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Dollar General has gotten hit by steep fines for safety violations, slammed on late-night TV and even overruled by its own shareholders.On Thursday, CEO Todd Vasos laid out on an earnings call with investors the discounter's plans to try to turn around both the company's performance and its public relations problems. He said the retailer will put more workers in the front of its stores, slow down new store openings, take underperforming items off shelves and step up efforts to keep merchandise in stock.It marked the first…

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Black Friday is said to have originated in Philadelphia in the 1960s, when members of the city’s police department used the term to describe the chaos that broke out when droves of suburbanites flooded downtown to shop on the day after Thanksgiving. The American tradition swelled to monstrous proportions in the early 1980s, when grainy and horrifying footage of citizens knocking each other to the ground became a fixture of holiday-weekend local news.These sharp-elbowed consumers were keen to scoop up Atari consoles,…

For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too often we’ve had to break the news to a young company that the vast majority of their traffic is bots logging into fake accounts.Unsurprisingly, there is a lot that people don’t understand about how the bot ecosystem works. Some bots are performing valuable services like scraping open reservation times for your favorite…

Music streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it will modify how it pays artists in 2024, introducing a minimum number of times a piece must be streamed before qualifying for royalties.With its announced changes, Spotify estimates it can generate around a billion dollars in additional revenue for artists over the next five years. The world's largest music streaming platform said on its website for artists that it plans "to further deter artificial streaming, better distribute small payments that aren't reaching artists, and…

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In this image provided by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, blue threads can be seen in a six shillings Delaware note printed by J. Adams on January 1, 1776. Counterfeiters found it difficult to duplicate the note. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences via AP Benjamin Franklin was so busy as an inventor, publisher, scientist, diplomat and U.S. founding father that it's easy to lose track of his…

And a digital dollar looks less and less likely by the day. The case for cash Opponents of a hypothetical US CBDC cast it as a solution in search of a problem. Dollars are already digital, after all. If you paid with a debit card recently, did you not pay with digital dollars? China’s move to pilot a consumer central bank digital currency is not reason by itself to pursue one, they argue. Libra failed to launch; a global digital currency run by a tech company is no longer an issue. What purpose would a…

AJP says it will use the funds to experiment with AI by creating a technology and AI studio made up of a team who will evaluate AI applications within local news, find the best ways to leverage AI, and act as an intermediary between external vendors such as OpenAI and AJP's portfolio. With the funds, AJP will also make pilot investments, giving approximately ten of its portfolio organizations direct grants to help them explore AI's potential as well. In addition to the initial $5 million, OpenAI is also gifting AJP and…

Whether you're planning an international vacation or need to travel domestically for work, the high cost of airfare does not make traveling any easier. If you search for flights yourself, you may be able to find decent deals, or you could use a tool that automates the process for you. Dollar Flight Club (DFC) automatically searches for flights leaving your selected airports and notifies you of low prices, so you don't have to do the hard work yourself. StackSocial is currently offering a Dollar Flight Club membership for…