WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Postal Service’s famous motto — “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers” — is being tested like never before, by challenges that go well […]
NEW YORK — Target Corp. says it’s permanently increasing starting hourly wages for its workers to $15 beginning July 5, several months ahead of schedule. In 2017, the Minneapolis-based company had set a goal to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s turn to defend her record and battle accusations that she’s lost touch with her district. The out-of-nowhere winner of 2018’s most spectacular election upset, the New York Democrat […]
Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM. Microsoft’s president and chief counsel, Brad Smith, […]
A health care venture created by three corporate giants to attack some of the system’s biggest flaws has lost its high-profile CEO. Harvard professor and author Dr. Atul Gawande is stepping down as chief executive […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon’s process for awarding a highly lucrative cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was in line with legal and government purchasing standards, a government watchdog agency said Wednesday. The […]
RALEIGH — The increase in popularity of doorbell cameras has led to an increase in privacy concerns and for citizens to know their rights when it comes to surveillance technology. The top doorbell camera systems […]
NEW YORK — Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud” computing system. But Amazon’s early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may […]
NEW YORK — Amazon and Walmart on Thursday kicked off a two-year government pilot program allowing low-income shoppers on government food assistance in New York to shop and pay for their groceries online for the […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina taxpayers may never learn how much in tax breaks, free land and other giveaways business recruiters were willing to throw at tech giants Apple and Amazon to attract thousands of jobs […]
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