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Former electrical engineer Bruce Campbell calls a retired Boeing 727 home. Located in a forest near Portland, Oregon, the impressive converted aircraft from the 1960s is one of the coolest fixer-upper houses we've ever seen...

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Companies that were launched to build semiconductors in China, including startups HSMC and QXIC, have failed despite hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and government support. Officials are sorting through the wreckage to see what went wrong.

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