The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will resume normal trading hours on Monday.
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Mush! Watch a team of Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini robot dogs pull a truck down the street
Boston Dynamics’ four-legged SpotMini weighs 66 pounds, can carry up to 31 pounds and run for 90 minutes. A team of the robot dogs can pull a truck.
Best Buy names Corie Barry as new CEO, will replace Hubert Joly
The company said that it has made this move to “provide leadership continuity as the company continues to execute its strategic growth initiatives.”
Amazon employees listen to customers through Echo products, report finds
Employees listen to Echo recordings, transcribe and annotate them and feed them back to the software so that Alexa can better grasp human speech.
E. coli outbreak in five states spreads, sickens 96 — 24 more than CDC’s original report
The outbreak, begun in March,has spread across five states: Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia and Georgia. Eleven people have been hospitalized.
FDA proposes lowering standard level of fluoride allowed in bottled water
The proposed rule, which was released Tuesday, would set the allowable amount of fluoride in bottled water to be 0.7 milligrams per liter.
PewDiePie back on top as largest YouTube channel over Indian music label T-Series
According to current YouTube data, PewDiePie has around 92,477,000 subscribers, whereas T-Series has around 92,312,000.
Google suspended from LGBTQ equality index after failing to remove controversial app
HRC noted that it became aware of an appdistributed in Google’s Play Store that “supports the practice of so-called ‘conversion therapy’.”
Amazon plans 800-job expansion in Austin — but it’s not related to HQ2
Austin serves as one of Amazon’s 17 North American tech hubs, and it currently houses 6,600 Amazon employees.
Centene to buy smaller rival WellCare Health Plans in deal worth $17.3 billion
The companies also saidthey expect to havepro forma 2019 revenues of approximately$97 billion and will have about 22 million members nationwide.