Automating financial tasks sounds like the perfect way to check mundane items such as saving and paying bills off your to-do list with minimal effort. But there's a potential downside to giving up manual control. When you automate bills, you may be less likely to review them and notice errors, or to catch yourself overspending. [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Some grain elevators are so full that farmers trying to sell their crops are being turned away. But at the same time, flour and animal-feed mills are halting production because they can't get the grain they need. The issue? The lack of trains to move the grain. Federal regulators are holding [...]
MENLO, Iowa (AP) — With inflation at a 40-year high, President Joe Biden journeyed to corn-rich Iowa this week to announce a modest step aimed at trimming gasoline prices by about a dime a gallon at a limited number of stations by waiving rules that restrict ethanol blending. Most gasoline sold in the U.S. is [...]
NEW YORK — A controversial face recognition company that's built a massive photographic dossier of the world's people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses. Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Nearly 60 years ago, an historic black community founded as a home for newly freed slaves was demolished to expand a national park commemorating the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War casualties. Now park rangers and iris enthusiasts believe they may have found a botanical reminder — Louisiana irises and African [...]
Borrowing from the state’s role as a leader in aviation and aeronautics, officials at the Ohio Supercomputer Center have dubbed its new high performance computing cluster Ascend. The new cluster, which is expected to come on line this fall, functions with advanced graphics processing units, or GPUs, to support artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data [...]
Schools across the country are racing to make up for time they lost during the pandemic by budgeting billions of dollars for tutoring, summer camps and longer school days and trying to untangle which students need help most urgently after two years of disruptions. Many schools saw large numbers of students fall under the radar [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Jennifer Chau was astonished last month when the U.S. Census Bureau's report card on how accurately it counted the nation’s population in 2020 showed that Asian people were overcounted by the highest rate of any race or ethnic group. The director of an Asian American advocacy group thought thousands of people would [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Farms that rely on irrigation from a depleted, federally managed lake on the California-Oregon border, along with a Native American tribe fighting to protect fragile salmon, will both receive extremely limited amounts of water this summer as a historic drought and record-low reservoir levels drag on in the West. More than [...]