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Here’s how it will work

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Despite the various constraints brought on by the Covid pandemic for the past more than a year, the Delhi Metro, in its efforts to continuously improve the travel experience for its commuters, has successfully gained the option of free high-speed WiFi service from everyone Metro stations on their Yellow Line (ie Line-2 from HUDA City Center to Samaypur Badli) starting today. This service, which coincides with the start of the festival season, will be launched on this line, which consists of 37 metro stations and runs mostly underground through one of the busiest parts of Delhi, from Outer Delhi, North Delhi through Central Delhi and South Delhi and finally Gurugram. More than 330 access points were installed at these 37 stations to provide commuters with uninterpreted internet access. This free high-speed WiFi service will prove to be a special boon for students traveling to and from Delhi University's North Delhi campus.

Laundry Goes Techno: Putting Quarters out of Work

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Todd Belveal is one of those serial entrepreneurs who make everything look simple. But that's not how it started for him. His summer college internships were at Tiffany's. There he worked his way up - in the truest sense of the word - from the role of elevator driver to sales in Crystal. Belveal flourished under the tutelage of one of the company's most famous shop assistants, Ms. Sein. Tiffanys later offered him a position as operations manager - and became the youngest person in the company's history to hold that executive position. They paid for his MBA on the side. As early as 2012, Belveal and his team were among the first in the world to develop connected cars. Renting, measuring fuel consumption, unlocking the car, etc. was possible via mobile phone. Silvercar made car rental easier for business travelers. One make, one model and one color of the car (silver Audi A4) and a uniform rental price in the USA quickly made the company the favorite of b

How Quontic Bank adapts to crypto, remote work and wearable tech

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Quontic, a bank headquartered in New York City, describes itself as an "adaptive digital bank". Since CEO Steven Schnall bought the former Golden First Bank in 2009, the The entrepreneur and former mortgage banker designed the bank to reflect his vision. "Part of the thesis when I bought the bank was that the retail bank branches would eventually die out and people, especially consumers, would want to do online banking," he said. Because of this belief, Schnall did not build any new branches after the purchase other than the stationary location he established in Queens Astoria when he relocated the bank's headquarters from Great Neck, New York. The bank, a certified community development financial institution (CDFI), began with an emphasis on unskilled mortgage loans, Schnall said. Steven Schnall, CEO of Quontic Bank Permission granted by Quontic Bank "During the credit crunch, most banks and lenders had severe

Making work safer, healthier one data point at a time

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Gabriel P. Glynn Using data to predict risk, prevent injury, and prevent death is not a new concept. Meteorologists have been collecting and analyzing weather data for centuries and can now predict the increase in the risk of severe weather with a relatively high degree of accuracy. It is not just a factor like wind or heat, but a confluence of various factors that, when present, increase the likelihood of bad weather. Early warning systems and weather radios have saved countless lives, and all of this has been made possible by the vast amount of data that began a long time ago. Today's construction sites are extremely complex. Large construction sites and gigantic manufacturing companies are full of moving devices, machines and, above all, people. Every day these people show up at the construction site and have an experience throughout their shift that is completely unique to them. The environmental conditions to which they are exposed are unique. The energy the

Work on 5G tech at GE Research may benefit community as well

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NISKAYUNA - There's a lot of talk these days about 5G, the super-fast next-generation wireless network that the cellular industry has been promoting as a game changer for its customers for years. Cellular operators have adopted the new technology - which uses more bandwidth than previous networks, enables faster speeds, and allows larger amounts of data to be transferred - as quickly as possible, and are mostly targeting larger cities across the country first. When GE Research in Niskayuna, the corporate research arm of General Electric Co., recently revealed plans to convert its campus into a test site for 5G, it was a big deal. Not just for GE, but also for its neighbors, "to enable more residents and visitors of Niskayuna to have high-speed wireless access," said the two companies. The 5G test stand from GE Research will also bring the so-called "Band 14" radio spectrum to Niskayuna, which the federal g

Making work safer, healthier one data point at a time

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Gabriel P. Glynn Using data to predict risk, prevent injury, and prevent death is not a new concept. Meteorologists have been collecting and analyzing weather data for centuries and can now predict the increase in the risk of severe weather with a relatively high degree of accuracy. It is not just a factor like wind or heat, but a confluence of various factors that, when present, increase the likelihood of bad weather. Early warning systems and weather radios have saved countless lives, and all of this has been made possible by the vast amount of data that began a long time ago. Today's construction sites are extremely complex. Large construction sites and gigantic manufacturing companies are full of moving devices, machines and, above all, people. Every day these people show up at the construction site and have an experience throughout their shift that is completely unique to them. The environmental conditions to which they are exposed are unique. The energy the