The career of Billy Joel and the development of digital recording uniquely paralleled each other, as both began in the 1960s and lurched forward until they finally caught on a decade later.

The Australian government has filed a lawsuit against American industrial giant 3M, seeking 2 billion Australian dollars in compensation for the alleged use of forever chemicals in fire-fighting foam that has now contaminated dozens of defence bases in the country, the BBC reports. Australia’s Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said the lawsuit was the largest ever brought […]

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor, a long-serving IEEE volunteer and former engineering director at 3M, died on 9 March. The IEEE Life Fellow was 104.

Readers of The Institute might remember Gus from his 2022 profile: “From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M.” Just last year, he and I coauthored twoarticles. One discusses how to leverage relationships to boost your career growth. The other…

More than 100 Twin Cities clergy gathered at the skyway entrance to Target’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters Thursday to sing, pray and demand the retailer take a stronger stand against federal law enforcement activity in the metro and prevent agents from using its properties as staging grounds. “We are shopping elsewhere, we shall not be moved,” […]