While USAID workers in Washington, D.C. are packing up their belongings for a second day, the ripple effects of federal job cuts have wider reaches.
Patricia Gross, 47, has worked as an independent government contractor with various nonprofits since 2018. Those nonprofits are now out of work, and so is Gross.
An activist group, The People’s Union USA, is calling for a complete boycott of consumer spending in the U.S. on Feb. 28.
Quantum computers could speed up some computing tasks by orders of magnitude — but they’re still in early stages.