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Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales: How did Intel lose its Silicon Valley crown?

Intel Corp. is still the dominant provider of chips for personal computers and servers, but its reign as the chip king of Silicon Valley has ended, and the unresolved question is whether its woes stem from reaching the limits of technology, the people in charge or a mixture of both. …

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Style Scouting: Vol. 19

Pin Share Tweet So how have you been? Is it feeling and looking like fall in your part of the country? Around Lake Murray, there are only one or two trees that I have seen that have begun to change color. I will have to wait a few weeks for …

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Interest rates hit historic low for tenth time this year

Mortgage interest rates have once again hit a historic low. This week’s Freddie Mac average for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dipped to 2.81%. This time in 2019, the average rate was 3.69%. In 2018? We saw an average of 4.85%. Despite the historically low rates, mortgage applications went down this …

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