Home Depot boosts service with self checkout technology
The Home Depot will install touch screen self checkout at about 800 locations to shorten lines and speed service. The FAST system guides customers through scanning with voices in English or Spanish and aims to cut the need for extra staff while expanding part time roles.
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Home Depot
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Jackson Securities Inc
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Don Harrison
NCR Corp
Microsoft
Rice weatherproofing breakthrough by Cornell researchers
Cornell University biologists report a genetically engineered rice with trehalose that improves drought and salt tolerance and sustains high yields. The team fused two E coli genes and inserted them into rice to revive after stress, with potential use in corn and wheat. They seek patent protection but aim to keep the technology public to aid poor countries.
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Cornell University
Ithaca
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Cornell
Earth from space becomes abstract art in Landsat exhibit
Washington readers glimpse Landsat-7 imagery repurposed as art in the Library of Congress exhibit Earth as Art. The 41 selected images from over 400,000 shots contrast scientific use with aesthetic appeal. They map deserts, mountains, rivers, and cities in red green and blue, illustrating how space data becomes visual poetry.
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Earth
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Library of Congress
US Geological Survey
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Landsat
Iran
Dasht-e Kevir
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Basra
University president subpoenaed to testify on mobster brother
Massachusetts leader William Bulger faces a congressional subpoena to testify about his fugitive brother James Whitey Bulger. Bulger’s lawyer said options were being considered as the House committee contends for compliance.
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University of Massachusetts
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House Government Reform Committee
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Massachusetts Senate
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FBI
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Conress
Jim Wilson
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