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We’re looking at another year of internet services dominating many aspects of our lives. (Glenn Harvey / The New York Times)

The tech that will invade our lives in 2021

Tech Reviews & Tips

Screen capture of iPhone’s Exposure Notifications setting, which is now enabled for users in Washington state.

WA Notify system goes live with COVID exposure notifications for iPhone and Android users in Washington state

Real Estate

Alice Loh, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, is a renter in North Seattle who has lost income during the pandemic. Loh works as a massage therapist and lost much of her business during the pandemic. She is current on her apartment (seen in the background) rent, but has had to drain her savings to help cover costs. 216052

Seattle-area rents fell in 2020, but not everyone caught a break

Retail

FILE – This June 26, 2019 file photo shows a Starbucks sign outside a Starbucks coffe. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) NYBZ333 NYBZ333

Starbucks shuts some Manhattan stores over possible protests

Maritime Industry

These saildrones were used for the first time by NOAA Fisheries to conduct acoustic surveys of pollock in the Being Sea. They use wind power for propulsion and wind power for electricity for computers and sensors. They also harvest hydro power from water in the turbines. They are shown here in the San Francisco Bay area, where the manufacturer, Saildrone Inc. is based. The drones sailed thousands of miles from California to the Bering Sea and back. DateLine: Almeda California Date: 2020

North Pacific fishing crews on edge about what they’ll find this month, after a tough 2020 of small fish and COVID-19

Boeing & Aerospace

NASA cuts short first ‘hot-fire’ test of its massive moon rocket, already plagued by delays and cost overruns

NASA fired the four engines of its towering Space Launch System rocket for the first time Saturday after a decade of development, but the engines were cut off well short of the intended duration, a sign that something went wrong. NASA had been hoping to fire the four RS-25 rocket engines for eight minutes, but...

Amazon

Amazon will let companies build voice assistants on Alexa

Amazon.com is offering other companies the ability to use the building blocks of the Alexa digital assistant for their own automated versions, the latest effort to embed the company's voice software into other devices.

Amazon at 25

FILE – In this file photo made Nov. 16, 2009, Stephen Guymon, of Twin Falls, Idaho, separates packages for final shipment inside the 800,000 sq. ft. Amazon.com warehouse in Goodyear, Ariz. Amazon.com Inc., reports quarterly earnings Thursday, April 22, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin file) NYBZ139

Tell us about your Amazon experience and what else you want to know

Microsoft

A vile of te Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is prepared on opening day of the Connecticut’s largest COVID-19 Vaccination Drive-Through Clinic Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, in East Hartford, Conn. The former Pratt & Whitney Runway has been converted into a ten-lane, drive-through COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Clinic, with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine being administered by Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC). Vaccinations are by appointment only to eligible individuals in Phase 1a and 1b through Connecticut’s 211 system or the CDC’s Vaccine Administration Management System. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) NYOTK NYOTK

Inslee sets goal of 45,000 COVID-19 vaccinations a day in Washington; everyone 65 and older eligible now

Economy

Why finding workers is getting harder for U.S. homebuilders

Featured Columnist

Pause in funding by corporations won’t stop the undercutting of democracy

Money Makeovers

L – R: Theodore, 4; Jessica Long holding her son Zachary, 1; and dad Loren Kite stand in front of their Seattle home Monday, November 23, 2020. They are the Money Makeover subjects for Nov. 29. Loren teaches carpentry to kids, Jess is a teacher. 215729

With competing demands on couple’s cash, saving for retirement took a back seat

Personal Finance

The dollar figure that the federal financial aid form spits out has long left families confused and despondent. And then, there are those great expectations. (Robert Neubecker/The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY YOUR MONEY BY RON LIEBER FOR DEC. 30, 2020. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. — XNYT89 XNYT89

FAFSA’s Expected Family Contribution is going away. Good riddance.

Markets

In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, traders work on the floor, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. U.S. stocks are wobbling between small gains and losses on Tuesday, a day after dropping to their worst loss in months amid the worsening pandemic and potentially market-moving Senate elections. (Colin Ziemer/New York Stock Exchange via AP) NYRD202

Newbies discover penny stocks, and 1 trillion shares get traded in a month

Artificial Intelligence

Fatima Abu Zeid , a mother of 6 children shows her biometric ID card at the Qalandiya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem on February 25,2020. Israel upgraded its West Bank checkpoints with facial recognition technology to verify Palestinians’ identities as they cross into Israel. The new system is helping to shorten the amount of time it takes to cross the checkpoints but the use of the technology is drawing criticism about the role the controversial technology plays in Israel’s military control over Palestinians. (Photo by Heidi Levine for The Seattle Times).

A tale of two AI cities: The Seattle connection to Israel's surveillance network

Local Business

One hundred cutouts of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stand on the southeast lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 2018. They were put up by Avaaz, a global civic movement asking for Facebook to quickly ban bots and disinformation before midterm elections in November. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez

Silicon Valley braces for tougher regulation in Biden’s Washington

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Why finding workers is getting harder for U.S. homebuilders

Agriculture

These quarters are part of a Gebbers Farms, a seasonal labor camp in Okanogan County. This photo was taken prior to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic had yet to arrive and the wearing of masks was not required.

Mexican workers who left mid-harvest describe a COVID-ridden cherry season in Okanogan County: ‘It was like we were disposable’

Careers

Supporters of President Trump invade the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (Michael Robinson Chavez / The Washington Post)

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