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By DEVI SHASTRI, Associated Press Some Apple AirPods wireless headphones can be used as hearing aids with a new software update available in October. It’s a high-profile move that experts applaud, even if they only reach a small portion of the millions of Americans with hearing loss. An estimated 30 million people — 1 in 8 Americans over the age of 12 — have hearing loss in both ears.

Texas-based law firm Vinson & Elkins opened a Denver office in the city’s Cherry Creek neighborhood on Friday. “Denver offers a central U. S. location with easy access to both coasts and Texas, making the city a strategic market for companies with national and international business operations,” said Sarah Morgan, Vinson & Elkins managing partner for the Denver office. “The city’s thriving business ecosystem, coupled with a robust legal talent pool, presents numerous opportunities for us to expand on our established local client base and attract top-flight lawyers to the firm.” Morgan also co-heads Vinson & Elkins’s mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets practice group. Along with Morgan, Vinson & Elkins partners Michael Joyce and Ramey Layne will open the office with plans to hire additional partners and associates. “Denver has cultivated a dynamic culture that fuels innovation and collaboration across industries from real estate to technology to energy,” Layne said. “We look forward to growing our office and attracting local lawyers who want to contribute to our success by working with some of the world’s leading clients that shape industries and drive international business.” Related Articles Business | Cherry Creek clinic stops allowing male patients to self-test for sexually transmitted infections Business | Colorado’s first Waldorf Astoria-branded property coming to Cherry Creek Business | New owners of Anthony’s Pizza eye 200-store expansion — but not just yet Business | Billion-dollar redevelopment to transform Cherry Creek’s west side over next few years Business | Dead leaf, pumpkin drop-off recycling program opens in Denver Lawyers in the Denver office will focus on mergers and acquisitions, securities, tax equity and project finance transactions. The firm has worked on more than 1,000 mergers and acquisitions transactions over the past decade, exceeding $1 trillion in value, including significant transactions involving Colorado companies. Additionally, the firm has worked on 100 initial public offerings, exceeding $36 billion in value, including multiple initial public offerings for Colorado companies.

On the day after the Fourth of July, a fancy dude ranch in Grand County hosted a dance for its guests and homeowners. An embattled Denver developer says what was said that night by a drinkware company CEO’s wife amounts to defamation — and that he deserves $100 million. Brian Watson, the CEO and owner of Northstar Commercial Partners, who has been fighting Amazon in court for more than four years, filed a lawsuit in late August over comments he says were made that night by Illinois resident Laura Elsaden. Elsaden’s husband, Sami Elsaden, is the CEO of Ignite USA, which produces travel mugs and other drinkware. Watson claims in the lawsuit that Laura Elsaden, in comments to other guests that night — he was not present — called Watson a “criminal” and said Watson has had numerous “relations” with “prostitutes.” “Mr.

When Sekisui House, a Japanese homebuilder, announced it would purchase M. D. C. Holdings at the start of the year, an unanswered question was how long the Denver-based homebuilder’s founder Larry Mizel and his top lieutenant, David Mandarich, might hang around. There is an answer. Mizel and Mandarich are scheduled to leave the company they had steered for five decades on Dec.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but you don’t need to type any of them to search the internet these days. Boosted by artificial intelligence, software on your phone can automatically analyze objects live in your camera view or in a photo (or video) to immediately round up a list of search results.

As Jim Covello’s car barreled up Highway 101 from San Jose to San Francisco this month, he counted the billboards about artificial intelligence. The nearly 40 signs he passed, including one that promoted something called Writer Enterprise AI and another for Speech AI, were fresh evidence, he thought, of an economic bubble. “Not that long ago, they were all crypto,” Covello said of the billboards.