All Stories from June 8, 2019 (Change date)
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Building that formerly housed Chicago store burns downJun 08, 2019 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Former patrons are fondly remembering a long-closed Chicago department store, the vestiges of which were destroyed by fire. Gately's People's Store once o...
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Bears100: From stadium proposals to family ties, Halas' team has deep roots in the suburbsJun 08, 2019 6:30 am - Viewing Soldier Field as an inadequate home for his Chicago Bears compared to several other NFL stadiums, team founder George S. Halas traveled to the Northwest suburbs ...
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Seven updates from Apple that matter to most of usJun 08, 2019 6:23 am - Apple is ready to embrace the dark side - and kill off the app that started it all. "Dark mode" for iPhones and the end of iTunes are among the cornucopia of updates App...
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Why storm tracking could be a casualty of 5GJun 08, 2019 6:20 am - Satellites tracking water vapor in 2012 helped scientists accurately predict Superstorm Sandy's frightening turn toward New York and New Jersey where it killed dozens of...
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As Walmart turns to robots, it's the human workers who feel like machinesJun 08, 2019 6:19 am - To Walmart executives, the Auto-C self-driving floor scrubber is the future of retail automation - a multimillion-dollar bet that advanced robots will optimize operation...
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Analysis: Big Tech is having a terrible week. Things will only get worse.Jun 08, 2019 6:18 am - After years of operating largely free of federal regulation, our tech overlords are now firmly in the regulatory spotlight. And for them, the worst is almost certainly y...
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Open-source 'Great Satan' no more, Microsoft wins over skepticsJun 08, 2019 6:10 am - In 2014, Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie wrote up a proposal to acquire GitHub. Then he filed the plan away in a drawer. Every once in a while he'd take the plan out...
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Uchman's Arlington selections for Saturday June 8, 2019 racesJun 08, 2019 6:00 am - Here is today's link to Daily Herald handicapper Ron Uchman's selections for thoroughbred racing at Arlington International on Saturday, June 8, 2019, plus Joe Mazzone's...
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Analysis: Apple, Facebook and Google have lost the monopoly argumentJun 08, 2019 6:00 am - The future of the tech industry was once decided by messianic entrepreneurs (assisted by venture capitalists and assorted Silicon Valley boosters) pumping out their serm...
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How Peru used balloons to restore internet after massive earthquakeJun 08, 2019 6:00 am - One of the biggest challenges in the wake of any disaster is restoring communication networks. When Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston in 2017, the Cajun Navy relied on ap...