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How student loans impact workers’ long-term career choices

Fast Company Tech

Student loan debt has an influence over borrowers career choices long after graduation, affecting their job satisfaction, career advancement, and investment strategies. It not only impacts people’s day-to-day financials, but also their morale at work, job acceptance, as well as their retention. When they choose to accept.

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How We Closed Our Office Sustainably — and Made a Lot of People Happy

The MatrixFiles

We still had a lot of items left that deserved a second life. And the teachers at the high school were ecstatic to receive fresh supplies and furniture to support their students. Local families benefited : Items that still had a lot of life left found new homes. Frozen in time. But we didnt stop there.

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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

Bickel As gerontologists social scientists who study aging populations we envision a future in which older people leave a doctors visit with a prescription to go volunteer for something. In addition, their blood pressure is lower , and they appear to be aging more slowly than other people of the same age. AP Photo/Joshua A.

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How tech can help people with dementia stay in the workplace longer

Fast Company Tech

We were curious about how typical Pauls experience was of the trajectories of people diagnosed while working. More people are extending their working lives beyond traditional retirement ages, and many more are being diagnosed with dementia. Older people are often stereotyped as technologically incompetent.

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NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing, AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

Its Luminary award recognizes people transforming healthcare by advancing precision medicine in the clinic. For nearly two decades, NVIDIA has advanced computing in healthcare working with researchers and industry leaders to build instruments that enable scientists to better understand life sciences, medical imaging and genomics.

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Student gets Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone

The Verge

The Windows 11 preview only got released earlier this week, but a student has already managed to get Microsoft’s latest operating system running on a Windows Phone. Engineering student Gustave Monce has created a brief video demonstrating Windows 11 running on a Lumia 950 XL, one of the first devices to ship with Windows 10 Mobile.

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Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students

The Verge

Facebook is getting back to its roots today with the launch of a new product called Campus, a section of the main app specifically designed for college students. In a nod to the original Facebook, they’ll even have access to a “Campus directory” where they can find and friend other students.

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