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How Japan Can Churn Out Game Machines For The Next… Two Hundred Years
Our glittering game machines and our shiny gadgets aren’t made possible by merely fancy tech and electricity. They are here because minerals called rare earths, which are found in rich sludge and mud. Currently, China controls over 90 per cent of the world’s current supply of rare earths. That, however, could change.
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Report: One Thousand Workers Riot At Foxconn
Earlier this week, a riot broke out in Foxconn’s Chengdu plant. According to reports, up to a thousand Foxconn workers ended up rioting and police were called in to subdue the crowd.
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Watch Foxconn Workers Make An IPad
Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and other companies have repeatedly come under scrutiny in recent months and years for the conditions under which their high-tech gadgets are made.
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Report: Overworked Foxconn Workers Complaining About Forced Unpaid Leave
Remember when people would complain about those horrible working conditions at Foxconn plants? How employees worked too much? Now, people — well, Foxconn workers — are complaining about something else: too little work.