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The online retail giant says it wants more people to experience Just Walk Out shopping.

Nearly a month after ending his long shot Democratic presidential campaign, Andrew Yang launched on Thursday a nonprofit group focused on making the central ideas of his campaign a reality.

But many CEOs tell IBM they don't have the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by emerging technologies.

A new book The Future of Work predicts men between the ages of 25 and 54 years old who work blue-collar jobs will be the first group of people to be replaced by robots.

Job-grabbing robots are no longer science fiction. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University used—what else?—a machine-learning algorithm to assess how easily 702 different kinds of job in America could be automated. They concluded that fully 47% could be done by machines

It is no longer in question whether all jobs will be automated, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking said Tuesday. The real question rests in when that automation will occur and which sectors of society will be affected sooner than others.

The last few months have seen a rash of studies on a coming automation apocalypse, and analysts are moving to a few targeted worries about the jobs future: Their big picture: There may be a long, deep economic disruption lasting decades and taking million