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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ICO Popularity Soars Despite Advertising Bans and Tighter Regulation

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ICOs - Initial Coin Offerings were the hottest method to raise money in 2017. In total, $5.6 billion was raised through ICOs, from just...

4 Steps to Becoming Your Own Boss Before the End of the Year

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Somewhere in the world at this very moment, an ambitious person has made the big decision: to stop being the worker and start being...

These 7 New Museums Are Changing the World

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Museum attendance generates more than 13 billion dollars in revenue every year, in the United States alone. It's a big business, though the formula...

Indiana Postal Worker Charged with Theft after Mail Found in a Ravine

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An Indiana postal worker was charged with theft and official misconduct after allegedly paying a man to throw away 11,000 pieces of mail in...

Survey Names Top 15 States for Remote Workers

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Gallup reports that 43% of employees in the United States worked from home at least part of the time in 2016. The figure is...
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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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