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- TSP solver wins $100k prize at Amazon's “Last Mile” ML Challenge (using no ML) https://www.amazon.science/academic-engagements/winning-last-mile-challenge-team-addresses-problem-of-combining-mathematical-routes-with-driver-knowledge 2 comments
- Last Mile Logistics: Amazon vs. Fedex vs. Startups http://www.datafox.co/blog/last-mile-logistics/ 10 comments
- He delivers where Amazon and FedEx won't: USPS worker covers 'the last mile' to rural America https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/18/usps-rural-americans-depend-mail-carriers-medical-items/3382677001/ 84 comments politics
- Record deforestation in Brazilian Amazon in February. Satellite images show 199 square kilometers (77 square miles) of forest cover—an area more than half the size of the US capital Washington—were lost in Brazil's Amazon region last month https://phys.org/news/2022-03-deforestation-brazilian-amazon-february.html 3 comments environment
- As middle-mile autonomous robotic delivery finally arrives, both Amazon and FedEx are shutting down their last mile robot delivery initiatives. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/18/23410419/fedex-shuts-down-last-mile-delivery-robot-roxo-deka 8 comments futurology