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Tech writer Brian Chen rides the electric Ride 1Up 700, which sells for $1,495. A VanMoof S3 e-bike cost $1,998. (Jim Wilson / The New York Times) For use with NYT story by Brian X. Chen

E-bikes are having their moment. They deserve it.

Tech Reviews & Tips

Fraudsters see opportunities to target us in these uncertain times. Here are their most popular schemes and how we can protect ourselves. — FOR USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED TECH FIX BY BRIAN X. CHEN FOR MAY 13, 2020 — ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. — XNYT56

Don’t let fraudster rats take your identity and money; here’s a guide to popular scams

Real Estate

During Gov. Inslee’s stay-home order during the coronavirus, an eastward-looking view of Seattle homes with Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains in the background are seen from above 32nd Ave. NE, between 65th and 62nd streets, Saturday, April 4, 2020 in Seattle. The view looks across Northeast Seattle toward View Ridge. 213566

King County home prices drop. Check the map to see the change in your community

Retail

One person wields a skateboard, another a hammer at a ShoePalace store. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS) 1679424 1679424

Can sneaker resellers stop looters from profiting?

Maritime Industry

Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Trident Seafoods Tod Hall, at left, Manager of Vessel Operations, Roger LeBel, Island Enterprise Purcer and Mike Luchino, Director of Operations for Catchers Processors group at the Tacoma pier where the ships are being prepared for the trip to Alaska. 213655

As Alaska fishing season set to begin, fearful communities and seafood industry try to prevent spread of coronavirus

Boeing & Aerospace

A Boeing 777X lands at Boeing Field in Seattle after its first flight on January 25, 2020. The 777X features giant carbon-composite wings, the largest Boeing has ever designed. The wings are so long that to fit at standard airport gates, each has to fold upward on a hinge 11 feet from the tip. The new jet is powered by the GE9X engine. Photographed on January 25, 2020. 212736

Boeing lines up new 777X and 787 orders as it sells off jets once meant for Russian cargo carrier

Amazon

Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., listens during a discussion at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Amazon is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with matter, an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten convenience chains. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg 775230539

Bezos defends Amazon’s ‘Black lives matter’ message in exchange with angry customer

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

Looters enter the downtown Nordstrom Saturday. Protestors and rioters take to the Seattle City streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police Saturday, May 30, 2020. 214106

Seattle area corporations respond to protests over police brutality with messages of solidarity, but few specifics

Economy

Two security workers are diminished by a giant plywood panels on the sidewalk outside the former Macy’s store at Pine and 3rd Avenue, Wednesday, June3, 2020. Everywhere in downtown Seattle there is plywood covering broken out windows and windows that are still in one piece.. 214149

New job openings lag in Seattle metro area | Coronavirus Economy daily chart

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Downtown Seattle is wounded, but not down for long

Money Makeovers

Standing on his front porch Thursday, March 19, 2020, David O’Meara takes in the view. 213399

Old-fashioned retirement protects Seattle ironworker and his wife during market sell-off

Personal Finance

Thursday, May 21, 2020 Money makover for this Steilacoom couple, Carly and Michael Long who have one child and another on the way. 214005

Young family is down but not out after triple punch of bad luck | Money Makeover

Markets

Wall Street’s rally zooms higher after surprise gain in jobs

For weeks, critics said Wall Street’s big rally made no sense when the economy seemed set for only more despair. On Friday, it got a bit of validation. The S&P 500 jumped another 2.6% after a report said the U.S. job market surprisingly strengthened last month, bolstering hopes that the worst of the recession may...

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

Sarah Kinney gives supplies away at Vermillion, which has reopened as an aid station for protesters rallying at Seattle’s East police precinct half a block away on Friday, June 5, 2020. 214178

Three Seattle restaurants mobilize to support protesters — here’s a look at how  VIEW

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Sarah Kinney gives supplies away at Vermillion, which has reopened as an aid station for protesters rallying at Seattle’s East police precinct half a block away on Friday, June 5, 2020. 214178

Three Seattle restaurants mobilize to support protesters — here’s a look at how  VIEW

Agriculture

Wall Street spends millions to buy up Washington state water

Careers

Hasti Nazem, 35, left her job just before the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. She’s now stuck in limbo, mining her network for introductions, but still without a full-time job. (Nicholas Albrecht / The New York Times)

‘Just sitting in limbo’: For many professionals, careers are on hold

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