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Free Smart Thermostats Available in B.C. to Help Residents Lower Energy Bills

BC Hydro has launched the latest part of its Power Smart 2.0 plan. Unveiled earlier this year, BC Hydro’s Power Smart 2.0 plan is a $1-billion, three-year investment designed to help people save energy and lower bills. Effective immediately, people throughout...

You blame Visa and Mastercard for the swipe fee, but they keep almost none of it — the fat cut, called interchange, flows straight...

When a Visa-branded card taps a terminal at a Manhattan bodega and the customer walks out with a $4 coffee, roughly 10 cents of the transaction disappears into the payment machinery. The merchant sees Visa’s logo, blames Visa for...

A Historic Quilcene Farm Finds Its Rhythm

Like a speakeasy, The Quilcene Lantern is hidden in plain sight.  To get there one must traverse some of our state’s most iconic majesties: the Olympic Mountains, the Washington State ferries, (and the tater tots onboard), the Hood Canal Bridge,...

Psychology says people who struggle in classrooms but excel at reading a room, fixing an engine, or sensing what someone needs aren’t slow learners,...

There’s a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off. Slow. It shows up in report cards, in that lowered voice at parent evening, in the little sigh a teacher lets out before...

The hidden ‘interchange’ fee tucked into every card swipe now costs U.S. merchants around $111 billion a year — roughly four times what it...

Every time a shopper taps a Visa or Mastercard at a checkout counter in the United States, a small percentage of that swipe peels off before the merchant ever sees the money. It is called interchange, and in 2024...

China’s AI boom isn’t producing the next Jack Ma — it’s producing a generation of one-person businesses running on generative agents, and Silicon Valley...

In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video...

Hacking, blackmail and deception: Australian government minister sounds alarm on AI as new safety institute takes a closer look

The artificial intelligence technology of a company wanting to massively expand in Australia is one of several hacking, blackmailing and deceiving its creators. Technology Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton issued a warning at the AI Safety Forum in Sydney on Tuesday,...

Why Telstra’s network outage took trains off the rails – along with everything else

But mobile phones weren’t the only thing knocked out of action. Some EFTPOS payment services, taxi payment systems, electric vehicle charging platform Chargefox, and public transport ticketing in Canberra were all affected. There have been conflicting reports over whether Triple...

How hospitals are using the arts to help patients recover

As the impact of art on better health outcomes is being studied more and more, some hospital systems are now focusing on even the youngest of patients. Special correspondent Mike Cerre took a look at one approach for all...

News Wrap: Attempt to collect election worker info rejected

In our news wrap Tuesday, a federal judge rejected the Trump administration's attempt to collect the names and contact information of Fulton County, Georgia, election workers, New York City officials warned a high-rise is at risk of collapsing and...

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Virginia declined to buy Mount Vernon and Congress argued it was not the federal government’s business, so in 1858 a South Carolina woman raised...

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