Technology
Why are markets worth all the time?
The year is 1900. Interest rates are high and rolling stocks are a way of life. You are an uninformed, a clueless individual investor....
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Here’s the name change for your old employer
NEW YORK — If you were a law student who was getting ready to take the bar exam and you now live in Chicago...
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Analysis: The Myanmar military keeps the country under control by keeping its citizens in the dark
Investigative journalist Megan McArdle has been chasing down the Myanmar security forces’ extensive and secretive effort to keep its citizens from online spying.The military...
Technology
‘American Gods’: Read the full list of the Eligible for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Bram Stoker Awards
1st PLACEKazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, was born in 1944. He lives in London.2nd PLACEAs a child, Ishiguro...
Technology
What You Need to Know About the Future of A.I.
Via Computerworld:Without the Sputnik moment and the Cold War, the technology itself might not have come into focus or as fully formed. Thanks to...
Technology
Municipal broadband would be a key component of a new F.C.C. plan aimed at expanding access to high-speed Internet, officials say
“High-speed, affordable Internet is important to America’s future,” said Federico Peña, former mayor of the nation’s largest city, who is advising the agency on...
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Silicon Valley learned a hard lesson from Amazon.com’s HQ2: Talk is cheap
As much as the tech industry and Silicon Valley would like to forget what happened in Austin, Texas, on Monday, it is instructive to...
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Post exposed secret Trump strategy to make Amazon happy
“Jeff Bezos?” Anyone else wonder if Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sells securities that track companies that he couldn’t have cared less about?Well, Jeff Bezos...
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Des Moines has become its own Silicon Valley
The town of Des Moines, Iowa, has a new slogan: “I want you to fail.”The slogan doesn’t boast of feats of inventive genius. The...
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Which tech company are you more worried about? Google or Facebook?
As usual, it’s a guessing game in the business world.The “long game” consists of a graying business world, a generation of millennials that might...
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Syrian militias are being targeted in a rare airstrike to protect U.S. troops
Vice President Joe Biden has ordered airstrikes against militias loyal to the Syrian government in eastern Syria, following an American assessment that it was...
U.S.
Cable companies to make customers pay $50 per month for faster internet speeds
ATLANTA — The Federal Communications Commission on Friday finalized a requirement that all U.S. cable and broadband internet subscribers pay a monthly premium for...
World
Tuberculosis is on the decline, CDC report says
States with spread of infectionsThe number of infections caused by tuberculosis is down sharply in states across the country, though the rate has not...
U.S.
Philip Lott Indicted in NYPD Shooting Death of Sharif Kayser
Philip Lott, a plainclothes officer who was facing an assault charge after a man was shot in the back, was today indicted on one...