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Flickr User Karlis Dambrans FCC sets new indoor 911 location accuracy standards Technology • January 29, 2015 9:51 AMJanuary 29, 2015 9:51 AM FOLLOW STORY FOLLOW STORY Flickr User Karlis Dambrans FCC sets new indoor 911 location accuracy standards | Circa News.
To state the obvious, it seems like an odd time to discontinue the one Times beat devoted solely to race and ethnicity. (A few words of reminder: Michael Brown of Ferguson, Eric Garner of Staten Island, Tamir Rice of Cleveland.) But that’s what happened this week, as the Times announced that Tanzina Vega, who has…
We’ll miss you, L train. (Idle Type / Flickr) If you live off the L train, now is the time to move. MOVE NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE/GET TRAPPED IN BROOKLYN. Because, as we were forewarned, terrible things are about to come to those onboard the Hippest Silver Bullet. Things that make the 7…
After a decade of grossly offensive advertisements objectifying scantily-clad women, website domain provider GoDaddy is trying to convince the world that its tasteless days are over. In late 2013, chief marketing officer Barb Rechterman announced that the company has “matured” and “evolved” and promised to put an end to its infamous racy ads. This decision…
Begin: WordPress Article Content It seems that with every earnings report, we hit another milestone in Facebook’s shift to mobile. Here’s the latest one: 526 million of its monthly active users access Facebook solely from their mobile devices.That’s up from 456 million in the previous quarter, and it’s an increase of around 78 percent from…
A new analysis suggests that President Barack Obama ’s recent tax proposals would do little to boost incomes for middle-class households, and actually could wind up raising taxes on many, at least by some measures. The analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, tends to undercut recent…
GIF by Jaeger Sloan Studio As we all know, Mayor Bill de Blasio repeatedly warned New Yorkers about the impending blizzard (that ultimately wasn’t) with statements like, “We are facing most likely one of the largest snowstorms in the history of this city. Prepare for the worst and we will all be able to get…
googleon: snippetFor the past four years, photographer Brandon Stanton has documented people he encountered along the streets of New York City for his popular blog, “Humans of New York,” but it was a photo last week of a teenager in Brooklyn that has taken the world by storm. Walking through Brownsville, Brooklyn, an area with…
WOODINVILLE, Wash.—Five years ago, Quadrant Homes churned out starter houses in the Seattle area with an average sales price of $269,000 and the marketing slogan, “More House, Less Money.” But facing a debt-burdened middle class and rising land prices, Quadrant has since exchanged entry-level buyers for customers free of credit worries and ready to splurge….
article start American families have made big strides repairing their balance sheets from the economic crash, but their finances remain disturbingly vulnerable to emergencies—a major obstacle to economic mobility, a new report says. About 70% of U.S. households are struggling with at least one of three problems with their balance sheets—low incomes, insufficient savings or…