Wells Fargo, the third-biggest U.S. bank, plans to lower its employee headcount by 5 percent to 10 percent in the next three years as part of its ongoing turnaround plan, the company announced Thursday. The bank has 265,000 employees, meaning the reduction would result in a loss of between 13,250 and 26,500 jobs. "We are... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/yIml_irAH-4 President Donald Trump's boast about his administration's accomplishments provoked chuckles from an audience at the United Nations on Tuesday. Trump, in his second address before the U.N. General Assembly in New York, bragged that his administration "has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country." It's a line of rhetoric... Continue Reading →
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-jellyfish-patrol-coral-reefs/ Could schools of robot jellyfish soon be patrolling the world’s oceans, monitoring fragile environments such as coral reefs? That’s the dream of U.S. researchers, comprising of scientists from Florida Atlantic University and the U.S. Office of Naval Research. They have developed a nature-inspired soft underwater robot, capable of some impressive underwater locomotion — including... Continue Reading →
On August 31st, California lawmakers voted to ban middle schools and high schools from starting before 8:30 a.m. The goal? Getting students to sleep in. According to the Associated Press (AP), the bill, known as SB328, was narrowly passed by the state legislature ahead of a midnight deadline and is expected to be signed into... Continue Reading →
At the Union of Concerned Scientists, we have long advocated agricultural systems that are productive and better for the environment, the economy, farmers, farmworkers and eaters than the dominant industrial system. We refer to such a system as our Healthy Farm vision. Based on comprehensive science, we have specified that healthy farm systems must be... Continue Reading →
In less than a decade, most workplace tasks will be done by machines rather than humans, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest AI job forecast. Job swap: The Future of Jobs 2018 report claims that roughly 71 percent of tasks are done by humans today, but it calls for a rapid shift in responsibilities over the next... Continue Reading →
A sustainable agricultural operation is vital to society. It not only provides a food source, but it also plays a pivotal role in the economy. But there are downsides to the current farming methods. For example, 70% of the world's freshwater supply is used in agriculture, and, even more alarmingly, agriculture is one of the... Continue Reading →
Some might argue the most humane thing to do with a lobster would be to just not eat it. A restaurant in the US, however, is taking another approach to being merciful: It gets the crustaceans stoned before steaming them alive. "The animal is already going to be killed," Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte's Legendary... Continue Reading →
Winter is coming, logistics world. Last week brought the news that Amazon.com Inc. had ordered 20,000 delivery vans from Mercedes-Benz. CNN reports that this deal is a big leap from the Seattle-based e-commerce company's first order of 5,000 vans. Amazon will lease these to third-party partners, who will operate them for last-mile delivery — basically,... Continue Reading →
Disgusted by the gross misuse of resources, concerned citizen and self-described patriot Andrew Beardsley voiced his anger Thursday concerning the thousands of refugee children currently occupying prison cells that could be used to incarcerate real Americans. “It makes me sick to think of these freeloading kids coming here by the thousands, living in 10-by-10 cells... Continue Reading →
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