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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Taxes on Disability Payments for Veterans

Many members of our armed services that have gone to foreign wars such as Afghanistan or Iraq ended up injured. Some of these injuries...

Freak Tire Accident Kills NYPD Employee

As reported on ABC News, an accident on August 1st fatally injured a civilian employee of the New York City Police Department on a...

Kardashian Slapped with Costly Trademark Infringement Lawsuit

Soon after launching a new fragrance line as part of her KKK Beauty, famed reality tv star, Kim Kardashian West is already facing a...

Apple’s 2018 MacBook Logic Board Failure May Render Data Recovery Impossible

Apple's 2018 MacBook may not be able to have data recovered if the unit's logic board fails. Apple has long been known to make...

SeniorAdvice Creates a List of the Top 15 Cities for Single Seniors

Retirement can be an exciting time in a person's lifetime and it's even more fun if you have some companionship and a partner to...

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How Buy Now, Pay Later Debt Changes Your Bankruptcy Decisions

Does buy now, pay later debt count when you're deciding whether to file for bankruptcy? More and more, yes, even when the balance never touched your credit report. Split-pay loans from apps like Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, and Zip have become

The Debt Collector’s AI Voice Agent: How Synthetic-Voice Dunning Calls Are Colliding With Decades-Old Consumer Protection Rules

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

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

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
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