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New Research Explains How POS Technology Can Help Restaurants Eliminate Costly Theft

10Jun

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Business

New Research Explains How POS Technology Can Help Restaurants Eliminate Costly Theft

Could better Point of Sale (POS) technology help your restaurant stay on top of employee theft? According to a new survey, it could be. Previously, National Restaurant Association research has indicated that restaurants and other food service operators experience unusually high levels of internal employee theft. According to a paper titled "Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology Monitoring on Employee Theft and Productivity" published by professors at MIT, Brigham Young University, and Washington University, POS technology could potentially solve this industry-wide problem. Their study, using restaurant guard technology that monitors employee interactions with POS systems, found that not only were losses reversed, but restaurants actually experienced greater profit beyond...

Woman Wolf Two Massive Steak Dinners, Shatters Eating Challenge Record

9Jun

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Lifestyle

Woman Wolf Two Massive Steak Dinners, Shatters Eating Challenge Record

At 5-foot-7 and 125 pounds, Molly Schuyler looks like the kind of woman who mainly eats her kids' leftovers and a salad a day, which is precisely what her diet looks like most days. Appearances can be deceiving though, as Schuyler proved last week when she devoured a shrimp cocktail, baked potato, roll, salad, and a 72-ounce steak in under five minutes. What's most impressive though is the fact that she had room for dessert, which just so happened to be the exact same meal again, wolfing it in nine minutes the second time around. “We witnessed history,” said Danny Lee, co-owner of the The Big Texan Steak Ranch where Schuyler feaster. “If there’s a zombie apocalypse, I want to stay away from this girl.” The challenge actually dares contests to only eat one of the feasts in under an ho...

Researchers Discover That Lasers Can be Used to Generate New Tooth Growth

9Jun

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Business

Researchers Discover That Lasers Can be Used to Generate New Tooth Growth

In a groundbreaking study published this week in Science Translational Medicine, researchers say that a low-powered laser could be the key to creating new tooth growth. In the lab, the Harvard-led team were able to use lasers to "turn on" a natural healing cycle, which caused dentin to regrow inside teeth. This technology could allow a cavity to essentially "fill itself" back in with healhy tooth tissue, or enable a broken tooth to regrow again.Although the technology has only been tested on rats so far, it is possible that human clinical trials could begin within the year. "There's potential for this to be broadly useful," says David Mooney, the paper's senior author and a Harvard University bioengineer. If the approach works, the implications stretch beyond just avoiding the “drilling an...

Across the U.S., People Learning to Live in Better Harmony With Bees

6Jun

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Lifestyle

Across the U.S., People Learning to Live in Better Harmony With Bees

It's bee season, and many people are taking a kinder approach to the way they interact with nature's yellow and black pollinator. This week, the NYPD responded to a four-pound bee swarm found in the Upper West Side. The responders captured the swarm, estimated to be composed of up to 20,000 bees, in a box and transported them safely to a more rural location.The move was a positive one for the hive, since it involved both the new queen and most of her loyal drones. Earlier this month in Delaware, several hundred honey bee hives were in danger when a truck carrying them was overturned while on the freeway. The hives were en route from Florida to Maine when the truck crashed into a guardrail, resulting in the loss of at least 10 million bees. The accident shut down the roads for almost 13 ...

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Wed; Kim and Family Wow With Millions’ Worth of Jewelry

6Jun

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Lifestyle

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Wed; Kim and Family Wow With Millions’ Worth of Jewelry

"Kim Kardashian and her family were decked out in 'millions of dollars' worth' of jewelry this weekend by Lorraine Schwartz, a friend of the family and the bling expert who provided Kim's eye-popping 15-carat engagement and the diamond-encircled wedding bands she and husband Kanye West slipped on each other's fingers on Saturday," E! Online reports. Unsurprisingly, sources report that the newly weds' wedding bands were similarly lavish. "West received a handmade gold band, while Kardashian now wears a handmade diamond band, which complemented her own diamond studs and her massive Lorraine Schwartz diamond engagement ring," People magazine reveals. Schwartz also designed West's gold wedding band. The famous couple exchanged rings during an outdoor ceremony at Forte di Belvedere in Floren...

