56% |
| AMZN | AMAZON.COM INC. | 135.52 | +1.27 | +0.95% |
E-commerce giant Amazon has in accurate years diversified its delivery channels and increased its in-house delivery capacity. That was in part due to a decision by UPS to establish a maximum package volume agreement with Amazon, which resulted in the percentage of UPS revenue derived from handling Amazon shipments declining from 13.3% in 2020 to 11.3% in 2022, according to UPS securities filings.
UPS STRIKE COULD BE MOST EXPENSIVE IN 100 YEARS
Amazon has bolstered its in-house delivery capacity in accurate years amid a cap on deliveries by UPS. (AP Photo / Steven Senne / File / AP Newsroom)
Amazon told FOX Business that while it’s aware of a potential strike by the UPS Teamsters, it doesn’t expect consumers to see much of a disturbance to their delivery timelines in the event of a strike.
"While we’re watching what is happening, we don’t expect a significant impact on customer deliveries," an Amazon spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement. "We work with a large network of carriers and delivery service partners and most of our customer orders are delivered through our own last mile network."
"Our focus remains on customers and ensuring we’re providing low prices, vast selection and fast delivery. We know how important fast delivery is to our customers, and it’s why we’ve been working to streamline our network and increase delivery speeds – we expect Prime speeds to be faster than ever this year," Amazon added.
UPS PILOTS UNION SAYS IT WILL HONOR TEAMSTERS PICKET LINE IF STRIKE HAPPENS
FedEx is planning to prioritize its existing customers if the shipping industry is disrupted by a UPS Teamsters strike in August. (Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images / File / Getty Images)
In early July, FedEx published a statement to explain that the company will prioritize its existing customers if the shipping industry’s services are disrupted.
"In the event of an industry disruption, FedEx Corporation’s priority is protecting capacity and service for existing customers. Therefore, shippers who are considering shifting volume to FedEx, or are currently in discussions with the company to open an account, are encouraged to begin shipping with FedEx now," the company’s statement reads.
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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) told FOX Business that the agency has the capacity to absorb a potential increase in shipping volume.
"The Postal Service has a strong network, and we have the capacity to deliver what is tendered to us," a USPS spokesperson said.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to launch its first pair of prototype internet satellites late next month on a different rocket than previously planned, a spokesman said on Monday, again switching rides for the spacecraft to avoid mounting rocket delays.
The company will launch the first two satellites for Amazon's Kuiper program, which aims to offer internet globally from space, aboard a dedicated Atlas V rocket from the Boeing-Lockheed (BA.N), (LMT.N) joint venture United Launch Alliance (ULA), spokesman James Watkins said.
The targeted launch date is Sept. 26, he said.
Amazon last year announced plans to launch the satellite pair aboard the first flight of ULA's new Vulcan rocket, moving them off previously planned rockets from launch startup ABL Space to avoid delays in ABL's rocket development.
But delays with Vulcan have prompted Amazon to again switch rides as the e-commerce giant faces a 2026 regulatory deadline to deploy half of the 3,200 satellites planned for its Kuiper internet network.
Vulcan, which had been expected to launch in early 2023 at the time of Amazon's decision to use it, has run into testing hiccups that now peg its target launch date in the fourth quarter of 2023, a ULA spokeswoman said.
Aiming to complement Amazon's web services powerhouse and compete with the more established Starlink network from Elon Musk's SpaceX, Amazon has vowed to put $10 billion into the satellite internet endeavor and in 2022 bagged 83 launches to deploy it in orbit, marking the largest commercial launch procurement ever.
Nine of those launches include the Atlas V rocket, ULA's workhorse launcher that has lofted satellites to space in multibillion dollar science missions for NASA and the bulk of U.S. national security missions for the Pentagon.
ULA in 2021 stopped selling the Atlas V and has 19 more missions to fly before the rocket retires, ULA spokeswoman Jessica Rye said. The company had imported the rocket's Russian-made RD-180 engines in bulk for those remaining missions and has no plans to order more.
