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Email is far from dead, folks. Businesses ranging from large to local all benefit from having an email system in place. For a small business, setting up an official email is a great way to keep all important business matters and inquiries in one convenient place. It's a little alarming, but about 97% of the 60 billion emails sent each day are considered spam. These spam messages may have been written intending harm for the receivers, or they may just be 'junk mail'. Email hosts nowadays have decent spam filters in place to comb through your incoming mail, but malicious messages can still slip through. Recognizing a Malicious Email They notify you of an order you never made, e.g. via PayPal or Amazon, and offer a link to cancel it. The email asks you to reply with personal info such as...

Did you visit a Starbucks location during the afternoon of Tuesday, May 29? If you did, you probably found yourself locked out of the building and unable to get your daily venti caramel iced coffee with skim milk. About 90% of U.S. households regularly indulge in a sweet, frozen treat. If your regular frozen treat is a Frappuccino and you weren't able to get it last week, there is a reason. The reason why your Starbucks was closed, along with so many other locations throughout the country, was to host a racial bias education day. According to Time about 175,000 participated in the diversity training. This moment comes after a high-profile incident occurred in April in a Philadelphia Starbucks. The incident involved a white store manager calling the police on two black men who were si...

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey recently signed a law that allows dental therapists to practice in specified settings throughout the state. The law will take effect August 3 and will allow dental therapists, a midlevel provider, to be a licensed profession. Along with six other states, Arizona will now allow dental therapists to practice in settings like tribal settings, federally qualified health centers, and nonprofit community centers. Like many states, Arizona has growing dental health needs. And with dental therapists, certain procedures, like fillings and extractions, will be able to be done at decreased costs. With the number of people who need dental implants growing by 500,000 every year, more states are taking action to provide easier access to dental care. The bill was sponsored b...

The demand for Big Data skills in the business world is on the rise. According to the latest Tech Cities Job Watch report from Experis, the demand for Big Data skills has increased by 78% since last year. What's more, the demand for contractors increased by 128% during the same period alongside a 68% increase in the permanent jobs market. Big Data refers the enormous amount of data that's created and collected by businesses on a regular basis. The data collected is too complex and voluminous to be analyzed manually and so must be analyzed using specific software. Some of the key qualifications in demand for those in Big Data roles include experience with Python, Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB, Hive, Java, Tableau, AWS, and Cloudera. Employees with multiple skill sets including broader IT ...

The Association for Safe International Road Travel estimates that over 37,000 U.S. residents die in road crashes every year. For senior citizens, the risks of driving accidents often increase due to slowed reaction times, reliance on medication, or changes in vision or hearing. A recent report has found that seniors in Arizona, in particular, have become much more likely to be involved in a fatal crash in just the last few years. Since people are living longer on average, seniors now account for a larger proportion of the population. Currently, there are an estimated 46 million people over the age of 65 living in the U.S., representing 15% of all Americans. By 2060, researchers estimate that this demographic will represent 24% of the entire population. Because seniors are living longer,...