Image: Aniruth/Adobe Stock Organizations of all sizes are increasingly generating and managing large amounts of data, but making sense of all that information can prove difficult. Business intelligence software assists companies in collecting, presenting and analyzing data in ways that help them better understand the information they collect and make better decisions as a result. … Read more
THE local petrochemical industry is seeking government protection through safeguard duties on imported resins used for the production of plastic goods. In a statement on Thursday, JG Summit Olefins Corp. (JGSOC) said that along with the local petrochemical industry, they are hoping that the government can protect and support Philippine manufacturers from “unfair foreign competition” … Read more
Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision/Getty Images The Education Data Initiative reports that US student debt totaled almost $1.75 trillion in 2021. This debt often impacts underserved racial minority students more. Yet there are ways to make college more affordable — like applying for scholarships. Almost half of Black graduates see their debt significantly increase within four years of … Read more
The Supreme Court has allowed the administration to use a higher estimate than Republican-led states want for calculating damages from gas emissions.
If they’re out there, they probably know we’re here. getty If intelligent extra-terrestrial civilizations evolve in a way similar to ours, then we should have little fear one might respond to receiving a signal from humans by invading Earth. That’s the argument put forth in a new paper from YouTuber Alberto Caballero. The paper is … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Thursday that nine people have the monkeypox virus in the U.S. “These cases were suspected by local clinicians. They were identified by local laboratories and triggered local public health action to help with treatment and management of any potential contacts,” said CDC director Rochelle Walensky at a … Read more
Broadcom Inc said on Thursday it will acquire cloud computing company VMware Inc in a $61 billion cash-and-stock deal, the chipmaker’s biggest and boldest bid to diversify its business into enterprise software. The acquisition is the second biggest announced globally so far this year, trailing only Microsoft Corp’s $68.7 billion … Read more
Research has found that survivors of school shootings need years to heal, and their recovery can cost them education and employment opportunities. The May 24 massacre of 19 fourth-graders and two adults at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, is the latest in an uptick of school shootings since December 2012, when a gunman stormed into … Read more
Stocks rose Thursday, as Wall Street rebounded from a long string of weekly declines. The Dow Jones Industrials rocketed 516.91 points, or 1.6%, to 32,637.19. The S&P 500 jumped 79.11 points, or 2%, to 4,057.84. The NASDAQ Composite popped 305.91 points, or 2.7%, to 11,740.65, helped by a surge in Dollar Tree shares. The tech-focused … Read more
Inside of hard disk drives are platters which hold all your data; these are all manufactured by one company in Japan called Showa Denko which has announced (opens in new tab) it expects to “realize near-line HDD having storage capacity of more than 30TB” by the end of 2023. Deciphering that statement, we’d assume it … Read more