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iPhone X an evolution of the iPhone, but not the smartphone

CUPERTINO, Calif. – Apple needed to wow skeptics with its 10th-anniversary smartphone, the iPhone X. (That’s pronounced “iPhone 10,” for the curious.) As expected, Apple showed off a phone w...

DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Ford’s push for driverless vehicles includes a man pretending to be a car seat

Andy Schaudt is an invisible man. He is wearing a “seat suit” to make it look like his Ford Transit Connect van is driving itself. His bespectacled face is obscured by ...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Ballet Durango opens new space

Ballet Durango recently opened studios at 225 East Eighth Ave., and an open house will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Sept. 22 at the new location. Director Frances Rosser Taylor, with ...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

San Juan Basin Public Health hires 2

San Juan Basin Public Health recently hired two to its team. Kristin D. Pulatie was hired as director of assessment and planning. In her new position, Pulatie will assess communit...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Apple edges closer to fraught age of facial recognition tech

A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology as mainly a tool of surve...

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Apple may test the bounds of iPhone love with a $1,000 model

SAN FRANCISCO – Apple is expected to sell its fanciest iPhone yet for $1,000, crossing into a new financial frontier that will test how much consumers are willing to pay for a device that’s ...