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Startups race to develop tech that can clear workplaces of COVID-19Sep 29, 2020 8:44 am - Smithfield Foods thought it was doing great. In the first quarter of this year, the pork giant's earnings were up 190% over the same period in 2019. Then the pandemic hi...
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This startup pushes technology into schools with paper and penSep 28, 2020 2:56 pm - Millions of kids in the U.S. headed back to school this month and most of them will be spending at least part of their class time remotely, relying on computers, tablets...
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Analysis: New grads should take (almost) any job that paysSep 23, 2020 6:25 am - Today's young adults are graduating into an uncertain job market, as the pandemic has shuttered entire industries, raised the U.S. unemployment rate to roughly 10% and l...
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Analysis: Retailers think you can't work in sweatpants foreverSep 22, 2020 8:34 am - Consumerism is back in fashion in spite of the enduring COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest European clothing retailers Inditex and Hennes & Mauritz both demonstrated that de...
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Zoom says obscene 'bombings' aren't its fault under the lawSep 21, 2020 12:21 pm - Don't blame Zoom if your church's or school's virtual meeting was disrupted by outsiders heckling you with profanity or streaming pornography. So says the teleconferenci...
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Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan is the new voice of Amazon's AlexaSep 21, 2020 12:21 pm - Amazon.com has signed up India's biggest movie star Amitabh Bachchan for its Alexa voice assistant in a bid to lure users in the world's second-most populated nation to ...
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Factory owners hiking pay to lure workers even with high jobless rateSep 15, 2020 2:35 pm - As the economy picks up, America's warehouse and factory owners increasingly find they can't fill jobs without boosting meager wages. E-commerce is driving a surge of or...
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COVID-19 recession financial planning for women of colorSep 15, 2020 2:35 pm - I am facing a triple risk of financial failure in this pandemic: - I am a Black woman. - I am divorced and therefore a single parent. - I run my own small business. And ...
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Motorola's 5G foldable Razr adds better cameras and processor, costs lessSep 15, 2020 8:27 am - Seven months after launching its first modern reboot of the early-2000s classic, Motorola on Wednesday announced its second-generation foldable Razr and said the first h...
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Analysis: Microsoft's Xbox game plan has big problemsSep 15, 2020 6:26 am - The latest round of the gaming console wars has officially begun. Following a protracted standoff between Microsoft and Sony over which company would share their plans f...