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Planning to buy a house in WA? Check the wildfire risk on this map

With worsening wildfire seasons, particularly in Central and Eastern Washington, home shoppers can now see wildfire risk on home listings.

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A worker aboard the Norwegian Bliss at Pier 66 cleans balcony panels before the ship’s departure for Alaska. The cruise ship is 1,094-feet long with a capacity for more than 4,000 passengers and a crew of more than 1,700. It was built in 2018. This ship will depart every Saturday Into September with almost 300 sailings. LO Linesonly. Saturday May 2, 2022 220326
Environment

A cruise ship ‘green corridor’ in the PNW? Ports make pact over carbon emission goals

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Seattle ‘tech bro’ stereotype isn’t going away as gender gap persists

Last Saturday, some of the crew of the Tai Honest pose for a photo with International Transport Workers’ Federation inspector Ryan Brazeau prior to departing the ship that day for a flight to quarantine in Tanzania before returning home.. Twelve of the crew had worked for more than 14 months without returning to their families in China, and their plight was investigated by the federation as well as the Coast Guard, which ordered the vessel to remain until port until the twelve crew were relieved. Credit: Courtesy of Ryan Brazeau Dateline: Longview, Washington Date: May, 2022
Maritime Industry

U.S. inspectors find problem on ship in Southwest WA: a terribly homesick crew, stuck for 14 months

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Thursday, May 19, 2022. While giving his keynote speech the President of Iceland, Dr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson listens to Siri after asking her if she can speak the Icelantic lauguage. (she can’t). He was the keynote speaker at the Nordic Museum’s Nordic Innovation Summit today. 220422
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Iceland’s president talks Big Tech, small languages and ‘digital death’ in Seattle visit

A car streams past Boeing’s Advanced Developmental Composites facility on East Marginal Way S. In Seattle Tuesday, January 5, 2020. This massive, windowless box-like building, the Boeing 9-101 Building, has housed many secretive developmental and research projects. It was here Boeing perfected the manufacturing methods used to fabricate large parts of the B-2 Stealth bomber in the early 1990s and the wings of the 787 in the 2000s. Boeing is planning to close this manufacturing research and development center. 216055
Economy

Boeing goes on hiring blitz as WA job market rebounds; see who else is hiring big

FILE – In this July 23, 2002 file photo, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo graces the entrance gates company’s former location in Santa Monica, Calif. MGM Inc. is preparing to receive binding acquisition offers Friday, March 18, 2010, as it again looks for a corporate savior for its troubles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) NYBZ136
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After billion-dollar acquisition of MGM, Amazon inherits a foe: Starz

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Workplace

Your bosses could have a file on you, and they may misinterpret it

Workplace

Activision at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Photographer: Troy Harvey/Bloomberg

Video game workers create first union at big U.S. game maker

Technology

A passenger from the first international flight to arrive at the new International Arrivals Facility (IAF) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a Delta Air Lines flight from Seoul-Incheon, stops to take a photo in IAF’s Grand Hall, a 450,000 square foot baggage claim and customs processing area on April 19, 2022.

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Tech Reviews & Tips

A person typing at a backlit computer keyboard in, Dec. 29, 2020. . MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Chris Ratcliffe

Can I stop emails from downloading to a PC? | Q&A with Patrick Marshall

Real Estate

Planning to buy a house in WA? Check the wildfire risk on this map

Retail

We’re now buying less online than many had predicted, and it’s throwing tech companies and the economy for a loop. (Talia Cotton/The New York Times)

Our in-person shopping hurts Big Tech | Commentary

Maritime Industry

The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. The Pinnacle, which is larger than most fishing boats that operate in the Bering Sea, can travel through some unconsolidated sea ice, although at a greatly-reduced speed. An ice floe with pieces like this can damage buoys, increasing the risk of a lost crab pot. (Loren Holmes / Anchorage Daily News)

Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change

Boeing & Aerospace

A Long March-2F Y12 rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-12 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan in northwestern China, Thursday, June 17, 2021. China has launched the first three-man crew to its new space station in its the ambitious programs first crewed mission in five years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) XHG116

China, U.S. are racing to make billions from mining the moon’s minerals VIEW

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The final version of the 737 MAX, the MAX 10, takes off from Renton Airport in Renton, WA on its first flight Friday, June 18, 2021.

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Amazon

David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, arrives to a UN Security Council Meeting on Food Insecurity and Conflict, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) UNJM113 UNJM113

World Food Program chief presses Bezos, Musk ‘to step up’

Amazon’s start

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in the basement launch site for his web venture. File Photo Jimi Lott 9/13/95 : AMAZON.COM’S JEFF BEZOS : INTERNET’S ULTIMATE CULT FIGURE : WHEN AMAZON.COM WAS JUST A FLEDGLING BUSINESS, JEFF BEZOS POSED WITH A CART OF BOOKS IN THE BASEMENT FROM WHICH THE BUSINESS WAS LAUNCHED. NOW, THE COMPANY SELLS ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS AND BEZOS IS A BILLIONAIRE. (2 OF 2)

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Microsoft

Activision at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Photographer: Troy Harvey/Bloomberg

Video game workers create first union at big U.S. game maker

Economy

Davos forum is back with less billionaire star power and no snow

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Downtown is in trouble and it'll take more than redoing Pacific Place to save it

Money Makeovers

Teri Allen is hoping her finances will enable her to retire when she wants to. Photographed Wednesday, April 21, 2021 216947

She’s worked almost 40 years in one place. Now, can she retire before 65?

Personal Finance

Husband and wife Angelyn and Richard Burk aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship in March 2022. The couple has decided to spend their retirement on cruise ships. (Family photo)

Seattle accountant retires on cruise ships to save money

Markets

Davos forum is back with less billionaire star power and no snow

Artificial Intelligence

The State of Washington Employment Security Department, closed due to Covid-19, seen Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 in Olympia.

The IRS dropped ID.me’s facial recognition tech after backlash. WA is rolling it out in June

Local Business

A medical worker in protective gear collects a sample from a worker at a COVID testing site setup outside a shopping mall on Sunday, May 22, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) XAW102 XAW102

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China’s bet on homegrown mRNA vaccines holds back nation

China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best protection against the worst outcomes from COVID-19.

Agriculture

One honey bee nestles on a flower and another is in flight at the tail end of this orchard bloom at Hood River Cherry Company Credit: Hal Bernton Dateline: Hood River, Oregon Date: May, 20222

In cool spring, bees struggle to pollinate Northwest cherry crop

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