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Google axes 12,000 jobs as layoffs spread across tech sector 01/20/2023 12:33pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who also leads its parent company Alphabet, informed staff Fri Regal Cinemas closing 3 DC-area movie theaters 01/20/2023 09:35am • Regal Cinemas, whose parent company Cineworld filed for bankruptcy reorganization in September, has released a list of 39 theater locations that will be closing this year. It includes theaters at D.C.���s Gallery Place and Rockville and Bowie in Maryland. They may close as soon as Feb. 15. Google parent Alphabet cutting about 12,000 jobs, joining other major tech companies that grew rapidly during pandemic 01/20/2023 06:14am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Google parent Alphabet cutting about 12,000 jobs, joining other major tech companies that grew rapidly during pandemic. DC's two streets where you're most likely to get a ticket 01/20/2023 05:55am • Everyone hates getting a parking ticket, and there are two streets in D.C. that top the list of places where you will probably get nailed. The worst is the unit block of 14th Street SW near the Washington Monument. The other is the 800 block of Maine Avenue SW near the Wharf. More DC N FBI chief says he's 'deeply concerned' by China's AI program 01/19/2023 05:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that he was ���deeply concerned��� about the Chinese government's artificial intelligence program, asserting that it was ���not constrained by the rule of law.��� Speaking during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Swi Defibrillators in telephone booths long preceded COVID 01/18/2023 05:30pm • CLAIM: British telephone booths are being retrofitted with defibrillators because the COVID-19 vaccines are causing more cardiac arrests. AP���S ASSESSMENT: False. A movement to install defibrillators in telephone kiosks across the U.K. is more than a decade old and didn���t result from the coronavi Arlington's EarthOptics raises big funding round to capitalize more on a carbon sequestration movement 01/18/2023 03:26pm • Arlington-based EarthOptics, a soil tester that uses satellite imagery and machine learning to create detailed carbon maps of farms, raised a $27.6 million funding round to grow internationally and meet what it says has been a fast-growing market demand in just the past year. The Series B round was Review: Hacking, not shoe-leather, solves thriller 'Missing' 01/18/2023 10:08am • June Allen���s mother has vanished during a romantic vacation with her boyfriend to Colombia when ���Missing��� starts gaining steam. The FBI are supposedly on it, with one special agent telling June: ���The best thing you can do is wait by the phone.��� Wait by the phone? You don���t know June Alle 7 of the Best Charles Schwab Mutual Funds 01/17/2023 07:00pm • These top Schwab funds are convenient and affordable.Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, might be highly popular in 2023, but mutual funds can still offer investors great value. Whereas ETFs must be purchased in increments of one share, investors can buy into mutual funds at whatever amount they wish. T ChatGPT in Classrooms: What to Know 01/17/2023 07:00pm • Ask ChatGPT to write a five-paragraph essay on the symbolism of "The Great Gatsby" and it will produce a response within seconds. Plug in an algebra equation and it can solve it almost instantly and even explain its process. That's not all. The capabilities of the artificial intelligence chatbot too Apple-Apps-Top-10 01/17/2023 12:13pm • Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Shadowrocket, Shadow Launch Technology Limited 3. Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi 4. Heads Up!, Warner Bros. 5. HotSchedules 6. Geometry Dash, RobTop Games AB 7. Monopoly - Classic Board Game, Marmalade Game Studio 8. Plague Inc., Ndemic Creations 9. Papa���s Fr Review: Spellbinding ���Saint Omer��� straddles truth, fiction 01/13/2023 08:10pm • First, the real-life facts of the case, more shocking than you���ll find in most fiction: In November 2013, a mother took a train from Paris to the northern French coast, along with her 15-month old daughter. She checked into a hotel, walked down to the water at night, fed the hungry child, and left Lizzo, Ed Sheeran among acts set for 2023 Jazz Fest 01/13/2023 04:28pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Lizzo and Ed Sheeran are among the headliners at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which takes place over two weekends beginning April 28. The lineup released Friday also includes Dead & Company, Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Santana, Jon Batiste, Ji NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 01/13/2023 11:09am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot won���t trig Missing boy's mom: 'I could feel his fingers slipping' away 01/12/2023 04:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Lindsy Doan didn���t think the water flowing over the creek crossing on San Marcos Road was deeper than normal when she tried navigating it in her SUV while driving her 5-year-old son to school. But the creek, swollen with rain from California's epic winter storms, was much hig