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Today In Data: Challenges And Advancements In Smart Technology

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In pet technology news, Pawscout is helping owners find their wayward pets with a Bluetooth-enabled tag as pet retail becomes a fierce battleground. 99 percent: Reported inventory accuracy rate of Outdoor Voices. All this, Today In Data. 1,000: Number of different clothing items Nuuly will reportedly stock at launch.

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Ghana To Adopt West African ‘Eco’ Currency

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Ghana is looking to drop its currency, the cedi, to join the new West African currency called “eco,” anticipated to replace the CFA franc as early as 2020, Reuters reported. Ghana is against tying the eco to the euro, and wants regional authorities to be quick about “adopting a flexible exchange rate regime,” the statement said.

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Links 1/1/2023 | naked capitalism

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We have mixed messaging, lethally bad advice on airborne tranmission, confusing guidance, a broken website, with an inexplicable hash-tag to wrap it all up. Kim calls for ‘exponential increase’ of N. Ukraine War: Biden’s Rating Improves Rasmussen Reports. 4] Great, back to “personal risk assessment.”. [5] 6] Yeah, what about it?

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Apple’s New Services, Products Prompt Shares Upgrade

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Apple shares got a boost on Thursday (March 21) after Wall Street investment firm Needham raised its rating from “buy” to “strong buy.” ” According to a report from CNBC , Needham said it raised its rating on the Cupertino, California iPhone maker due to the value it sees in Apple’s ecosystem.

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Visa On Bringing More Female Founders Into The Reinvention Of Retail

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times the rate of their male counterparts. The Fashion Week event also presented a perfect opportunity to roll out the latest She’s Next, Empowered by Visa challenge, with a call to female-led firms to “look for ways to bring technology to retail that [will help drive] fashion as an industry,” Reilly said.

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Will A Second Round Of Stimulus Checks Happen, And Who Will Get Money If It Does?

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House Democrats sought to answer that question in the affirmative, passing at a $3 trillion relief package called the HEROES Act (formally the ‘‘Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions” Act). Others have called the bill a Democratic Party wish list that’s at best only tangentially connected to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Amazon’s Alexa Gets A New Set Of Speaking Skills To Sound More Human

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Amazon announced that Alexa is going to sound more human, with a new set of speaking skills that allow her to do things like whisper, take a breath to pause for emphasis, adjust the rate, pitch and volume of her speech, “bleep” out her words and more. Some already available in the U.S. include “abracadabra!

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