Author: Lily Evans
RALEIGH, N.C. (April 30, 2024) – Wake Tech Career and Technical Education students excelled at the 2024 SkillsUSA North Carolina Leadership & Skills Conference in Greensboro, taking home four top awards. Won 25 amazing awards including;Two students, Schwar Butts (advertising design) and Hasten Goins (architectural drafting), have qualified to compete in the national SkillsUSA competition to be held June 24-28 in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the third consecutive year that Wake Tech students have qualified for the national competition.A total of 73 Wake Tech students from Architectural Engineering and Skilled Technology, Business and Professional Services Technology, Information Technology, Transportation Technology,…
Ibotta employees celebrate with a company picnic at City Park in Denver. (Photo provided by Ibotta) Since its launch in 2012, Ibotta has awarded $1.8 billion in cash rewards to more than 200 million shoppers. The Denver-based company offers benefits through its app and Ibotta Performance Network, which allows businesses to offer promotions through a plug-and-play solution. “Today, millions of consumers can take advantage of our benefits at Walmart, Dollar General, Kroger, Shell and other retailers without creating an Ibotta account or downloading an app. ,” said Julianna Vorhaus, Ibotta brand marketing director. On April 18, the company raised $328…
Companies need the hard skills of highly specialized IT and engineering professionals to fill vacant positions. But it's the soft skills throughout the interview process that will narrow down the perfect fit. Hiring in the technology industry has experienced significant upheaval over the past three years. Amazon, Costco, META and Microsoft have made headlines by laying off tens of thousands of technology workers to offset post-pandemic hiring surges and other economic factors. First months of 2024 More than 42,000 people have been laid off. But at the same time, the demand for technology workers is also increasing. is increasing nationwide.…
When Jason Birnbaum joined United Airlines in 2015 as vice president of operations and workforce technology, expectations for the technology team were surprisingly low. “Employees and customers didn’t trust our tools,” said Birnbaum, who was promoted to senior vice president of digital technology in 2019 and most recently became chief information officer in July 2022. Masu. The first big issue we really tackled was trust. ” The legacy of the company's three-year bankruptcy that ended in 2006 means much-needed technology investments are relegated to the back seat, and mergers like the Continental Airlines acquisition in 2010 have meant a hodgepodge…
Tech stocks were set to start May on the back foot after a series of disappointing corporate results as investors woke up with a hangover from a tough end to April. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.6% early Wednesday as technology stocks rose. Nasdaq Composite Index It fell 2% on Tuesday, capping off its worst month since September 2023. Wednesday's economic data had a negative impact on stock markets, with the employment cost index rising more than expected (the fastest pace in a year) and pointing to solid inflation. Consumer confidence index fell more than expected. Even after the market closed,…
DANVERS — Essex Technological University will feature presentations of student independent research on historical genocide and ongoing underrepresented human rights issues Friday as part of the capstone project of the school's popular Genocide Studies elective. The 7th Genocide Research Exhibition will be held on Friday. course.This public exhibition will focus on the Armenian genocide, the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in October 2023, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The advanced genocide studies course, which began in 2015, examines how the term genocide has been defined throughout history, the conditions under which genocide…
New Zealand's foreign minister on Wednesday ruled out Wellington joining a landmark defense technology deal between Australia, Britain and the United States any time soon, but branded critics as “outdated”.Winston Peters said it would be “irresponsible” for the government not to explore deeper defense co-operation with allies, in a speech that described how the foundations of New Zealand's independence-minded foreign policy had “seismically changed”. He said that. New Zealand's potential participation in the AUKUS group's efforts to develop advanced military technology, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence, underwater drones and hypersonic missiles, has roiled the country's politics. Former centre-left…
Scientists led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a new solar-powered desalination system based on time-varying electrodialysis reversal (EDR) technology. The proposed system is reported to achieve lower levelized costs of water than traditional solar-powered desalination technologies. May 1, 2024 Riolu KahanaA global group of scientists led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new low-cost solar-powered brackish water desalination system that can reduce the levelized cost of water (LCOW) compared to traditional solar-powered desalination systems. It is reported that a desalination system has been developed.The proposed desalination system utilizes a time-varying electrodialysis reversal…
Next game: archon May 1, 2024 | 6pm ESPN+ KMLB 105.7 FM/540 AM May. 01(Wed) / 6pm archon Monroe, Louisiana – Louisiana Tech built an 8-0 lead and defeated ULM 8-4 on Tuesday night at Lou St. Amant Field. The Bulldogs scored in each of the first five innings to build the lead, while the Warhawks scored four runs in the final five to chip away at the lead. Louisiana Tech (34-13 overall) got off to a fast start with Dalton Davis hitting a go-ahead home run in the top of the first inning. Will…
Graphics via UTRGV Athletics. The UTRGV baseball team lost 11 to the Texas Tech Red Raiders, who are receiving votes in the latest USA Today Coaches and Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll, on Tuesday at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park in Lubbock. Lost by 6. Junior Sharyland High School graduate Martin Vazquez hit his 15th home run of the season, ranking him fourth in single-season program history. Vazquez trails only Jesse Gutierrez (2000, 21 years old), Hall of Famer Mitchell Moran (1983, 20 years old) and Brandon Pimentel (2023, 19 years old). Vasquez had a career-high-tying four RBIs…