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Colorado is in a heated battle with Illinois to win designation as the nation’s top hub for quantum technology, with potentially $1 billion in federal support, not to mention multiple times that in economic activity, at stake. The CHIPS and Science Act directs $52 billion in federal dollars to boost U.S. competitiveness in semiconductors and restore the country’s leadership in chip manufacturing and other advanced technologies. The Biden administration announced Monday that it would make the first award under the act by…

By Heather Haddon | Photography by Lucy Hewett for The Wall Street Journal BOLINGBROOK, Ill.—CosMc’s has landed, but visiting now may take a few eons.McDonald’s new restaurant concept is drawing long lines of curiosity seekers since it opened in this Chicago suburb last weekend. The space-themed brand is the fast-food giant’s first new U.S. restaurant concept in its more than 60-year history, designed to deliver a beverage-heavy menu through takeout-focused locations built with multiple drive-throughs.Copyright ©2023Dow…

Natural-color satellite image of farmland around Peoria, Illinois, captured by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 on October 22, 2022.Much of the canned pumpkin that ends up in Thanksgiving pies and soups came from Central Illinois.Pumpkins, a type of winter squash native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, are among the oldest domesticated plants. Archaeological evidence indicates that several different species of pumpkins were independently domesticated between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago in…

I remember getting my first phone. It was a Nokia flip phone, and not any of the cool ones. I can’t even remember the make and model. It was semi-durable. It lasted me through the end of middle school and most of the way through high school. It wasn’t pretty, and it’s not something I flashed around. In my school, all the cool kids (the ones with wealthy families, as it turns out) all had Motorola Razrs. In my mind, that classic Razr pink color is equivalent to green, as it always left me with envy.Boogeyman's Director…

The Writers Guild of America is currently on strike against against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Screenwriters are battling the Hollywood studios for higher pay, better working conditions, and contract protections from AI replacement. Andrew Callaghan on His Radical Approach to Interviewing In the midst of the ongoing labor dispute, striking writers have accused Barack Obama of crossing the picket line. The former president participated in a live event promoting his recently released Netflix…

Holed up at home during the pandemic lockdown three years ago, 13-year-old Shreya Nallamothu was scrolling through social media when she noticed a pattern: Children even younger than her were the stars — dancing, cracking one-liners and being generally adorable. “It seemed innocuous to me at first,” Nallamothu said. But as she watched more and more posts of kids pushing products or their mishaps going viral, she started to wonder: Who is looking out for them? “I realized that there's a lot of exploitation that can…

Holed up at home during the pandemic lockdown three years ago, 13-year-old Shreya Nallamothu was scrolling through social media when she noticed a pattern: Children even younger than her were the stars - dancing, cracking one-liners and being generally adorable. "It seemed innocuous to me at first," Nallamothu said. But as she watched more and more posts of kids pushing products or their mishaps going viral, she started to wonder: Who is looking out for them? "I realized that there's a lot of exploitation that can happen…

Agricultural equipment makers like John Deere will be legally required to give Colorado farmers manuals for diagnostic software and other repair tools thanks to the state’s new right-to-repair law. The first-of-its-findlegislation could have wide-reaching ripple effects, especially in the tech industry where consumer groups have spent years jockeying with device manufacturers over the right to repair their devices. For farmers, the successful Colorado legislation could spark copycats laws nationwide.John Deere Owners…

Rivian Automotive Inc is relocating parts of its manufacturing engineering team to Illinois to speed up production, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The reorganisation, expected to be announced soon, would mean those working on manufacturing engineering would be asked to relocate to central Illinois or its headquarters in Irvine, California, according to the WSJ report. "In terms of ramping production, it's helpful to have the manufacturing and engineering teams closer to our…

Electric-vehicle maker Rivian Automotive Inc. RIVN -0.66% is relocating parts of its manufacturing engineering team to its Illinois factory as part of a reorganization aimed at speeding up production, according to a person familiar with the plan.The reorganization is expected to be announced soon and will result in a significant portion of the engineering team that works on manufacturing-related tasks being asked to relocate from around the country to central Illinois or…