CMU working with Amazon Web Services, Infineon, Noika

Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab is working with Amazon Web Services, Infineon Technologies and Nokia Bell Labs to make more secure systems for the “internet of things.” Through the program, CyLab will develop a suite of hardware and software solutions to address scalability, speed, cost and other challenges in IoT.

Wall Street salaries highest since 2008 crisis, report finds

Salaries on Wall Street rose last year to their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis, according to a report by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. The report puts the average salary in New York City’s securities industry in 2017 at $422,500, a 13 percent increase over the year before.

Coca-Cola ‘closely watching’ cannabis in wellness drinks

The Coca-Cola Co. says that it’s “closely watching” the growth of the use of a non-psychoactive element of cannabis in wellness drinks. The statement came after reports that the beverage giant was in talks with a Canadian cannabis company to create a cannabidiol-infused beverage. CocaCola and Aurora Cannabis Inc. both declined to confirm the reports by BNN Bloomberg.

Governments boycotting Nike or considering it are mounting

A Rhode Island town is considering asking its departments to refrain from purchasing Nike products following the company’s decision to use former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in ads. The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island says the town could be held liable for violating the First Amendment. The mayor of a New Orleans suburb rescinded a similar directive based on an attorney’s advice. Mississippi’s public safety chief said over the weekend that state police