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It was Arthur C. Clark who said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I think about that saying whenever I run across a gadget that really impresses me with a particular feature.

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In early October of every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its much-anticipated report on changes (usually increases) to the Consumer Price Index over the past 12 months. (It was a little late this year due to...Read more

Meta Platforms and Applied Materials disclosed plans to chop well over 600 combined Bay Area jobs, according to WARN letters sent to the state Employment Development Department.

Facebook owner Meta revealed its intentions...Read more

ADP Research will now be releasing U.S. payroll data on a weekly basis, in addition to its monthly report, to provide high-frequency insights into the labor market.

The figures, which are a four-week moving average of the...Read more

OpenAI is giving its long-time backer Microsoft Corp. a 27% ownership stake as part of a restructuring plan that took nearly a year to negotiate, removing a major uncertainty for both companies and clearing the path for ...Read more

Tuesday marks the first zero paycheck day for the nation’s air traffic controllers.

Members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association union are distributing leaflets about the shutdown’s effects at nearly ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. and DTE Energy Co. have launched a pilot program with 15 Ford employees in southeast Michigan that compensates these F-150 Lightning owners for transferring their electric vehicle battery power to their home...Read more

As UPS continues a multiyear change to its business model that includes a downsizing of its relationship with Amazon, it announced Tuesday it has closed 93 buildings this year and cut 34,000 operational jobs.

That total ...Read more

As the federal government shutdown rolls toward the one-month mark, TSA agent Neal Gosman is steaming as his plan to pay down debt and help his 31 grandchildren is on hold.

Gosman and nearly 600 other Transportation ...Read more

Nine months after a huge fire at a battery storage plant in Moss Landing raised questions about how to balance public safety with California’s ambitious plans to expand renewable energy, officials in Monterey County will...Read more

Target employees being laid off — including 815 workers in the Twin Cities — received an email at 8 a.m. Tuesday, instructing them to join a 9 a.m. audio call with human resources.

That call was supposed to outline ...Read more

UnitedHealth Group expects its Medicare Advantage enrollment will shrink by 1 million people next year, as the insurer trims offerings across the country while focusing on higher profit margins as the nation’s largest ...Read more

The U.S. agreed to support the construction of large-scale reactors from Westinghouse Electric Co. worth at least $80 billion, pledging much-needed government backing for the industry in the latest push to meet surging ...Read more

Retail pros predict Halloween sales will hit record levels this year — again — despite the specter tariffs and inflation are putting on the season.

Up until last week, Tom Fallenstein, CEO of the Mankato, Minnesota-...Read more

Amazon told employees on Tuesday that it’s cutting 14,000 corporate jobs as it invests billions of dollars into artificial intelligence.

Amazon’s head of resources Beth Galetti told employees in an internal memo made ...Read more

Half of the cheap-and-tasty paradigm that makes junk food so appealing is collapsing: Many of those guilty-pleasure treats aren’t so cheap anymore.

More than any impact weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are having on big ...Read more

After a weekslong delay because of the federal government shutdown, the latest report on consumer prices has arrived, giving Americans a glimpse at how President Donald Trump’s economic policies are impacting everyday ...Read more

NextEra Energy Inc. plans to restart a nuclear power plant in Iowa, primarily to supply Google data centers.

The Duane Arnold Energy Center is expected to start delivering power by 2029 following agreements with Google, ...Read more

General Motors Co. on Monday laid off about 325 workers and confirmed plans to close its Georgia IT Innovation Center by the end of the year.

Most of the job cuts at the Roswell, Georgia, site are information technology ...Read more

An IT outage that grounded Alaska Airlines’ fleet for eight hours last week and canceled about 400 flights may cost the company $26 million.

Savanthi Syth, an airline analyst with financial services company Raymond ...Read more