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The Space Needle stands past a “For Sale” sign displayed in front of a house in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Sunday, July 20, 2014. Sales of previously owned U.S. homes climbed in June to an eight-month high as more listings helped prices cool, luring buyers into the market. Photographer: Mike Kane/Bloomberg 503031845

See where Seattle’s cooling housing market ranks among other cities

Housing markets in tech centers like Seattle and San Francisco are cooling quickly.

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Victor Plata, who drives for Viking Towing, hauls away the author’s car after thieves stole its catalytic converter. Plata, who had already towed the cars of two other converter theft victims, says the thieves can make “thousands of dollars” in just a few days. “It’s a big business,” says Plata, who had his own catalytic converter stolen a few years ago.

Dude, where’s my catalytic converter? Probably back in the supply chain

The H-1B visa, intended for jobs requiring specialized skills and a bachelor’s degree or higher, has become a flashpoint in the immigration debate. (Bilal Aliyar/Dreamstime/TNS)

Laid off from a tech job on temporary work visa? We want to hear from you

Capitol Hill Starbucks – unionization efforts – 022022 The Starbucks at the corner of Denny Way and Broadway is seen on Capitol Hill Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022 in Seattle, Wash. 219686

Starbucks to close another Seattle store, detailing safety concerns

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Davis works with textiles, she says, because “you can address it at the nano- and micro-scale with tiny particles that you can spin to make a thread or yarn, or you can look at it from the massive scale. A building. A city.”
Technology

Buildings made of wool and fungus? This textile expert is making it happen.

A drill breaks ground at the Ford Motor Co. and SK Innovation Co. electric vehicle and battery manufacturing complex while under construction near Stanton, Tennessee, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The Ford Motor Co. and SK Innovation Co. $5.6 billion manufacturing complex, known as BlueOval City, is due to begin building electric F-Series pickup trucks and the batteries that power them in three years. 775901856
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Ford is building its first new plant in 53 years. Not everyone is happy VIEW

A pedestrian walks by Amazon’s offices at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Blanchard Street in Seattle on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. 222198
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With 5,900 tech jobs already gone, a Seattle reset looks real

Jeremy Foust, owner of Left Foot Farm, pauses prior to feeding his goats in Eatonville, WA on November 4, 2022. Foust’s goat farm falls inside the circle identified as the proposed airport site. State officials charged with identifying where the state should build a new major airport have narrowed it to three sites. The two most likely are both in Pierce County, near Graham. The public comments elicited so far universally oppose all the proposed sites. And county officials have registered strong objection to all three sites on the shortlist, which are in  Pierce and Thurston counties.
Aviation

Seattle area will need another big airport, but where should it go? VIEW

Workplace

Alethea founder Lisa Kaplan, who is trying to recruit former Twitter employees, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Nov. 19, 2022. Seeing false and toxic information as a potentially expensive liability, companies in and outside the tech industry are angling to hire people who can keep it in check. (Carolina Andrade/The New York Times)

Sympathy, and job offers, for Twitter’s misinformation experts

Maritime Industry

A shipping container is lifted onto a ship, shot from Jack Perry Memorial Park on E. Marginal S. in Seattle, looking south, Thursday, August 25, 2022. 221244

Seattle loves the Mariners, but our container ship trade goes mostly unnoticed

Real Estate

The Space Needle stands past a “For Sale” sign displayed in front of a house in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Sunday, July 20, 2014. Sales of previously owned U.S. homes climbed in June to an eight-month high as more listings helped prices cool, luring buyers into the market. Photographer: Mike Kane/Bloomberg 503031845

See where Seattle’s cooling housing market ranks among other cities

Technology

An employee of Global Cyber Security Company Group-IB develops a computer code in an office in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. A new strain of malicious software has paralyzed computers at a Ukrainian airport, the Ukrainian capital’s subway and at some independent Russian media. Moscow-based Global Cyber Security Company Group-IB said in a statement Wednesday the ransomware called BadRabbit also tried to penetrate the computers of major Russian banks but failed. None of the banks has reported any attacks. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ransomware gangs shift tactics, making crimes harder to track

Tech Reviews & Tips

A person uses a laptop while working from home in Tiskilwa, Illinois, in 2020. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg)

How to fight email spam, end printer ink subscription and more | Q&A with Patrick Marshall

Retail

A customer shops for cereal at a Kroger Co. supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Kroger Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on March 7. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

US lawmakers skeptical Kroger-Albertsons merger will lower prices

Agriculture

Workers pick corn and organic peppers at Yakama Farms, formerly Inaba Family Farms in Wapato, Wash., on Aug. 23, 2022. In the face of discrimination and hate, the Inabas and the Yakama Nation forged a bond through a farm in eastern Washington that has lasted for more than 100 years. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times) XNYT260 XNYT260

A Japanese American family and a native tribe blend at a WA farm

Amazon

A worker uses a forklift to remove a pallet of goods from a storage rack in an aisle at the Amazon Inc. fulfillment center in Bengaluru, India, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. India, with its more than 1.3 billion people, has become a fierce battleground for Amazon.com Inc., and the company has committed some $5.5 billion to building up its network there. 775229591

Amazon is shuttering some India businesses amid global cuts

Boeing & Aerospace

As another Alaskan airlines jet taxies by, an Alaska Airlines plane is deiced early Tuesday morning, November 29, 2022. Over 100 Alaska flights were cancelled due to the weather. 222318

More than 170 flights canceled at Sea-Tac amid Seattle-area snow

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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.

Complete coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX »

Microsoft

Tom Smith at his home office in Lafayette, Calif., Aug. 28, 2021. As soon as Tom Smith got his hands on Codex – a new artificial intelligence technology that writes its own computer programs – he gave it a job interview. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)

Microsoft, others face lawsuit on the way artificial intelligence is built

Personal Finance

Series I bonds (Jonathan Weiss/Dreamstime / TNS)

I bonds are now paying 6.89%. Here’s how to buy them

Money Makeovers

Ann Wolfe, at her home in Wedgwood June 23, 2022.

She bought a house in Seattle for $36,000 in 1973. How can she release some cash?

Economy

Empty offices in the Omniturm skyscraper in the financial district in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.

There’s a job-market riddle at the heart of the coming recession

Local Business

A customer shops for cereal at a Kroger Co. supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Kroger Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on March 7. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

US lawmakers skeptical Kroger-Albertsons merger will lower prices

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Deep discounts lure record number of holiday weekend shoppers

A record 196.7 million American consumers flocked to stores and e-commerce websites over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in search of deals.

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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE – ONLINE OR IN PRINT – BEFORE NOV. 13, 2022. Ñ ÒIn an environment where some people work from home while others work in an office,Ó writes The New York Times Work Friend columnist Roxane Gay, Òit can be challenging to feel as if youÕre a part of the office culture and are being included in both formal and informal conversations.Ó (Margeaux Walter/The New York Times)

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