It was just after 5 am when her house rumbled awake. Her hens squawked. Her cats scattered. Her dogs hide under the covers. And Nancy Planeta sat straight up in bed, wondering: What was that sound? People across Florida woke up early Saturday morning to the sound of the X-37B returning to Earth after a …
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The cloud boom has finally reached a resting altitude, but Wall Street is doing anything but resting. Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -4.06%, the original pioneer in cloud computing, confirmed Thursday what rivals Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.98% and Alphabet Inc. GOOGLE, -2.85% GOOG, -2.34% suggested with their earnings reports earlier in the week: Cloud-computing growth has finally …
The cloud boom has hit its stormiest moment yet, and it is costing investors billions Read More »
SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster 7 recently completed a 7 engine static fire test at Starbase.Photo: SpaceX SpaceX is moving ahead with plans to upgrade a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which will serve as a backup to the Kennedy Space Center pad the company currently uses to launch cargo and crews to …
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Tech giant Micron said it will invest $20 billion in a new chip factory in Upstate New York and up to $100 billion over 20 years if it decides to expand — another sign of a domestic semiconductor manufacturing boom. Micron said it will build the factory in Clay, NY, just north of Syracuse, with …
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A handful of cities are the first to show the housing market caving amid fading buyer demand. The six cities listed here are some of the largest in the US and have been in high demand in recent years. Rising mortgage rates and slowing sales suggest more cities will join the fray through 2022. Loading …
A gamer plays on Sony’s Playstation 5 console at his home in Seoul. Glue Lee | AFP via Getty Images The giants of the video game world saw their sales slide in the second quarter, as the initial tailwinds from the Covid pandemic faded. In the three months ended June, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo each …
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It would normally be cause for unalloyed celebration. According to figures released on August 5th, America’s unemployment rate in July fell to 3.5%, matching a half-century low hit just before covid-19. Moreover, with nearly 530,000 jobs created last month—more than twice as many as expected—the economy has now recovered all of the jobs lost during …
America’s jobs boom rolls on, fueling fears of sustained inflation Read More »
