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TO FILL TEACHER JOBS, COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFER NEW DEGREES
In her second-grade classroom outside Seattle, Fatima Nuñez Ardon often tells her students stories about everyday people realizing their dreams.
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Techlife News #571
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US APPLICATIONS FOR JOBLESS BENEFITS INCREASED LAST WEEK
More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, the largest number in four months, but the labor market remains strong in the face of persistent inflation and a slowing overall U.S. economy.
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Techlife News #571
Techlife News
PELOTON TO CUT 500 JOBS AS TURNAROUND EFFORTS CONTINUE
Peloton is looking to trim hundreds of jobs as the company continues to reorganize its business which has stalled as the coronavirus related surge fades.
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Techlife News
RUSSIA FINDING NEW WAYS TO SPREAD PROPAGANDA VIDEOS
Russia has devised yet another way to spread disinformation about its invasion of Ukraine, using digital tricks that allow its war propaganda videos to evade restrictions imposed by governments and tech companies.
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Techlife News
MICRON TO BRING MICROCHIP PLANT TO UPSTATE NEW YORK
Micron, one of the world's largest microchip manufacturers, announced it would open a semiconductor plant in upstate New York, promising a long-term investment of up to $100 billion and a plant that could bring 50,000 jobs to the state.
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Techlife News
REPORT: AMAZON FREEZES HIRING ON CORPORATE RETAIL DIVISION
Amazon is implementing a hiring freeze on the corporate side of its retail business for the rest of the year, according to a New York Times report, becoming the latest company to pause hiring plans amid growing concerns about an economic downturn.
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Techlife News
HOSPITAL CHAIN SAYS 'IT SECURITY ISSUE' DISRUPTS OPERATIONS
A major nonprofit health system with 140 hospitals in 21 states, CommonSpirit Health, reporting an "IT security issue" that has disrupted operations in multiple states.
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Hi! Your Files Are Encrypted. You Can't Ηορε Το Recover Тнем Without Our Help.
Ransomware gangs made millions extorting hospitals and schools. The pandemic showed just how dangerous that was.
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AppleMagazine
TOP US REGULATORS SAY CRYPTO POSES FINANCIAL STABILITY RISKS
Top regulators recommended a series of new safeguards to ensure that a growing and unregulated cryptocurrency market doesn’t imperil U.S. financial stability.
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
NYC PLANS RECHARGING STATIONS FOR FOOD DELIVERY WORKERS
New York City’s thousands of food delivery workers will get places to recharge electric bike batteries, cellphones and themselves, under a city plan announced to turn abandoned newsstands and other unused structures into facilities for the “deliveristas.”
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
KIM KARDASHIAN FINED $1 MILLION BY SEC OVER CRYPTO PROMOTION
The long list of celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies just got shorter. Kim Kardashian is being barred from doing so for three years - and will pay a $1 million fine -- to settle federal charges that she recommended a crypto security to her 330 million Instagram followers without making clear that she was paid to do so.
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
FIREFLY AEROSPACE REACHES ORBIT WITH NEW ALPHA ROCKET
A new aerospace company reached orbit with its second rocket launch and deployed multiple small satellites on Saturday (01).
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
WHITE HOUSE UNVEILS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 'BILL OF RIGHTS'
The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence systems, including guidelines for how to protect people's personal data and limit surveillance.
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
BIDEN PLEDGE TO MAKE FEDERAL FLEET ELECTRIC FACES SLOW START
President Joe Biden, a self-described "car guy, often promises to lead by example on climate change by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling U.S. government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles. But efforts to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the fleet have lagged.
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
HOW COMPANY OFF-SITES ARE CHANGING BUSINESS TRAVEL
Business travel used to mean sending employees from their home office to somewhere else — to meet with clients or coworkers at other offices. But for many remote-first companies, it now means the opposite: Bringing employees together from their far-flung homes to work and meet in person.
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
DEAL BACK ON? ELON MUSK GETS CLOSER TO BUYING TWITTER
The tumultuous saga of Elon Musk’s on-again off-again purchase of Twitter took a turn toward a conclusion Tuesday after the mercurial Tesla CEO proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion.
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October 07, 2022
AppleMagazine
Time to shoot
iPhone 14 Pro camera elevated to new 48MP sensor
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October 07, 2022
Techlife News
Amazon to Raise Average Hourly Pay by $1 to $19 in October
Amazon said it's raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a hour, a boost that could help it attract more employees in a tight labor market as the holiday season approaches.
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Techlife News
SENATORS PUSH TO REFORM POLICE'S CELLPHONE TRACKING TOOLS
Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies' ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people's whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant.
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Techlife News
ROHINGYA SEEK REPARATIONS FROM FACEBOOK FOR ROLE IN MASSACRE
With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017, Maung Sawyeddollah, 21, describes what happened when violent hate speech and disinformation targeting the Rohingya minority in Myanmar began to spread on Facebook.
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Techlife News
JETBLUE CEO FIRST WITNESS IN US LAWSUIT AGAINST 2 AIRLINES
Government lawyers used airline executives' own words in trying Tuesday to persuade a federal judge to kill a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways.
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ALZHEIMER'S DRUG SHOWS PROMISE IN EARLY RESULTS OF STUDY
Shares of Biogen and other drugmakers researching Alzheimer's disease soared early Wednesday after Japan's Eisai Co. said its potential treatment appeared to slow the fatal disease in a late-stage study.
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Techlife News
GM SPENDING $760M TO CONVERT TOLEDO FACTORY TO MAKE EV PARTS
General Motors says it will spend $760 million to renovate its transmission factory in Toledo, Ohio, so it can build drive lines for electric vehicles.
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AUSTRALIA DEMANDS OPTUS PAY FOR NEW CUSTOMER ID DOCUMENTS
Australia's federal and state governments called for Optus to pay for replacing identification documents including passports and driver's licenses to avoid identity fraud after 9.8 million of the telecommunications company's customers had personal data stolen by computer hackers.
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Techlife News
STATES GET FINAL OK TO BUILD HIGHWAY EV CHARGING NETWORK
Attention, potential car buyers: New electric vehicle charging stations are on their way to highway locations near you.
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Techlife News
AMAZON UNVEILS BEDSIDE DEVICE THAT TRACKS SLEEPING PATTERNS
Soon enough, a bedside Amazon device might know whether you're sleeping - or not.
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Techlife News
HOW TO HELP LOVED ONES DEAL WITH DEBT
Juan Pinon, an electrical engineer in McAllen, Texas, struggled with credit card debt for years. It wasn't until he confided in his sister that he began to turn things around.
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AppleMagazine
MUSK FACES DEPOSITION WITH TWITTER AHEAD OF OCTOBER TRIAL
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to spend the next few days with lawyers for Twitter, answering questions ahead of an October trial that will determine whether he must carry through with his $44 billion agreement to acquire the social platform after attempting to back out of the deal.
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AppleMagazine
FED'S POWELL URGES BROADER REGULATION FOR STABLECOINS
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that stablecoins will need greater regulation as they become more widely used by consumers.
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AppleMagazine #570
AppleMagazine
Halftime Apple Music now sponsors NFL Super Bowl show
Apple Music has been announced as the new primary sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show in a deal representing a $50 million investment and a major departure for the world's biggest tech brand as it continues to expand into new areas and bolster its services revenue.
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