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Formula One drivers use virtual reality to simulate a race, Walmart (WMT) employees don the headsets to prepare for unruly customers, and Bank of America (BAC) workers practice sensitive financial conversations on the devices. But as a labor shortage stifles companies struggling to make hires in the first place, some firms have turned to virtual reality for help attracting and retaining new employees who may never set foot in the office. Julie Sweet, CEO of the Ireland-based consulting giant… Source link

Thousands with student loan debt are owed refunds — see if you qualify The very first COVID-19 relief bill, signed into law in March of last year, barred student loan companies from garnishing the wages of borrowers in default. But thousands still had some of their pay seized in spite of the moratorium, because of the government’s slow uptake in those early days of the pandemic. Well over a year later, nearly 11,000 of those borrowers are still owed refunds, according to information obtained… Source link

What you don’t know about Social Security could cost you tens of thousands of dollars in retirement income, a new survey found. “What is overlooked is just the very basic fundamentals, which are Social Security and retirement age,” Christian Worstell, content writer for HelpAdvisor.com and report author, told Yahoo Money. “There’s a lack of awareness around it.” Six out of 10 seniors agree that the Social Security program is “difficult to understand and confusing,” while only 12%… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Just weeks after President Joe Biden implored Vladimir Putin to curb cyber crime, a notorious, Russia-linked ransomware gang has been accused of pulling off an audacious attack on the global software supply chain. REvil, the group blamed for the May 30 ransomware attack of meatpacking giant JBS SA, is believed to be behind hacks on at least 20 managed-service providers, which provide IT services to small- and medium-sized businesses. More than 1,000 businesses have already been… Source link

Rep. Lauren Boebert on the House steps of the Capitol on Monday, January 4, 2021. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Rep. Lauren Boebert falsely claimed Texas hasn’t recorded a single COVID-19 death in two months. “Since removing the mask mandate …Texas has not reported a single COVID death,” she claimed. Data shows 3,600 Texans lost their lives to the virus since March 2, the day restrictions were lifted. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado… Source link

Google’s 210 N. Carpenter St. Office in Chicago. | Photo: Google Google isn’t just one of the largest tech companies in the Bay Area, it’s one of the world’s largest companies in general. But that’s not stopping it from getting even bigger. On Thursday, Google announced its major U.S. expansion plans for the year of 2021. This involves investing more than $7 billion into its offices and data centers across 19 states. It’s also planning to create at least 10,000 new… Source link

(Bloomberg) — A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools. Companies whose footage was exposed include carmaker Tesla Inc. and software provider Cloudflare Inc. In addition, hackers were able to view video from inside women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals and the offices… Source link

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said Thursday that his electric vehicle firm and Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) were the only American carmakers not to have gone bankrupt out of the thousands of startups operating in the industry. What Happened: Musk reasoned on Twitter that while “prototypes are easy, production is hard [and] being cash flow positive is excruciating.” The entrepreneur also reacted to Twitter users who posted on the rivalry between the two companies’ trucks. Why It… Source link

Employees from Google and other organizations are asking Google for answers about how it handled the departure of renown researcher Timnit Gebru in an online petition that had more than 2,000 signatures as of Friday afternoon. Gebru, a well-known artificial intelligence researcher, technical co-lead of Google’s “Ethical AI” team and vocal critic of tech companies’ treatment of Black workers, tweeted Wednesday night that her corporate account had been abruptly shut off after she discussed… Source link

TipRanks Analysts Say These 3 Stocks Are Their Top Picks for 2021 The year is winding down, and it’s time for Wall Street’s analysts to start flagging their top picks for the coming year. It’s a time-honored tradition, in most walks of life, to take a sometimes tongue-in-cheek look at what lies ahead, and to start giving advice on the say-so of a metaphorical crystal ball.Analysts have been analyzing each stock carefully, looking at its past and current performance, its trends on a… Source link