Technology In The Classroom

Tennessee job services, benefits could be restored by this weekend after computer network outages

magenet 8 hours ago

Unemployment benefits delayed this week for more than 12,000 Tennesseans due to a computer outage should be restored next week if, as expected, computer network service for the state labor agency is restored this weekend, officials said Thursday.

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development had to suspend processing jobless claims and posting job listings this week after its website, Jobs4TN.gov, shut down Sunday due to a potential cyberattack against the state’s computer software vendor, Geographic Solutions Inc.

Paul Toomey, president of the Palm Harbor, Florida-based Geographic Solutions, said he expects his company will be able to restore computer service over the July Fourth weekend to allow the Tennessee’s employment agency to resume claims and benefit processing next week.

“We recently identified anomalous activity on our network and immediately took the Jobs4TN system offline to halt the activity,” Toomey said in a statement released Thursday. “Our current focus is

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T-Mobile is paying customers to swap out their Sprint SIM cards

magenet 8 hours ago

It’s been a bit over two years since T-Mobile merged with Sprint. T-Mobile discontinued the Sprint brand four months later in August 2020, but many legacy Sprint subscribers have still yet to swap out their SIM cards. In an effort to convince those customers to make the switch, T-Mobile is offering them a $10 bill credit, as The T-Mo Report discovered.

T-Mobile will pay you to swap your Sprint SIM card

Earlier this week, a source sent The T-Mo Report a document detailing a brand new program targeting any T-Mobile customers using Sprint’s SIM cards. Starting June 30, Sprint will give “targeted Sprint biller customers” a $10 bill credit per line when they swap their SIM cards. This is a limited-time promotion, but the document doesn’t reveal an end date.

T-Mobile’s program for swapping out all the Sprint SIM cards is called the T-Mobile Network Experience. As the T-Mobile site

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Panel Discusses Benefits of Wearable Technology

magenet 9 hours ago

Just like the earth of day to day folks and skilled athletes, wearable technologies has begun to make inroads in Thoroughbred racing.

Speaking at the 10th Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit at Keeneland June 22, the panelists see numerous of the very same applications of this sort of technological know-how and the data it creates that men and women practical experience from a myriad of devices these kinds of as Fitbits, Oura rings, and Apple Watches. Now they want to see it applied to assist continue to keep horses healthy but also crank out revenue for the business.

Dr. Scott Palmer, the clinical director for the New York Condition Gaming Fee, thinks utilizing this sort of technology will allow stakeholders to get a improved perspective of what places horses at greater chance of damage and perform toward preventative actions. 

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Should You Buy a Robot Vacuum Cleaner? 5 Things to Consider

magenet 10 hours ago

Robot vacuum cleaning up orange hair next to a sitting cat.
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Robot vacuums seem terrific in concept. Your flooring are cleaned day-to-day by a robotic assistant so that when you wake up or get home from perform you have one a lot less detail to do. However, the theory does not usually translate nicely in observe.

Robotic Vacuums Have Authentic Advantages

A robot vacuum is specifically what it sounds like: a small, autonomous cleaning unit that deploys by itself instantly to clear up right after you. Once you have designed the preliminary investment, they’re unbelievably low cost to run and call for only periodic consideration from you in the variety of emptying them as you would a common vacuum.

Robot vacuums are significantly lesser than your standard cylinder, upright, or stick vacuum cleaners. They never will need to be ergonomic since you won’t be “using” them in the standard feeling. Considering the fact that they really don’t have to be

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