Businesses oriented in course of staycations and domestic travel have benefited during this difficult time, such as online house-rental businesses, as personal transport is changing into much more popular. Those who’re operationally versatile and adaptable will win. Nonetheless, the place organizations can weather the storm, those in the hospitality business […]
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Wading into the World of Online Dating in China
The Mandarin term shengnu literally means “leftover woman.” It was coined to describe China’s growing crop of middle-class women who, thanks to new educational and economic opportunities, have been able to rise to unprecedented ranks within Chinese society—at the expense of their love lives. Nearing (or, heaven forbid, passing) the […]
Sustaining your cloud technology in a virtual world
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Martin Marchetti, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Greg Ruebusch, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP With the onset of COVID-19, technology and business leaders have been faced with unforeseen operational, technical, and workforce challenges that have negatively impacted their ability to provide the same level […]
An unhealthy relationship with technology can mean missed opportunities to connect with the real world. That’s why I wrote a book of 5,203 alternatives to looking at your phone.
© Johner Images/Getty Images Johner Images/Getty Images Barbara Ann Kipfer is a lexicographer, archaeologist, and author of more than 80 books and calendars, including “14,000 Things to be Happy About.” The following is an adapted excerpt from her new book, “5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone.” […]
Internet users across the world report problems accessing websites
Internet users across the world have reported connection problems in what seems to be a major global outage. Website Down Detector, which tracks the status of websites, reveals a spike in outages across several sites and online services – including eBay, Twitter, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Generally speaking, the […]
World powers clash, virus stirs anger at virtual UN meeting
U.S President Donald Trump is seen on a video screen remotely addressing the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at U.N. headquarters. This year’s annual gathering of world leaders at U.N. headquarters will be almost entirely “virtual.” Leaders have been asked to pre-record their […]
Why the World May Never Truly Be Rid of Dongles
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. As you may guess from the stuff I write about, I have a lot of computers, of various shapes, sizes, and functions. Some of them I only mess with occasionally; […]
Slow internet plagues regional artists, as art world moves online during COVID-19 lockdown
When COVID-19 altered the known landscape, regional artists found themselves in uncharted territory that required some seriously creative navigating. Suddenly, every gallery, music venue and dance studio was closed, and every writers’ festival was cancelled or postponed. Artists of all ilks were unable to collaborate with their peers, network professionally, […]
Asian shares mixed after technology fall leads US stock fall | World
The latest gyrations on Wall Street followed a wild stretch where the S&P 500 careened from its worst three-day slump since June to its best day in nearly three months. The selling came as the odds lengthen that Congress will deliver more aid to the economy before November’s elections, support […]
Estimating change the right way: Approaching the post-pandemic world
Jeff Bezos was on stage at a press event, when a reporter asked him, “Jeff, what do you think is going to change most in the next 10 years?” Jeff replied, “That’s a good question. But a better question is: What’s not going to change in the next 10–20 years?” […]
Leader board mirrors top of world rankings and other takeaways from Day 1 of Tour Championship | Golf World
The first day of the last week of the season is finished. Sure, this may not exactly feel like a grand finale, with no fans at East Lake and a U.S. Open looming less than two weeks away. But it’s the Tour Championship all the same, and with the FedEx […]
World No. 1, defending champ Jin Young Ko not in ANA Inspiration field | Golf World
Jin Young Ko ascended to World No. 1 with her win at last year’s ANA Inspiration. She will lose one of those titles next week. Ko is not among the 105 players listed for the LPGA major at Mission Hills Country Club. Ko has not played since the LPGA’s season-ending […]
Man’s ‘unsettling’ food video leaves TikTok dumbfounded: ‘What in the world?’
Some videos are just so unbelievable, they really can’t come with an explanation. TikTok user Liam Donafee didn’t offer one. When he shared his now-viral video on Aug. 2, he left out a caption, or any words explaining what his clip meant. READ MORE: Thousands of Amazon reviews rave about these […]
The dead zone: Rockingham County, long devoid of internet service, might join the wired world | Local News
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY — The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a sharp spotlight on the issue of rural, broadband dead zones that have long handicapped residents of Rockingham County. In a unique time when work, education and life have quickly shifted to the virtual world, universal access to reliable internet is more important […]
New Horizons Computer Learning Centers Named One of Top 30 Learning Providers in the World
Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. https://apnews.com/PR%2520Newswire/b8966432d3921dccb7a3350b2c2f4a1d Click to copy TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, the largest independent provider of career and technology training, today announced it was named to the prestigious Top […]
Researchers set a world record for Internet speed
Researcher Dr. Lidia Galdino has worked with two other companies, including Xtera and KDDI Research, to set a world record for Internet data transmission rate. The researchers were able to achieve a data transmission rate of 178 terabits per second, which works out to 178,000 megabits a second. To put […]
Gaza’s MCA rapper: An 11-year-old’s message to the world | News
For Abdulrahman al-Shantti, becoming an internet sensation feels “really good” because it allows him to spread his message of what growing up in the Gaza Strip is like. “I want to tell the outside world how the Palestinians live in Gaza and how we as children are supposed to live […]
178 terabits per second is the new world record for internet speed
Hand drawn capture globe by Shutterstock Imagine being able to download the entire Netflix library, as it stands, in less than a second. This is far from being commercially available any time soon, but the record for the fastest internet speed in the world is now set at 178 terabits […]
World Acceptance Corporation Announces First Quarter 2021 Conference Call On The Internet
World Acceptance Corporation Announces First Quarter 2021 Conference Call On The Internet World Acceptance Corporation Announces First Quarter 2021 Conference Call On The Internet PR Newswire GREENVILLE, S.C., July 23, 2020 GREENVILLE, S.C., July 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — World Acceptance Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLD) will provide an online, real-time webcast and […]
Six Ways To Create Meaningful Touch Points In A No-Touch World
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President and CEO, Sauce Labs getty In a matter of months, we’ve shifted from a high-touch economy to a low-touch economy, and, in the case of physical interactions, we’ve also shifted to a no-touch economy. As it becomes increasingly clear that many of the behavioral changes accelerated by the pandemic will […]