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Blackouts in Texas as Big Freeze Upends Energy Markets
(Bloomberg) — Texas began rolling power blackouts for millions of households for the first time in a decade as an unprecedented Arctic freeze wrought chaos in U.S. energy markets. The operator of the state’s power grid ordered network operators to reduce strain on the system as people crank up heaters to try and keep warm. …
Accenture Retrains Its Workers as Technology Upends Their Jobs
Five months after Dorian Twiggs packed up her life in Detroit and moved to Charlotte, N.C., to work as a mortgage underwriter for Accenture ACN -0.51% PLC, a manager pulled her and some colleagues into an office and told them their jobs were disappearing. Instead of getting laid off, they would be retrained for software …
