Welcome to the Tech Beam Right Home for Friday, April 9th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The counting is finally happening and not to be all Nate Silver but it's looking fairly certain that

Amazon won its big Union battle. Apple and Epic Games are making their first

arguments in that big lawsuit, a big new scraping hack this time for half a billion LinkedIn users

Neurrelink shows a monkey playing pong with its brain and of course the weekend long

read suggestions here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

This is an ongoing story, but with the weekend coming and all, I'm going to go with this now so you're at least aware.

Counting is not yet finished, but remember that big union drive among Amazon workers in Alabama.

So far, with half the ballots counted, the Union Drive looks like it's going down to defeat by at least a 2 to 1 margin, quoting the New York Times.

The incomplete Union aimed to establish the first Union at an Amazon warehouse in the United States.

The result will have major implications not only for Amazon but also for organized labor and its

allies.

The Union said there were 3,215 ballots cast from 55% of the 5,809 eligible voters at the warehouse

in the closely watched election.

The union must get support from more than half of the votes cast to prevail.

The ballots were being counted in random order in the National Labor Relations Board's office

in Birmingham, Alabama, and the process was broadcast

via Zoom to more than 200 journalists, lawyers, and other observers, end quote.

And just as I went in to record this, I got a notification on my phone that indicates that the final tally is not yet official, but most outlets are calling it around 71% of the warehouse workers voted against joining a union so

the union has gone down to defeat.

The big court case between Apple and Epic Games is getting underway and in

prep for that both sides are releasing filings to sum up their arguments ahead of

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