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Microsoft's one-time retirement program will be open to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more. The company is also decoupling stock ...

Time to hang it up? Microsoft will be giving some employees that chance. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is offering a one-time voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year ...

Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran has an “ambitious” nuclear program but doesn’t have a program for building nuclear weapons currently. “It is an evaluation that ...

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Last March, Leopardo Construction began construction on the $69-million office-to-residential conversion of 79 West Monroe Street, the first of an ambitious Chicago initiative that involves the city ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

The agency has faced blowback from business leaders and Republicans over plans to end the popular energy efficiency program. By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington Lee Zeldin, ...

A growing number of special education teachers say they use artificial intelligence platforms to draft all or part of students’ individualized education programs, even as many districts lack policies ...

Portland will offer $7 million to support office-to-housing conversions. The pilot program will fund two to three development-ready projects. Loans will be forgivable over 10 years with affordability ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program, a next-generation nuclear power program that will deliver resilient, secure, and assured energy to support national ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...