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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Community Program Offers Free Plumbing Services in Twin Cities

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Residents in the Twin Cities welcome a new community program that offers free plumbing services to residents. Older residents, many who are widowed or...

Cozy Outdoor Spaces Top the List of Landscaping Trends in 2018

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Cozy is the hottest trend in landscaping this year. A report from Houzz found that 88% of homeowners who are renovating their outdoor spaces...

Dietary Supplements Can Help Joint Health, Research Shows

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About 20% of Americans are expected to have knee osteoarthritis by 2030, but new research shows that dietary changes and supplements may help with...

Bathroom Hand Dryers May Spread Bacteria, Study Finds

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Hand dryers are a staple in public bathrooms and are marketed as an eco-friendly way to dry hands. But the results of a new...

OWASP Top 21 Automated Threats to Web & APIs

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The pace at which online bots are taking up the internet, it is not a surprise that bot traffic constitutes more than 50% of...
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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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