The wave that rolled around Oriole Park at Camden Yards in the seventh inning Saturday night had real force to it. There were no gaps in the flow like there so often has been during Orioles games in recent years, only the rise and fall of one of the best crowds in Baltimore this season …
After decades of creating war machines and home cleaning appliances, iRobot agreed to be acquired by Amazon for $1.7 billion, according to a joint statement by the two companies. If the deal goes through, it would give Amazon access to yet another wellspring of personal data: interior maps of Roomba owners’ homes. iRobot got its …
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The Federal Reserve will face more urgency in its fight to cool down the US economy with steep interest rate increases after the latest batch of labour market data showed an unexpected acceleration in jobs gains and strong wage growth. The figures released on Friday eased concerns that the American economy was sharply slowing down …
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The Steelers’ new contract with wide receiver Diontae Johnson sums up that old adage from business negotiations. A fair deal for both sides probably means that neither side is completely happy with the contract that has been signed. I don’t think that always has to be true. Look at Sidney Crosby’s 12-year, $104 million deal …
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Coinbase has announced a deal with BlackRock to give the asset manager’s clients more seamless access to digital asset markets, in the latest sign of how a rising number of traditional investors are dabbling in crypto. San Francisco-based Coinbase said on Thursday that it would connect to Aladdin, BlackRock’s investment technology platform. The system, which …
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If you want to build a kick-ass computer lab in your home, you’ll need to start with a kick-ass PC. But with so many ways to get good PCs these days, you’ll need to make a decision: Do you buy a pre-built PC? Or do you buy your own parts and build the PC with …
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Screenshot: Dancing Dragon Games There’s been a raft of intriguing strategy RPGs this year, but one of my favorites so far is Symphony of War. It’s been climbing the charts on Steam in recent months, and for good reason. From a distance it looks like another Fire Emblem knockoff. Up close it’s doing enough interesting …
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Many of us wear an eye mask to block out light when we sleep, but what if your mask could also sing lullabies, give massages and harnessed the latest NASA technology? Enter the new wave of high-tech eye tech which promises to do just that. These ‘smart’ masks claim to help us nod off by …
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Enlarge / The boat trip went through an area of milky sea south of the lights of an island. On some moonless nights, enormous patches of the Northwest Indian Ocean and seas around Indonesia begin to glow. This event has been witnessed by hundreds of sailors, but only one research vessel has ever, by pure …
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Workers at a construction site. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Workers at a construction site. Joe Raedle/Getty Images On Thursday, we’ll get an important report card on the U.S. economy. GDP, or gross domestic product, tells us how much the economy grew or shrank in the previous quarter. In the …
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