The Herald will carry a livestream with this story. The video will go live 20 minutes before launch. It will be Rocket Lab’s nineteenth lift-off and its second of 2021.
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Microsoft plans to open its office without restrictions only once the virus acts “more like an endemic virus such as the seasonal flu,” Kurt DelBene, an executive vice president at the company, wrote on the company blog.
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President Biden on Monday nominated Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, installing a vocal critic of Big Tech into a key oversight role of the industry. If her nomination is approved by the Senate, Ms. Khan, 32, would fill one of two empty seats …
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writers. Gains in big technology companies led stocks broadly higher on Wall Street as traders welcomed some easing in long-term bond yields. Banks lagged behind. The S&P 500 index rose 0.7% …
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HICKORY, N.C. — About 550 families received free food Monday as part of Second Harvest Food Bank’s massive meal giveaway in Hickory. The two-hour event, held in the parking lot of Clinton Tabernacle AME Zion Church, occurred as many people in the …
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