Anas Siddiqui As you start your dental practice, there is one big priority on your mind: your dental supplies. What is a dentist without the best tools for the job? However, instead of just picking and choosing dental supplies and equipment from what you saw at other practices, you’ll want to think about the specific needs and … Read more
BEIJING — A fresh outbreak in Beijing has prompted authorities to test millions and impose new measures two weeks ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics, even as Chinese officials on Monday lifted a monthlong lockdown on the northern city of Xi’an and its 13 million residents. Despite falling case numbers, pandemic controls have … Read more
A man walks past a Wells Fargo Bank branch on a rainy morning in Washington. Gary Cameron | Reuters U.S. banks closed a record number of retail branches in 2021 as customers increasingly turn to digital banking and the industry consolidates. On net, U.S. banks shuttered 2,927 branches last year, according to S&P Global Market … Read more
Two years into a pandemic, many aspects of work have changed drastically. In that time, some people have started new jobs, Zoomed their days away and then left companies where they never even met their co-workers in person. But one aspect of work remains remarkably unchanged: the importance of the traditional, single-page resume created … Read more
Do you practically live online? We’re now doing more online than ever before, in part driven by pandemic conditions. Internet usage in the UK more than doubled in 2020, but while the convenience and comfort it brings can’t be overstated, neither should the security risks. Thankfully, it doesn’t take too much time or effort to … Read more
An index has a close relationship with stocks. That is to say that an index stock equates to the aggregate number of publicly traded companies in a region or a specific exchange. Due to the uniqueness of stock indices according to their regions affects their value by the region’s economy and overall economic health. The … Read more
There’s little like the thrill of shopping for a new car – whether you like configuring your perfect specification online, or heading into showrooms for test drives, or eagerly tracking down the very best deals. It’s that last part we’re here to help with. Because even once you’ve found the car you want, there are … Read more
Credit: La Trobe University A team of Australian geneticists has discovered the gene that determines the sex of dragon lizards works differently from the way sex genes work in other animals. Published today in PNAS, the study showed dragon lizards are determined to be male or female by epigenetic rather than genetic differences—that is, … Read more
Millions of people’s credit cards will stop working on Amazon’s UK website from this week – unless there is an 11th-hour resolution to a bitter dispute between the retailer and payments giant Visa. In November, Amazon told customers that from 19 January it would stop accepting payments made with UK-issued Visa credit cards, in what … Read more
Wordle is a free browser game, and a browser game only — it has no accompanying apps, something that some people (myself included, regrettably) might not realize during a time when nearly everything has an app. This leaves plenty of room for fake Wordle apps to crowd app stores in an attempt to leech off … Read more