It was unclear whether the Atlas V launch planned for September counts as one of the nine that Amazon previously procured.
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When they started to unionize, Amazon tried to get rid of them.
That's the argument at the heart of a strike by more than 80 delivery drivers in California, who have taken legal action against the online retail giant in a case that could have major implications for the way it operates in the United States.
For the past month, employees have manned a picket line outside an Amazon warehouse in Palmdale, north of Los Angeles, slowing down vans that carry the company's packages.
Their strike is "not for our building alone -- we want to go nationwide," said Michael Leib, a 31-year-old driver.
Leib works for Battle-Tested Strategies (BTS), one of more than 3,000 small businesses in the US that exclusively deliver packages for Amazon.
Fed up with faulty air-conditioning and windows that didn't open in their Amazon-branded vans in California's heat, and being forced to work at breakneck speed, BTS workers unionized in April.
They demanded better working conditions, and a pay rise.
But barely a week before they formally unionized, Amazon announced the cancellation of BTS's contract. Since the end of June, the retail giant has ceased all activity with the subcontractor.
"We want to have safer working conditions, we want to have a higher pay wage," said Leib.
"And the fact that you don't want to do that for us when you're a multibillion dollar company? That's not fair."
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Critics allege that Amazon -- which has steadfastly opposed organized labor in its massive workforce -- has used similar tactics before.
Back in 2017 in Michigan, another subcontractor whose delivery drivers unionized had its contract canceled.
When Amazon employees at a New York warehouse last year voted to unionize, the company took legal action to block the move.
"Amazon is employing textbook fear tactics and union-busting throughout," said Christian Castro, a spokesman for the Teamsters Union -- the powerful organization representing truck drivers across the US which BTS workers joined.
"You try to stand up for yourself as a worker, as a person, and they're going to squish you, they're going to take you out," said Castro.
To resist, the union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Amazon with the National Labor Relations Board, and BTS drivers went on strike.
If the federal agency steps in and forces Amazon to negotiate with the union, it could fundamentally challenge the company's business model.
Amazon has said that BTS workers, like those among its 3,000-plus other subcontractors, "do not work for Amazon," and has accused them of spreading a "false" narrative.
But BTS workers reject Amazon's claim, noting that they operate everywhere with the retail giant's logo and under conditions it sets.
"We work for Amazon because we're wearing their shirts, we deliver their boxes, we drive their vans, their shipping labels are all over the boxes," said Leib.
When he's asked for a raise, Leib said, "the owner of the company said, 'Well, let me ask Amazon, to see if I can get more money from them so that I can pay you.'"
Amazon did not respond to AFP's request for comment.
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Leib said he has endured three years of working in "very harsh conditions," including temperatures of up to 129 degrees F (54C) inside his van during California's sweltering summers.
Drivers are expected to deliver more than 400 packages a day, with supervisors remotely keeping tabs on their progress.
"You've got dispatchers breathing down your neck, saying, 'Hey, what's going on? Why are you slowing down?'" he said.
"I felt heat exhaustion. I felt nauseous... and nearly collapsed" last year, Leib said.
Despite this, Amazon says it terminated BTS's contract because the subcontractor was consistently under-performing and missing its targets.
BTS boss Johnathon Ervin, a military veteran, strongly disputed this, claiming his employees set records and delivered up to 20,000 packages per day.
"Does that sound like low performance to you?" he asked.
Ervin's company was cited as an example in an Amazon newsletter in 2020.
And last November, an Amazon performance review said BTS's risk of non-renewal was "low."
According to Ervin, Amazon had been aware for over a year that the Palmdale delivery drivers wanted to unionize.
Last August, Amazon approached BTS with an offer of management training.
"It ended up being an anti-union training," Ervin said.
"They said that if workers unionized, they would cancel our contract and they gave us strategies on how to prevent unionization."
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