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Since the Chattanooga law firm Warren & Griffin is an almost paperless office, the technology was in place to work from anywhere when the coronavirus pandemic struck, company officials say. The firm allowed its support staff to work from home if they wanted. While some support staff preferred to work in the office setting, Warren …

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and East Tennessee State University have partnered to create the BlueSky Institute to address a shortage of technology graduates in the state. The BlueSky Institute is an accelerated program in which students earn a bachelor’s degree from ETSU in two years. The first cohort will be 15 to 20 students taught …

General Motors and its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise will partner with Microsoft to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles, the companies said Tuesday. Additionally, GM will use Microsoft as its preferred public cloud provider, working with it to improve the automaker’s advances in digital technology and robotics. Microsoft joins GM, Honda and institutional investors in …

Sukriti Chadha, a product manager for Spotify specializing in adaptive technology, is passionate about encouraging students to pursue careers in technology. When she left Manhattan to stay with a friend in Chattanooga during the pandemic, she took an opportunity to work with Red Bank High School students to design projects that would help a peer …

Kenston O’Neal says he always has been a tech-oriented person. “Even growing up as a kid when I got my first computer, I took it apart to see if I could put it back together,” he says. “My mom said ‘You better put it back together and it better work,’ and I did and it …

This story was updated with additional information on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020 at 8:54 p.m. NASHVILLE — Tennesseans and Georgians continued casting record numbers of early votes in the Nov. 3 presidential election last week. In Hamilton County, in-person early voting and mail-in absentee figures through Saturday threatened to eclipse 2016’s totals with four more days of …

Residents in LaFayette, Georgia, and surrounding areas of Walker County have concerns over a proposed health care campus that could be built in their neck of the woods. Michael Allen Hicks is worried about possible flooding and how traffic will be controlled on the narrow and winding Burnt Mill Road that borders his property. Randy …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s move to defer Social Security payroll taxes could be taking him into treacherous political territory. His directive — aimed at boosting an economy shaken by the coronavirus pandemic — doesn’t affect retirement benefits but impacts how they’re paid for. Democrats seized on it Monday as a signal that Trump …

As schools prepare to resume classes this fall and more of the economy reopens even as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, America’s biggest public utility is backing a decades-old technology that could zap the virus pathogens out of the air in public places to help limit the spread of the infection. The Tennessee Valley Authority is …

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s massive anti-racism protests and have been further exposed by the coronavirus pandemic. “COVID-19 has been likened to an X-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies …