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In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Microsoft founder Bill Gates dropped a few tech tidbits, including that Microsoft "was willing to buy" WhatsApp. He's also no Edward Snowden fan (no surprise).

In the second installment of this three-part series, I am going to discuss a few of the more common external locking mechanisms used in conjunction with roll-down security gates. When a business owner ...

The metal roll-down gate on storefronts, part of New York City's landscape for decades, will be officially phased out starting Friday, when a law takes effect that requires new gates to be partially ...

Local businesses gave a thumbs up to recently passed city legislation that would gradually ban the use of roll-down metal security gates on shops to cut down on high rates of graffiti. Other kinds of ...

With the city's roll-down gates just acting as metal canvas for those with spray cans, they're being phased out... but not without a final farewell. The New Museum has teamed up with artists, as well ...

As the sun sets on H Street NE, Anwar Saleem watches the shopkeepers slam shut their roll-down security gates. Their distinctive, thunderous rumble is part of the urban soundtrack every evening in ...

First there was cigarette smoke. Then there were sugary foods. And now the city council is zeroing in on a new target it deems to be a blight worthy of extinction: roll-down storefront gates. The ...