Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, November 13th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Amazon's HQ2 officially lands in Queens and Crystal City.

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Well, our long national guessing game is over. Today Amazon announced its HQ2 picks.

It's actually opening two new headquarters locations.

One is, as guessed, in the Long Island City neighborhood in Queens.

That's a borough in New York City, of course,

for our international listeners.

And the other is in Arlington, Virginia.

Weirdly, in its blog post announcing the decision Amazon called this Virginia location

National Landing a neighborhood that didn't exist before today in a press release

Virginia officials explain that this new national landing place actually

encompasses the neighborhoods of Crystal City, Pentagon City, and Potomac Yard.

Symantics aside, that area is basically a suburb of Washington, D.C.

Amazon says the new headquarters locations will collectively create 50,000 new jobs split equally between the locations.

It promises to spend $5 dollars on the new locations.

It also announced a new operations center of excellence in Nashville, Tennessee,

devoted to managing customer fulfillment and supply chain operations.

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