Troy Wolverton: At Ces, Voice Assistants Assert Themselves

But then again, maybe it’s not really trying to? As you’re shopping for Black Friday, you may notice a brand new arm of Amazon. It’s called Haul. Tucked away in a tab in the top bar of your Amazon app, it quietly sits beside Groceries, but offers a wildly different experience from the Amazon you know.

Without accountability, even the most talented and well-intentioned leaders fail. These are the behaviors that demonstrate it. Have you ever worked for a leader who made a mistake, a bad decision, or didn’t know the answer to something and, rather than admit it, they deflected it by blaming someone else, justifying it, or acting like it didn’t happen?

To design a career that’s authentic to you, you must determine how you interact with energy drivers and drainers. The majority of employees—a full 80%—who quit their jobs during the Great Resignation regret the decision. That’s according to a survey by the HR and payroll services provider Paychex. In fact, more than two-thirds attempted to get hired back.

Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Lab soared past 470,000 feet for the highest amateur spaceflight. Such feats have made it a top incubator for space industry talent. This could not be happening. Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) was readying a redesigned model, Aftershock II, for an even higher ascent from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

For decades, Xcel Energy’s sprawling Comanche Station coal facility near Pueblo has generated power for customers across the utility’s service territory in Colorado — and has generated thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue for local governments, schools and special districts. As part of the state’s transition to powering the electric grid with mostly renewable energy, Xcel will close the third unit on the roughly 700-acre Comanche campus by 2031, shuttering all the company’s coal facilities in Colorado.

The ONE Group, a global restaurant company based in Denver, quietly launched its latest venture, Salt Water Social, in Cherry Creek on November 7. The upscale seafood-focused eatery sits in the former Thirsty Lion space, which has been vacant since 2019. “Despite not having done any marketing yet, we’re thrilled with the level of business we’ve seen so far,” said Emanuel “Manny” Hilario, CEO of The ONE Group, which also owns multiple locations of STK Steakhouse, Kona Grill, Benihana and RA Sushi. The concept was initially developed for London and Toronto, but the pandemic brought the project to a halt.