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Naked And A Little Afraid: Testing The Body-Scanning Mirror
Naked Labs’ body scanner does a great job creating a 3-D model of your nearly naked body, but just how far are you willing to let technology go? Despite being alone in my bathroom, I undress at YMCA-locker-room speeds. Down to just my bra and underwear, I tap the “scan”…
Retail Technology Provider Narvar Targeting The Costly Returns Process
Investment will back development of e-commerce software as retailers look to improve consumer online experience. Retail Technology Provider Narvar Targeting The Costly Returns Process Retail technology provider Narvar has raised $30 million in new funding to back what the company says will be aggressive expansion of a business that supports e-commerce…
Four Things That I Like About The Current State of Bitcoin (#GotBitcoin?)
(1.) Bitcoin Dominance Rate Hits 50% For First Time in 2018 Bitcoin (BTC) now makes up 50 percent of the entire cryptocurrency market capitalization. Four Things That I Like About The Current State of Bitcoin Shortly past 03:00 UTC on August 11, CoinMarketCap's bitcoin dominance rate – an indicator that tracks…
U.S. Companies Sit On A Mountain of Debt (#GotBitcoin?)
Total Debt For US Corporations Tops $6 Trillion The riskiest borrowers are more leveraged than they were even during the financial crisis, according to S&P's analysis, which looked at 2017 year-end balance sheets for non-financial corporations. U.S. Companies Sit On A Mountain of Debt On first glance, total debt has risen…
Lenders Shunned Risky Personal Loans. Now They’re Competing For Them (#GotBitcoin)
Lenders are stepping up offers of consumer loans with few strings attached, often to individuals with poor credit histories they all but ignored in the years after the financial crisis. Lenders Shunned Risky Personal Loans. Now They’re Competing For Them The offers promise a way to help pay down other debts…
PG&E Identified As Utility That Lost Control of Confidential Information
As a result of 2016 failure, 30,000 records about PG&E’s cyber assets were exposed on the internet. PG&E Identified As Utility That Lost Control of Confidential Information San Francisco-based PG&E Corp. was identified Friday as the large utility that authorities had fined in May for losing control of a database with…
Trump, “They’re Flipping Like Professional Gymnasts”
Allen Weisselberg, Longtime Trump Organization CFO, Testified and Was Granted Immunity in Cohen Probe. Trump, “They’re Flipping Like Professional Gymnasts” Accountant is third longtime confidant of Mr. Trump known to have provided information in hush-money investigation that has implicated the president. President Trump’s financial gatekeeper was granted immunity by federal authorities…
What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know, and That’s a Problem
The price we pay for health care often has little connection to what it actually costs. One hospital decided to investigate. What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know, and That’s a Problem For nearly a decade, Gundersen Health System’s hospital in La Crosse, Wis., boosted the price of knee-replacement surgery an…
Why You Should Back-up Your Facebook, Google And Twitter Data Regularly
Facebook keeps a treasure trove of information on you, which goes all the way back to when you first started to use the social network. Why You Should Back-up Your Facebook, Google And Twitter Data Regularly How To Download A Copy of Everything Facebook Knows About You * You can download…
Freddie Mac Joins Rental-Home Boom
Freddie Mac is expanding its role in financing one of Wall Street’s postcrisis success stories: the booming business of investing in single-family rental houses. Freddie Mac Joins Rental-Home Boom Freddie Mac is expanding its role in financing one of Wall Street’s postcrisis success stories: the booming business of investing in single-family…
No Cats, No Sleepovers: Boomers Become Housemates
Living with housemates is challenging—and it doesn’t get easier with age; ‘not in my house.’ ‘People of Similiar Sensibilities Sharing Living Quarters’ Rika Mead got divorced a few years back, but didn’t want to give up the dream home she’d bought outside Denver. So she forged a solution she hadn’t…
This Training Tweak Keeps Him Running At 70
A distance runner uses what he calls the Old Fartlek, a jokey variation on a classic Swedish technique, to go easier on his joints and muscles. This Training Tweak Keeps Him Running At 70 Drop the term “fartlek” into a conversation and you’ll know if someone’s a serious runner, Jim…