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Amazon goes Minority Report
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that online retailer Amazon has been granted a patent for "anticipatory shipping," a technique that will use your previous purchases to anticipate what you want to buy, and pre-ship it to the closest hub so it can be quicker ...
Dems, GOP fear bomb from outside groups
A super PAC’s abortive plan to launch incendiary, personally charged attack ads against President Barack Obama...
Presidential debates: 10 questions Lehrer should ask
The performances of President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney in the upcoming debates will be previewed to death and then dissected to second death. But what about the performance of the debate moderator...
Building community
Bart Wear is in the construction business. He helps school groups, churches, businesses and other organizations turn shipping containers into classrooms, clinics, dental offices...
Chancellor: Discontinue, reorganize CU’s J school
CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano agrees that the School of Journalism and Mass Communication should be discontinued and then reorganized.In a Jan. 10 letter to CU President Bruce Benson, DiStefano concurs with the findings of a campus committee and recommends ...
Denver-based mining company accused of attacking Peruvian farmer
On the morning of Sept. 18, an altercation was reported between private security forces and Goldman Environmental Prize recipient Máxima Acuña on contested land...
House poised to pass historic health-care reform bill
WASHINGTON — With a personal push from President Barack...
What will happen to Boulder’s 2020 citizen initiatives?
The steed of Susan B. Anthony’s democracy was a steel single-speed. For Chelsea Castellano, it’s an e-bike. One Monday in June, she pedals around...
GameStop CEO: ‘Sony and Microsoft could have cut us off a...
7inShaToday, GameStop announced that it is selling refurbished...
Anatomy of a mistake
The circumstances surrounding the city of Boulder’s purchase of Valmont Butte are suspect, at best. At worst, fraudulent...
Workers at iPhone factory strike over strict standards, poor training
Seen those super-whiny, incredibly babyish complaints about near-microscopic nicks on new iPhone 5s...
Records indicate Hall made call on refusing election activists
Phone records obtained by Boulder Weekly seem to confirm that despite her earlier comments to the contrary, Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall was the one who denied election activists’ Sept. 28 request to observe the ballot printing process...
