Melissa Thompson

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Melissa Thompson writes about a wide range of topics, revealing interesting things we didn't know before. She is a freelance USA Today producer, and a Technorati contributor.

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5 Packing Tips That Can Make Moving Easier

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The average person will move about 11 times in their life. Whether they are moving to for a new job or simply to get...

Thieves Target Catalytic Converters in a String of Robberies

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Thieves are focusing on auto thefts in a new string of catalytic converter thefts. Homeowners have been reportedly confronting the thieves that have been...

Doctors Link Blood Pressure to Signs of Alzheimer’s and Brain Lesions

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A study published last month shows a link between high blood pressure and areas of dead tissue in the brain. The study found that...

Sony’s 3-Player Virtual Air Hockey Table Demonstrates the Power of AR

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Sony's exhibit at SXSW, labeled the Wow Factory, showcased a series of games, gadgets and prototypes, including a 3-player virtual air hockey table that...

Tragedy In Virginia: Preventable Crib Death

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There is an axiom that says no parent ever wants to bury a child. A child is supposed to outlive his or her parents -...
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The Debt Collector’s AI Voice Agent: How Synthetic-Voice Dunning Calls Are Colliding With Decades-Old Consumer Protection Rules

Technology
Most consumers assume the friendly voice on a collection call belongs to a person following a script. It is often a script following a person. A synthetic voice, cloned or generated by an AI agent, working a call list on behalf of a collect

The Black Box in the Crossover: What Vehicle Event Data Recorders Capture in the Seconds Before a Fatal Pedestrian Crash

Legal
A pedestrian killed by a crossover has, on average, about 20 seconds of the driver's inputs sitting inside the car that hit them. Throttle position. Brake pressure. Steering angle. Whether the seat belt was buckled and whether stability con

When the CFO Leaves: How Growing Companies Keep the Books on Track

Business
Most owners assume a CFO exit is mainly an HR headache. Post the job, run the search, backfill the seat. The seat is the easy part. What breaks first is the reporting cadence: the month-end close nobody owns, the covenant calculation that u

Frontline Supervisors Are Sinking Your Safety Program. Here’s the Fix

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A single recordable injury can cost an employer tens of thousands of dollars before the lost-productivity ripple even begins, and most of those incidents trace back to a decision a frontline supervisor made, missed, or waved through, rather than to anything the safety director or the C-suite did or failed to do. The shift lead, […]
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