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Expensive cars and big jewelry ��� is the DC region obsessed with luxury? 02/06/2023 03:49pm • Maseratis, Rolexes and trips to the Seychelles must be on the minds of many District residents. A new study find that D.C. is the most luxury-obsessed area in the country. D.C. was number one with a score of 78.71 out of 100 on the luxury score, according to the new study by the jewelry brand, Gl Big tech job cuts keep coming; Dell latest to trim headcount 02/06/2023 11:41am • The tech industry started the year with a wave of job cuts, around 50,000 in January alone, and there doesn���t appear to be any let up this month. The computer maker Dell said Monday that it's cutting about 6,600 jobs. Large and small tech companies went on a hiring spree in over the past several y 'Died suddenly' posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies 02/04/2023 02:26pm • Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver���s autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine. A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia���s name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emo State of the Union: Biden sees economic glow, GOP sees gloom 02/04/2023 11:55am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Going into Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Joe Biden sees a nation with its future aglow. Republicans take a far bleaker view ��� that the country is beset by crushing debt and that Biden is largely responsible for inflation. And the GOP now holds a House majority Chinese balloon high over US stirs unease down below 02/03/2023 09:47pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) ��� The Chinese balloon drifting high above the U.S. and first revealed over Montana has created a buzz down below among residents who initially wondered what it was ��� and now wonder what its arrival means amid a chorus of alarm raised by elected officials. The balloon roiled Google, Apple, Amazon give investors reason to fret 02/03/2023 05:06pm • Wall Street had its eyes Friday on big tech after some of the biggest companies in the world posted lackluster quarterly financial performances. That included Apple Inc. The company posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years after pandemic-driven restrictions on its China factorie A surprising burst of US hiring in January: 517,000 jobs 02/03/2023 12:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For nearly a year, the Federal Reserve has been on a mission to cool down the job market to help curb the nation's worst inflation bout in four decades. The job market hasn't been cooperating. Consider what happened in January: The government said Friday that employers added a s Apple suffers 1st quarterly sales decline in nearly 4 years 02/02/2023 05:59pm • Apple on Thursday posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years after pandemic-driven restrictions on its China factories curtailed sales of the latest iPhone during the holiday season. The company's sales of $117 billion for the October-December period represented a 5% decline from t Alphabet posts lower Q4 profit amid ad squeeze, competition 02/02/2023 05:40pm • Google's parent company Alphabet on Thursday posted lower profit and a small revenue increase for last year's fourth quarter, as a decline in online ad spending and competition from rivals weigh on the search giant. While overall revenue grew, advertising revenue fell by nearly 4% and revenue at Yo Viewpoint: Data centers in the wrong places are Loudoun's own doing 02/02/2023 01:20pm • Open up Google Maps, the satellite view, and navigate over to the south side of the Dulles Greenway at its interchange with Belmont Ridge Road. Have a look around. There are the main offices of Loudoun County Public Schools fronting the Greenway, Clyde���s Willow Creek Farm restaurant, the 3,000-pl Teen gets 10 years for house fire that killed 5 from Senegal 02/01/2023 08:29pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A Colorado teenager who was one of three friends who authorities say ignited a house fire that killed five Senegalese immigrants was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years behind bars in court where a man who lost his wife and baby daughter called the boy a ���monster.��� Amadou Beye said h FTC fines GoodRx for unauthorized sharing of health data 02/01/2023 07:09pm • In a first-of-its-kind enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission has imposed a $1.5 million penalty on telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx Holdings Inc. for sharing users' personal health data with Facebook, Google and other third parties without their consent. Under a settleme Apple and Google app stores get thumbs down from White House 02/01/2023 02:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration is taking aim at Apple and Google for operating mobile app stores that it says stifle competition. The finding is contained in a Commerce Department report released by the administration on Wednesday as President Joe Biden convened his competition council Google has the next move as Microsoft embraces OpenAI buzz 02/01/2023 11:56am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Before the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was unleashed into the world, the novelist Robin Sloan was testing a similar AI writing assistant built by researchers at Google. It didn���t take long for Sloan, author of the bestseller ���Mr. Penumbra���s 24-Hour Bookstore,��� t 9 Best Stocks for a Starter Portfolio 01/31/2023 07:00pm • The S&P 500 is off to a stellar start in 2023, posting a 6.2% total return in January alone -- a stark contrast to the 19.4% sell-off in 2022. That makes the first few months of 2023 a great time to start creating an "all-weather" stock market portfolio that's built for the long haul. Stocks, af