Month: November 2016

Over 30 million U.S. citizens travel internationally every year, and even more travel domestically. One lodging company has changed the way that people travel. Airbnb, an eight-year-old company which allows travelers to stay in other peoples’ homes when they travel domestically and abroad, vastly decreasing the amount of money they must budget for lodging and […]

Airplanes have been flying billboard advertisements since the early 1920s. Thanks to the advent and rapidly growing popularity of drone technology, there might be aerial advertisements piloted by drones. Intel, a tech company, unveiled its new “shooting star” drone in early November showing 500 drones flying across the sky in an airfare-style formation in Germany. […]

Simply having a high quality-landscaping job can increase the resale value of a property by up to 14%. Some landowners, however, would rather use their property for storage and not for appearances. According to WUFT, Doug Englert, a Gainesville, Florida man, might be considered a hoarder by the majority of his neighbors and anyone passing […]

When the North American Free Trade Agreement was first brokered in 1994, it established one of the largest free-trade spaces in the world between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. But if president-elect Donald Trump has his way come January 20, NAFTA will fast become a relic of the past. One of the primary items […]

North America’s first offshore wind farm, Block Island Wind Farm, just started operations late last month and expects to be working at full capacity by Thanksgiving. At that stage, the farm will generate enough electricity to power over 4% of all homes in Rhode Island — some 17,000 homes. Block Island is an ideal location […]

Most of us can agree that we find it difficult to be separated from our technology. Even when we’re on the job, many of us use our phones — or maintain easy access to them — in the workplace. Piggy-backing on laws that tackle unsafe driving practices related to technological distractions, the Occupational Safety and […]