Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army is Growing

On Wednesday, a horde of Amazon employees rushed to defend the honor of the world’s richest man. From a report: The employees — known as “FC ambassadors,” for Amazon’s Orwellian-sounding “fulfillment center” warehouses — flooded into the mentions of several Twitter users. This isn’t the first time these accounts have attracted attention. Earlier this year, the accounts descended on Twitter with…

Ebola Is Now Curable

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Amid unrelenting chaos and violence, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running a clinical trial of new drugs to try to combat a year-long Ebola outbreak. On Monday, the trial’s cosponsors at the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health announced that two of the experimental…

Kotaku Posts ‘A Reminder That Video Games Are A Force For Good’

An anonymous reader quotes Kotaku Australia:
Spurred on by the recent discussions of video games and violence, and spurred on by the emotional and often downbeat tone of that discussion, a user on Twitter posted a simple thought exercise. Rather than talking about the misery and pain of the week, what if people shared all the times Nintendo games changed lives instead?…