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Target to raise its minimum wage to $11 per hour, promising $15 by 2020

Authored by cnbc.com

The big-box retailer said Monday it will start raising its minimum wage next month from $10 an hour and will eventually reach $11 for all its U.S. stores.

The pay raise will outpace Wal-Mart's recent increase in its minimum wage.

Target raised its hourly minimum pay rate in April 2015 to $9, up from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour at the time.

Only two states in the U.S. — Massachusetts and Washington — currently have a minimum wage of $11 per hour.

Target also committed to boosting its minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020.

At a press conference in Florida last year, he told the crowd: "The minimum wage has to go up.

For now, states — and individual companies — are left to make their own decisions on whether to raise the bar. »

If data is the new oil, are tech companies robbing us blind?

Authored by digitaltrends.com

The other defense is that many companies provide for some revenue-sharing agreements with more popular users, such as YouTube.

That’s becoming more true, too, but it’s only a handful of users who can make decent money from this.”.

In his book Who Owns the Future?, Lanier suggests that users should receive a micropayment every time their data is used to earn a company money. »

University of Tokyo pair invent loop-based quantum computing technique

Authored by japantimes.co.jp

Japanese scientists have invented an approach to quantum computing that renders a far larger number of calculations more efficiently than existing quantum computers.

The circuit performs multiple tasks, switching from one task to another rapidly through instant manipulations of the pulses.

Furusawa’s new approach will allow a single circuit to process more than 1 million qubits theoretically, his team said in a press release, calling it an “ultimate” quantum computing method. »

400 college professors say you should be able to sue Equifax and other financial institutions

Authored by marketwatch.com

Some 423 law school, university and college professors are sending a letter to two senators, encouraging them to support a rule the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has passed.

“Class action lawsuits are an important means of protecting consumers harmed by violations of federal or state law,” the letter says.

“We found that blocking group lawsuits makes it nearly impossible for most consumers to get justice and relief for wrongdoing.”. »

North Korea accuses US of declaring war

Authored by bbc.co.uk

North Korea's foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country and said Pyongyang had the right to shoot down US bombers.

Mr Ri's remarks - not the first time that North Korea has used the phrase "a declaration of war" in relation to the US - are the latest in an increasingly angry war of words between the two countries.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Ri Yong-ho says Donald Trump "declared a war on our country". »