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Amazon is reportedly working to find a cure for the common cold
Amazon disrupted the books, grocery, and shipping business, and now it's set its sights on viral infections. The tech company has apparently tasked a team of employees to research and develop a cure for the common cold, a CNBC report indicates today. Under an effort called "Project Gesundheit," three people familiar with the effort tell CNBC that Amazon is specifically looking to develop a vaccine that would stave off cold infections. This small team exists under the broader Grand Challenge group within Amazon, CNBC says.
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:57AM
What Amazon really needs is for some unwashed loon to start a Free DevOps movement to convince college students that it would be totally cool to work for free maintaining the infrastructure that keeps AWS running. That way with an all volunteer workforce the cost of cloud computing falls to zero and all revenue becomes pure unadulterated profit. You know, like how some unwashed loon started a Free Software movement back in the 1980s that led to the cost of software falling to zero and the primary workforce for producing software became unpaid college students. Amazon undoubtedly saved billions in software licensing thanks to that guy.
That's right. Richard Stallman gave an unpaid workforce to billionaires.
Now in the internet age, billionaires can and should put together an unpaid workforce of volunteer DevOps working from home for free.