As artificial intelligence becomes both more useful and more widespread, workers everywhere are becoming anxious about how a new age of automation might affect their career prospects. A recent study by Pew Research 10 advanced and emerging economies, most workers expect much more from the work currently done by humans within 50 years. Workers are obviously about the effects on …
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The planned sale of Sears Holdings Corp. to its chairman, Edward Lampert, is under fire from the U.S. Government's pension insurances over the $ 1.7 trillion funding gap that the agency has had to buy out the chain. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. filed papers Saturday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y., in opposition to Mr. Lampert's …
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Amid ongoing efforts by local officials to improve MetroLink policing, three Missouri state legislators are trying to attack crime on light rail from a different angle. weapons to protect themselves. The move is strongly opposed by Metro Transit officials, who would actually increase the risk to riders and police. The law would apply to buses and other public transportation across …
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Google has seen Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) eat away at its share of online product searches over the past few years, and that's bad Alphabet 's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) business Google has introduced new products and partnerships over the last few years to make it easier for online shoppers to find and purchase what they re looking for straight from …
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On Jan. 2, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) admitted that it was not able to hit its previously stated revenue guidance for the first quarter of its fiscal 2019, revising its revenue outlook down to $ 84 billion from a prior range of $ 89 billion to $ 93 billion. The shortfall, the company claims, is due to than-expected iPhone shipments, primarily …
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By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks advanced on Monday as Wall Street rallied after a deal was announced to reopen the U.S. climbed 0.2 percent. South Korea's KOSPI (.KS11) edged up 0.2 percent, New Zealand stocks while Japan's Nikkei (.N225) bucked the trends and eased 0.2 percent. Australian financial markets were closed for their 'Australia Day' holiday. President …
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MIAMI – A family wants answers after they were kicked off when passengers complained about their body odor. WPLG reported that Yossi Adler, his wife and their 19-month-old daughter were asked to leave shortly after boarding . It happened Wednesday night on an International Airlines flight to Detroit at Miami International Airport. "We stopped several people in the airport and …
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It took 162 years, but a city in Massachusetts will now have a merchant who can sell alcohol to people to go home. The town of Rockport was dry since 1865, reports Gloucester Daily Times. But last week, the city's board member voted to let Whistlestop Market become the city's only store to sell spirits. The store has the city's …
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Revenue-per-click, the business strategy that has informed digital publishers for years, was effectively pronounced DOA this week as leading players in a sector once viewed as the future of journalism-announced deep cuts. employees headlined "Difficult Changes", the BuzzFeed founder and chief executive, Jonah Peretti, said the company would reduce headcount by 15%, or about 250 jobs, to around 1,100 employees …
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Hundreds of National Grid crews died in Newport, which restored natural gas and closures. (WJAR) NEWPORT, RI – National Grid advances in Newport and Middletown. From Saturday afternoon, some National Grid natural gas customers have hot and hot water for the first time in almost six days. "I'm extremely happy, everything is normal for me," Timothy said. "It is great …
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