Business

Pine Knoll Plantation farm manager Mitch Bulger near one of the thousands of pecan trees blown down by Hurricane Michael.

Another Storm Victim — Pecan Groves In Southwest Georgia

9:43am October 23, 2018

by Grant Blankenship

Decades-old pecan trees in Georgia were among the victims when Hurricane Michael swept through the state last week. This year's harvest will be slim and it will take years to recover.

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Worcester City Hall's plaza was refurbished in 2010 as part of a city beautification program.

National

Forget Oakland Or Hoboken. Worcester, Mass., Is The New 'It' Town

8:38am October 23, 2018

by Aaron Schachter

Once left for dead, the city outside Boston is seeing its stock price rise so fast that it is outpacing nearly every other small city in America.

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Betsy Leyva is co-owner of a Brooklyn, N.Y., bakery that has an online-only restaurant, with deliveries by Uber Eats.

Uber's Online-Only Restaurants: The Future, Or The End Of Dining Out?

7:29am October 23, 2018

by Jasmine Garsd

Uber has helped create about 800 "virtual restaurants" in the U.S. — eateries that only exist online. Uber says its delivery service helps restaurants grow, but some in the industry see downsides.

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Jowan Osterlund holds a microchip implant in Stockholm in 2017. His company, Biohax International, is a leading provider of the devices in Sweden.

Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin

10:36pm October 22, 2018

by Maddy Savage

Proponents of the chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of personal health data that might be stored on the devices.

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Lexi Sturdy, election war room lead, sits at her desk during a demonstration in the war room, where Facebook monitors election-related content on the platform, in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 17.

Facebook, Exploited By Influence Campaigns, Tries To Clamp Down With 'War Room'

6:32pm October 22, 2018

by Tim Mak

The social networking behemoth says a new command center at its Silicon Valley headquarters will let it respond more quickly to foreign disinformation operations ahead of Election Day.

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The first set of barns that will eventually supply chickens for the Costco project was recently completed near the town of Hooper, Neb. Approximately 20,000 breeding hens will be raised here.

National

Costco Builds Nebraska Supply Chain For Its $5 Rotisserie Chickens

5:57pm October 22, 2018

by Grant Gerlock

Costco is building a facility in Nebraska to process chickens from hundreds of nearby farms for sale as rotisserie chickens. The warehouse retailer sells 60 million rotisserie chickens each year.

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Despite a new congressional mandate to set minimum seat widths and legroom standards, the FAA is unlikely to expand airline seat size anytime soon.

Cramped Legroom On Flights Unlikely To Change, Despite Congressional Mandate

5:13pm October 22, 2018

by David Schaper

Frequent flyers have often complained of shrinking legroom on flights. Now Congress has ordered the FAA to establish minimum seat widths and pitch — but that's unlikely to result in more space.

Short Seller Andrew Left and Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Economy

While Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn builds a factory in Wisconsin, it's also looking to use its resources to modernize the state's ginseng crop, which Wisconsin farmers sell to Asian markets.

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Business

Another Storm Victim — Pecan Groves In Southwest Georgia

Forget Oakland Or Hoboken. Worcester, Mass., Is The New 'It' Town

Uber's Online-Only Restaurants: The Future, Or The End Of Dining Out?

Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin

Facebook, Exploited By Influence Campaigns, Tries To Clamp Down With 'War Room'

Costco Builds Nebraska Supply Chain For Its $5 Rotisserie Chickens

Cramped Legroom On Flights Unlikely To Change, Despite Congressional Mandate

Short Shrift For Short Sellers

The State We're In: Collective Bargaining

Taiwan's Foxconn And Wisconsin Farmers Bond Over Ginseng