The restaurant Windows on the World showed off New York City at its most beautiful. High above the bustle, situated on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower, one could see sparkling Manhattan to the north, the zig-zagging bridges of Brooklyn to the east and the stately Statue of Liberty to the south. … Read more
The Department of Defense is terminating its $ 10 billion cloud contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI). The Pentagon said it had “initiated contract termination procedures” in a press release shared Tuesday, stating that “the department has determined that the JEDI cloud contract is no longer meeting its requirements due to evolving requirements, … Read more
An Amazon Fulfillment Center in Spokane, Washington (GeekWire Photo) The news: An Amazon Fulfillment Center employee died Thursday after being found in the bathroom of a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Bloomberg first covered the news, saying the employee collapsed at the facility, citing unnamed sources. Amazon said it was a personal medical incident and there … Read more
An Amazon employee is given a mask when entering a fulfillment center in Kent, Washington, before moving to the huge warehouse for package handling. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon is expecting thousands of its employees to attend a COVID-19 vaccination event at the company’s fulfillment center in Kent, Washington on Monday. It is … Read more
April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ET April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ETA demonstrator outside the Brooklyn Center police department on Thursday night.Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — For a fifth night after a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb shot and killed a 20-year-old man, hundreds of people rattled … Read more
The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. (Kevin Scott Photos) A lot can change in the landscape in a year when social isolation is the norm. The University of Washington has completed the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, and photos show a notable addition to the Seattle … Read more
(Dapper Labs photo) NFTs go viral: Digital collectibles, also known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), are suddenly the topic of conversation in the tech world. They have been around for a couple of years but have gained momentum in the past few weeks. Music star Grimes just sold $ 6 million worth of digital art earlier … Read more
The abuse allegations against the New Hampshire state juvenile prison have grown to 230 men and women who say they were physically or sexually abused as children by 150 employees between 1963 and 2018. (1st March)