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Voluntary buyouts are having a moment in Big Tech. Workers at Google recently pressed the search giant to make the exit offers a standard first step whenever it plans job cuts — and to extend them to ...

It's not the spend, it's the return. That's what Friday's technology stock plunge said. I think it just might be the most significant tech selloff in more than a year. We need to know — potentially — ...

“Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” jokes Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He’s just asked his audience to pull out their phones so that he can walk them through the steps of ...

Faithless, chaotic, and corrupt: Donald Trump's character also shapes his foreign policy. The latest victim is Saudi Arabia—not a sympathetic victim, maybe, but a victim all the same. On July 22, ...

Scientists have been trying to figure out how kids pick up language so fast for decades, and a new study out of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) might have cracked part of the ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A new tuition-free career and technical charter school is preparing to open in Fort Pierce in August, bringing a hands-on approach to education to the Treasure Coast. SouthTech ...

MAUMEE, Ohio (WTVG) - A Maumee nonprofit has opened a tech house stocked with assistive technology designed to help people with disabilities perform everyday tasks independently. Sunshine Communities’ ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech has signed a 15-year naming rights partnership with digital assets and infrastructure company Galaxy. Terms of the deal announced on Friday were not disclosed. The ...

DONGGUAN, China—At a factory so big it could fit dozens of football fields, Chinese furniture manufacturer DeRucci churns out up to 5,000 mattresses a day. Whirring robotic arms and machines do most ...

Starbucks spends about $400 million every year on software alone, according to chief technology officer Anand Varadarajan. The coffee chain is now developing software tools in-house as part of its ...