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IN 1ST FULL YEAR OF PANDEMIC, BIGGEST METROS LOST RESIDENTS
After returning to metro San Francisco following a college football career, Anthony Giusti felt like his hometown was passing him by. The high cost of living, driven by a constantly transforming tech industry, ensured that even with two jobs he would never save enough money to buy a house.
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March 26, 2022
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APPLE CO-FOUNDER WOZNIAK STILL LOOKING FOR NEXT BIG THING
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has remained immersed in technology while also pursuing divergent interests since his 1985 departure from the revolutionary company he started with the late Steve Jobs.
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March 26, 2022
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HYDROPOWER EYES BIGGER ENERGY ROLE, LESS ENVIRONMENTAL HARM
In southwestern Pennsylvania, eight locks and dams that for decades helped barges move goods along the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers will in a few years also generate enough power for 75,000 homes.
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March 26, 2022
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Russia's War Spurs Corporate Exodus, Exposes Business Risks
Auto shipments stopped, beer stopped flowing, cargo ships dropped port calls and oil companies cut their pipelines.
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March 05, 2022
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6 Ways Technology Is Evolving Travel in 2022
For the athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, travel entailed … robots. Everywhere. These machines prepared and served noodles, rice and burgers, and roamed hallways to take the temperatures of passersby.
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March 05, 2022
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Big Tech Grapples With Russian State Media, Propaganda
As Russia’s war in Ukraine plays out for the world on social media, big tech platforms are moving to restrict Russian state media from using their platforms to spread propaganda and misinformation.
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March 05, 2022
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AMAZON TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEAR TRANSIT STOPS
Amazon said it will spend more than $120 million to build affordable-housing units close to transit stations near Seattle and Washington, D.C, the latest example of a tech company trying to address the affordable housing crisis critics say the industry has exacerbated.
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BARCELONA STADIUM BECOMES SPOTIFY CAMP NOU UNDER SPONSORSHIP
Barcelona is teaming up with Spotify — and changing its stadium name — to ease some of the financial struggles that hindered the Spanish club recently.
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iPad Air
The power of the M1 processor & 5G connection
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CHIPMAKER INTEL DETAILS $150 MILLION EDUCATION INVESTMENT
Chipmaker Intel outlined $150 million in educational funding aimed at growing the workforce for the semiconductor industry, as part of its $20 billion investment in a production hub in Ohio.
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BIG BATCH OF SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS APPROVED IN VIRGINIA
Dominion Energy has received regulatory approval in Virginia for a series of solar projects expected to generate enough power to light up 250,000 homes.
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CNN+ STREAMS START MARCH 29; MSNBC TO STREAM PROGRAMMING
The CNN+ paid streaming service will debut March 29 with programming headlined by network stars like Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper, along with poached personalities Audie Cornish, Kasie Hunt and Chris Wallace.
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INTEL UNVEILS $88B CHIPMAKING EXPANSION PLAN FOR EUROPE
U.S. chipmaker Intel unveiled plans this week to invest up to 80 billion euros ($88 billion) across Europe as part of an ambitious expansion aimed at evening out imbalances in the global semiconductor industry that have led to big chip shortages.
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US TEXTRON TO ACQUIRE SLOVENIAN ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT PIONEER
U.S. industrial conglomerate Textron Inc. has signed a deal to acquire Pipistrel, the Slovenian ultralight aircraft maker and pioneer in electrically powered aviation, both companies announced Thursday.
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JULIAN ASSANGE DENIED PERMISSION TO APPEAL BY UK'S TOP COURT
Britain’s top court this week refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges.
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WAR CENSORSHIP EXPOSES PUTIN'S LEAKY INTERNET CONTROLS
Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China’s so-called Great Firewall.
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TV+ Live
Expanding into exciting new entertainment arenas
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March 05, 2022
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Twitter Expands Birdwatch, Its Crowdsourced Fact Check Pilot
Twitter is expanding Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checking project it started as a small and little-publicized pilot program more than a year ago.
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March 05, 2022
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OLD MONEY, NEW MONEY: BEAUX ARTS STYLE GETS ATTENTION ON HBO
“What surroundings, Mrs. Russell. We could be at Tsarskoye Selo,” exclaims Nathan Lane’s snooty Ward McAllister at his first glance of her opulent Fifth Avenue mansion on “The Gilded Age.”
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March 12, 2022
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RUSSIAN BANKS MULL CHINA UNIONPAY; BIG ACCOUNTING FIRMS EXIT
Leading Russian banks are looking into using a Chinese payment rival after Visa and Mastercard suspended operations, while all the big global accounting firms said they would pull out of Russia in the latest corporate fallout over the invasion of Ukraine.
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March 12, 2022
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TWITTER UNVEILS VERSION OF SITE THAT CAN BYPASS RUSSIA BLOCK
Twitter has launched a privacy-protected version of its site to bypass surveillance and censorship after Russia restricted access to its service in the country.
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March 12, 2022
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DID AMAZON VIOLATE FEDERAL LAWS? LAWMAKERS ASK FOR DOJ PROBE
Lawmakers followed through Wednesday on their threat to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, asking the Justice Department to investigate whether the tech giant and senior executives obstructed Congress or violated other federal laws in testimony on its competition practices.
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March 12, 2022
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EXPERTS: HOW TO IMPOSE INTERNET SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA
Ukraine’s attempt to get Russia kicked off the internet failed, but a diverse group of experts proposes a more narrow approach to sanctioning the Kremlin for invading its neighbor: Consider creating a mechanism that could technically blacklist individual Russian military and propaganda websites.
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March 12, 2022
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MUSK ASKS JUDGE TO NULLIFY SUBPOENA, THROW OUT DEAL WITH SEC
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking a federal judge to nullify a subpoena from securities regulators and throw out a 2018 court agreement in which Musk had to have someone pre-approve his posts on Twitter.
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March 12, 2022
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GAS PRICE HIKES FUELING ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Some social media users suggest that soaring fuel prices in the U.S. aren't the result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, increased consumption or supply chain issues as daily life resumes after two years of stagnation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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March 12, 2022
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LEAK GIVES DETAILS ON OVER 30,000 CREDIT SUISSE BANK CLIENTS
A German newspaper said a leak of data from Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, reveals details of the accounts of more than 30,000 clients — some of them unsavory — and points to possible failures of due diligence in checks on many customers.
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February 26, 2022
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DEPORTATION AGENTS USE SMARTPHONE APP TO MONITOR IMMIGRANTS
U.S. authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that advocates say violates their privacy and makes them feel they're not free.
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March 12, 2022
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DELIVERY ROBOTS WITH RUSSIAN TIES PULLED FROM 2 US CAMPUSES
Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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March 12, 2022
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BIDEN SIGNS ORDER ON CRYPTOCURRENCY AS ITS USE EXPLODES
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency that urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should jump in and create its own digital currency.
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March 12, 2022
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‘CODA' Takes Top Honors at Sag Awards, Will Smith Wins
In an upset, the deaf family drama “CODA” took top honors at a very unpredictable 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards that also saw wins for the leads of “Squid Game,” the cast of “Ted Lasso” and Will Smith.
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