Jeff Trester, an economist and co-chief executive of price-comparison Web site PriceScan.com, said flat-screen TV price declines have accelerated in recent weeks. "People who are concerned about their jobs, their first instinct is not to go out and buy a TV," he said. ...
“We’ve seen how quickly variants can spread in our communities, especially during family gatherings.” He urged people to take precautions, such as wearing a mask in public, practicing social distancing, limiting travel and washing hands often. The reservation covers 27,000 ...
research indicates simply documenting and recording information consumes half a billion staff hours each year at a cost of more than $16 billion. 16 hiring more people would reduce the backlog and create more hours to devote to higher-impact activities, but it would do so at...
In 2021,Winter Storm Uri(link resides outside ibm.com) wreaked havoc on Texas, leaving over 4.5 million people without power and causing economic losses between USD 80 billion and USD 130 billion. As temperatures plummeted, power plants relying on various fuel types began to fail. It became ...
With Christmas just around the corner, shopping in the busy stores around town will likely be a love-hate relationship. . . . Still, millions of shoppers will fill their stockings this year from Internet displays in a multi-billion dollar flurry of e-commerce. If you'd like to jump in ...
On a recent sunny day13.000 chickens roam over Larry Brown's 40 windswept acres in Shiner Texas.Some rest in the shade of a parked car Others drink water with the cows. This all seems random,but it's by design, part of what the $6.1 billion US.egg industry bets will be its next ...
Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, making it the interstate that touches the most states. It was also the priciest interstate to build, costing $8 billion,according to the Federal Highway...
NAACP President Derrick Johnson said he is confident that Black voters will overwhelmingly break for Harris in the final days of the campaign. “What we’re finding is consistent with what we found in other elections: that the closer we get [to Election Day...
"Our products can do one billion cycles --that's 32.5 years if you switch it once every second," Miu said. "We avoided reliability issues that come with moving parts; we made something that has no friction." For accelerometers and other sensors, reliability problems are expected to be ...
"We're not going back to the days when you could pillage these kids for a billion dollars of profits," Murphy said in remarks following the landmark move Tuesday bythe Dartmouth men's basketball team to form a union. Anthony Adragna ...