Atlanta’s High Museum of Art Launches New Art Exhibit for Concept Cars

6Jun

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Local

Atlanta’s High Museum of Art Launches New Art Exhibit for Concept Cars

The High Museum of Art, located in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, is pleasing quite a few car enthusiasts with a new exhibit celebrating 17 concept cars and their designers. It's not the first exhibit of its kind, but it's certainly one of the best received. The exhibit features all sorts of prototype goodies for gearheads, including the Firebird I XP-21, the 1970 Lancia Stratos HF Zero, and other vehicles that didn't quite make the leap from concept to street car production. The exhibit, running until September 7, 2014, represents the only chance many car enthusiasts will have to see works from the maddest minds from BMW, Bugatti, and other producers from the 1930's onward. 'But Cars Aren't Art!' As with any other exhibit that doesn't feature 200-year-old paintings from the great arti...

How Clothing Donation is Saving the Planet and Helping Those in Need

6Jun

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Local

How Clothing Donation is Saving the Planet and Helping Those in Need

As most Americans know, the green movement is big right now, and recycling everything from clothing to natural resources is one of the easiest ways to save our planet. However, not only does the environment benefit from these efforts, but so do people who are in need. Although recycling may seem like a fairly new idea, it's not. Humans have been reusing metals since the beginning of the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago, but it is plastics and other mass-produced materials that we have yet to get the hang of recycling. Yet while metal recycling can often turn a profit (and this profit, not the issue of sustainability, is what motivates these initiatives), clothing and fabric often wind up in landfills instead. Synthetic materials such as polyester, nylon, and rayon, along with natural fiber...

As Mobile Web Use Grows, Responsive Web Design Becomes a Necessity

4Jun

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Business

As Mobile Web Use Grows, Responsive Web Design Becomes a Necessity

More and more Internet users are making the shift from the desktop to their smartphones or tablets, new research is showing. Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley calls 2014 "the year that mobile internet usage will match desktop use," a May 6 Bdaily.com article reported. As mobile web usage continues to grow, so will the need for responsive web design, according to the Huffington Post. Rather than creating two separate websites, one for desktop users and one for mobile platforms, responsive web design allows a website to detect the type of device used and adapt to it, optimizing its display. In June 2012, Google -- which accounts for 67% of search engine market share worldwide -- announced that it prefers responsive web design over other mobile web design configurations, acc...

Twitter Spreading Quickly Through Asia and Latin America, According to New Report

3Jun

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Business, World

Twitter Spreading Quickly Through Asia and Latin America, According to New Report

Although Wall Street might be worried about a slowdown in Twitter's domestic growth, the website that has brought "tweets" to millions of people is still spreading like wildfire through Asia and Latin America, according to a new report by eMarketer research firm.Over the past year, Twitter's growth in both Europe and the United States has started to slow down, and stock prices took a tumble to new lows. Twitter's shares closed last week at $30.50, less than $4 above their original public offering. Although investors might be worried about the plateau that growth seems to have reached here, the social network can still make huge gains in developing markets. Twitter's user base is projected to grow an incredible 25% this year worldwide, and is expected to jump another 19% in 2015 based on re...

A Parking Lot That Could Power Your Business — and the Country

3Jun

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Lifestyle

A Parking Lot That Could Power Your Business — and the Country

What if a parking lot could power your entire business? That's the premise behind a new idea proposed by Idaho couple Julie and Scott Brusaw. Scott Brusaw, who is an electrical engineer, is focused, along with his wife, on creating streets lined with solar panels that will span the entire United States. "All of the current asphalt and concrete currently soaking up the sun can be covered with our technology to turn that sunlight into clean, renewable electricity," Brusaw explains. The idea is promising enough that the U.S. Federal Highway Administration has granted it funding, and the couple, who own a company called Solar Roadways, are currently seeking $1 million on Indiegogo so that they can commercially manufacturer the product for the first time. The hexagonal solar panels, which...