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Janet Yellen is poised to become Treasury secretary in a Biden cabinet — and here’s what that means for cash-strapped American families
In 2014, three months into her four-year tenure leading the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen was trying to draw an important link for investors, policy makers and community development leaders. “Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street. By keeping interest rates low, we are trying to make …
Huge rise in hacking attacks on home workers during lockdown | Technology
Hackers have launched a wave of cyber-attacks trying to exploit British people working from home, as the coronavirus lockdown forces people to use often unfamiliar computer systems. The proportion of attacks targeting home workers increased from 12% of malicious email traffic before the UK’s lockdown began in March to more than 60% six weeks later, …
myDevices Introduces No Dead Zone™ Panic Button Technology
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan 28, 2020– In 2018, the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) announced a new workplace safety initiative designed to provide emergency communications and location-based services for employees in the hospitality industry. Backed by major hotels – including Marriott International, InterContinental, Hilton, and Hyatt – the 5-Star Promise has committed to providing panic …
The Agenda: CofC mumps cases jump to 43, Breaking: S.C. has bad roads
Friday, November 15, 2019 The Agenda: CofC mumps cases jump to 43, Breaking: S.C. has bad roads Rain is here to stay Posted by Lauren Hurlock on Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:11 AM click to enlarge …
Beck’s brewer AB InBev replaces paper labels with ‘tattoos’ on bottles to cut waste
The world’s largest brewer is doing away with the paper labels that have adorned some of its beer bottles for decades in favor of imprinting branding on 200,000 bottles themselves, MarketWatch can reveal. AB InBev, the maker of Beck’s ABI, +0.58% …
At the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, we can thank NASA for memory foam, pet odor filters — and GPS on your iPhone
Decades of innovations from the study of outer space have come down to Earth, into store aisles, smartphones and American households. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon declaring, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The NASA program that got Armstrong there pushed forward technology on …
