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Colorado has become the first state to do away legacy admissions in public colleges. The governor also ended a requirement that public colleges consider SAT or ACT scores for freshmen.
Ghost Town Security: What Threats Lurk in Abandoned Offices? Millions of office buildings and campuses were rapidly abandoned during the pandemic. Now it's a year later. What happened in those office parks and downtown ghost towns? What security dangers lurk there now, waiting to ambush returning businesses? (image by Rob Dobi, via Adobe Stock) Take a bow, ye in IT and infosec, for pulling off the biggest, baddest save-the-world action in the heat of a pandemic. Because of you, businesses keep running even when there isn't anyone in the building to keep the lights on and the machines patched....
Documenting local ruins is a passion for Trumbull man Donald Eng FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 2of9 3of9 5of9 6of9 8of9 9of9 TRUMBULL — Abandoned buildings are a bit like time capsules, containing artifacts of a world that hasn’t existed in decades — and for decades, Trumbull resident Rob Dobi has been drawn to them. “There’s something about it that’s so serene,” Dobi said. “Especially when you think of places where thousands of people once worked that one day they just locked up and left.” Dobi is an urban explorer. He and others who enjoy the hobby painstakingly document moder...
Yelp stock might merit only a one-star review for 2020. The widespread shutdown of indoor dining has weighed heavily on the online recommendation service. Yelp shares have lost 20% of their value this year, trading at a recent $26.53 and underperforming the Nasdaq Composite index by more than 60 percentage points. Yet changes in its business model, combined with hopes for a reopening of the economy as Covid-19 vaccines arrive, give reason to think that Yelp (ticker: YELP) can reach for the stars. Yelp is trading for a modest two times estimated forward sales, well below Trip...
© Rob Dobi / BuzzFeed Two years ago, a handful of Facebook employees began to raise internal alarms about a series of advertisements appearing in their news feeds. Purchased by a then up-and-coming lip-synching app called Musical.ly — now known as TikTok — the ads featured teenage girlsprovocatively gyrating to music in short video clips. Curious as to why he and his colleagues were seeing ads ostensibly meant for young girls, one Facebook employee, who was also a father, dug into the company's advertising system at the time to determine what was going on. What he discovered wasn't an er...