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Lenders Share Their Underwriting Secrets With Credit Karma (#GotBitcoin?)
Credit-card and personal-loan issuers hope the move will bring new customers amid signs of consumer-debt slowdown. Lenders Share Their Underwriting Secrets With Credit Karma Some of the biggest U.S. lenders, eager to bring in more borrowers and extend a yearslong expansion in consumer credit, are handing over the keys to their…
Hospitals Provide Patients With Kale And Spinach Along With Their Prescriptions (#GotBitcoin?)
Much of the produce grown at the farm atop Eskenazi Health’s flagship hospital in Indianapolis goes to patients. Take Two Aspirin—And A Serving of Kale Wielding food as medicine, hospitals are focusing on nutrition, sending patients home with prescriptions as well as bags of good food. Hospitals Provide Patients With Kale…
Can Bitcoin Become a Dominant (Reserve) Currency?
Proponents says there’s a consumer need for an alternative currency, while detractors say cryptocurrencies will remain in the hands of mostly speculators. Can Bitcoin Become a Dominant (Reserve) Currency? Bitcoin turns 10 at the end of the month. And over the past decade, there has been no shortage of headlines about…
The Key To Being Safer Online Is Actually A Key (#GotBitcoin?)
The best way to protect yourself against hackers and phishers is to turn on two-factor authentication—then get a YubiKey or Google Titan Key. The Key To Being Safer Online Is Actually A Key Google, Yubico and others offer security keys for different devices and ports, but they all work basically the…
New Spy Service Shows You Unsecured Webcams And Baby-Cams, Etc. (#GotBitcoin?)
Shodan has made it even easier for our inner voyeur to spy upon the open webcams of homes across the world -- but are the ramifications more pronounced than idle surveillance? New Spy Service Shows You Unsecured Webcams And Baby-Cams, Etc. Launched in 2013, Shodan is a search engine used to…
World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places (#GotBitcoin)
These places have all the visual splendor and historic appeal of the world’s most famous monuments. World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places. World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places (#GotBitcoin)Forget Machu Picchu: Eight Newly Accessible Wonders of the World: Newly-Discovered Places 1. The African Country of Gabon2.…
What A Recession Could Mean for Women’s Unemployment (#GotBitcoin?)
How would female job hunters fare in the next recession? Likely better than men, if history is any indication. What A Recession Could Mean for Women’s Unemployment While the unemployment rate for women has moved in tandem with that of men since the 1980s, there is one notable exception—during recessions. When…
China Acknowledges Re-Education Centers for Uighurs (#GotBitcoin?)
China has retroactively changed the law to legitimize its detention of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uighurs amid an international outcry over human rights abuses against the ethnic minority. China Acknowledges Re-Education Centers for Uighurs (#GotBitcoin?) China has retroactively changed the law to legitimize its detention of hundreds of…
Hundreds of Police Killings Go Undocumented By Law Enforcement And FBI (#GotBitcoin)
When 24-year-old Albert Jermaine Payton wielded a knife in front of the police in this city’s southeast corner, officers opened fire and killed him. Hundreds of Police Killings Go Undocumented By Law Enforcement And FBI (#GotBitcoin) Yet according to national statistics intended to track police killings, Mr. Payton’s death in…
The FBI’s Crime Data: What Happens When States Don’t Fully Report (#GotBitcoin?)
Bureau’s decades-old method to account for missing data could use an upgrade, some experts say. The FBI’s Crime Data: What Happens When States Don’t Fully Report In any given year, more than 18,000 U.S. police agencies are asked to submit crime data to the FBI. But some don’t provide complete information…
New York Attorney General’s Probe Into Fake FCC Comments Deepens (#GotBitcoin)
Advocacy groups subpoenaed over comments posted to FCC from people who deny they made them. New York Attorney General’s Probe Into Fake FCC Comments Deepens (#GotBitcoin) The New York attorney general’s office has subpoenaed more than a dozen advocacy groups, lobbying firms and consultants as part of an investigation of…
Advertisers Allege Facebook Failed to Disclose Key Metric Error For More Than A Year (#GotBitcoin?)
Facebook knew of problems with how it measured viewership of video ads for more than a year before it revealed them in 2016, according to a complaint filed by advertisers. Advertisers Allege Facebook Failed to Disclose Key Metric Error For More Than A Year (#GotBitcoin?) The filing followed…