Boston Dynamics’ robot dog is now on sale for $74,500
Want a dog without the pain of house training it? Or feeding or walking it? Well, you still can’t have one, but Boston Dynamics has begun…
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New Mexico pays out $1B in unemployment benefits so far during virus pandemic
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Businesses might be slowly reopening their doors in New Mexico, but the number of residents collecting unemployment…
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In landmark case, Supreme Court rules LGBT workers are protected from job discrimination
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, a…
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Over 40,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart, other stores recalled due to E. coli concerns
SWEDESBORO, New Jersey — A New Jersey company is recalling nearly 43,000 pounds of raw ground beef products because they may be contaminated…
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T-Mobile customers report widespread service outages – including in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas — T-Mobile was experiencing outages on Monday afternoon throughout portions of the U.S., including Texas and El Paso. DownDetector,…
Continue Reading United is mortgaging its frequent flyer program to raise $5 billion
United Airlines is mortgaging its Mileage Plus frequent flyer program, its latest effort to raise the cash it needs to weather the Covid-19 crisis.…
Continue Reading Task force officials out of public view as White House pivots to economic message
Amid rising cases in 18 states and renewed concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, top task force medical experts, including coronavirus response…
Continue Reading Journalist partially blinded while covering protests: There’s no way they could have mistaken me for anything but press
The final photos journalist Linda Tirado took around midnight on May 30, while covering the protests in Minneapolis, show what appears to be a police…
Continue Reading Trump’s latest target on Twitter: Comcast
President Trump on Saturday told his Twitter and Facebook followers to drop Comcast — an egregious use of his presidential platform to hurt an…
Continue Reading Starbucks reverses its stance and will now let baristas wear ‘Black Lives Matter’ apparel
Starbucks is reversing its position that had prohibited employees from wearing paraphernalia, such as T-shirts or pins, supporting the “Black…
Continue Reading Ben & Jerry’s co-founder and a black entrepreneur on ways leaders can stand against racism
City streets and hearts across America are smoldering. For generations, black parents have feared for the safety of their children every time they…
Continue Reading Ben & Jerry’s co-founder and a black entrepreneur on ways leaders can stand against racism
City streets and hearts across America are smoldering. For generations, black parents have feared for the safety of their children every time they…
Continue Reading AT&T launched the VideoPhone 2500 in 1992. It sold for $1,499
In 1992, AT&T launched what it called the first full-color, motion-picture video phone. Long before Zoom or Skype were ever created,…
Continue Reading Sony finally reveals the PlayStation 5’s design and its exclusive games
Sony teased Thursday which games will be available to play on its upcoming next-gen PlayStation 5 console and finally revealed the device’s new…
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Dow closes down 1,800 points as U.S. virus cases hit 2 million, deflating optimism
NEW YORK, NY — The stocks mega-rally hit a roadblock on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 1,860 points, or 6.9%, as…
Continue Reading The Tamagotchi virtual pet from the 90s is back
The Tamagotchi is back. The virtual pet that was so popular in the 90s is coming to North America again in July, with a new product called Tamagotchi…
Continue Reading Educators call for billions more in federal aid for K-12 schools
With just a few months to plan for a school year that will look very different from any before, education leaders are pleading for billions more in…
Continue Reading Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: ‘We could have done so much more’ on race
As protests against racism and police brutality sweep across the United States, companies built on utopian ideals of inclusion and sharing are being…
Continue Reading Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: ‘We could have done so much more’ on race
As protests against racism and police brutality sweep across the United States, companies built on utopian ideals of inclusion and sharing are being…
Continue Reading Japan’s top billionaire Tadashi Yanai says the image of America is breaking
The race relations crisis is changing how the world sees America, according to Japan’s richest man. “The very image of America is…
Continue Reading Another 1.5 million Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week
The US economy is reopening gradually but America’s joblessness crisis continues to roar on. Another 1.5 million Americans filed for first-time…
Continue Reading The big looming risk for investors? A second wave of coronavirus
The breathless run-up in stocks in recent weeks has met some resistance. What’s happening: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s cautious…
Continue Reading Days before resigning, CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman told gym owners he doesn’t mourn George Floyd
Hours before tweeting controversial statements about George Floyd on Saturday, former CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman made insensitive comments about race…
Continue Reading ‘Gone with the Wind’ pulled from HBO Max until it can return with ‘historical context’
HBO Max has pulled “Gone with the Wind” from its library of films. The removal of the film comes as mass protests sweep across the United…
Continue Reading Sean Hannity said George Floyd and Donald Trump are both victims of bad cops
Fox News host Sean Hannity, a nightly champion of President Donald Trump, highlighted the similarities between Trump’s sparring with the US…
Continue Reading PwC chairman: How Corporate America can stop failing black workers and diversify its ranks
PwC Chairman Tim Ryan has been vocal for several years about the need for Corporate America to diversify its ranks. And he agrees that it has failed…
Continue Reading The backlash to Silicon Valley returns with a vengeance
For a brief moment, it looked like Mark Zuckerberg might finally catch a break. After a prolonged period of backlash dating to the 2016 presidential…
Continue Reading Prices keep falling, even as the economy starts to reopen
Consumer prices continued to fall in May even as the economy began to reopen. Although lockdown measures eased across the country, consumers kept…
Continue Reading I love The New York Times, but what they did was wrong
The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been famously quoted asserting that people are entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.…
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