How portable X-ray machines are helping remote patients
Portable X-ray equipment that can take high quality images is transforming healthcare in remote areas.
Congress has a deal to fund the government and not much time to pass it
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Congressional leaders reached a $1.66 trillion agreement Sunday to finance the federal government in 2024, preserving funding for key domestic and social safety net programs despite GOP demands to cut the budget. Now lawmakers are up against a stiff deadline to pass legislation to codify…
Fuselage breach on Alaska Airlines flight puts Boeing under new scrutiny
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The harrowing midair breach of the fuselage on an Alaska Airlines flight near Portland, Ore., on Friday caps a turbulent year for Boeing, with its flagship 737 Max jets beset by manufacturing problems. With an eye on the potential financial hit, the company had recently…
Chelsea’s Sam Kerr the latest women’s soccer star struck by ACL injury
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Chelsea striker Sam Kerr ruptured her ACL and is expected to be sidelined “for an extended period,” the national team in her native Australia announced on social media Sunday. Kerr is the latest in a string of well-known women’s soccer players to have suffered an…
Chelsea’s Sam Kerr the latest women’s soccer star struck by ACL injury
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Chelsea striker Sam Kerr ruptured her ACL and is expected to be sidelined “for an extended period,” the national team in her native Australia announced on social media Sunday. Kerr is the latest in a string of well-known women’s soccer players to have suffered an…
“Your call is very important to us.” Is it, really?
Customer service has become a huge problem in this country. Just ask … literally anyone. But why is customer service so bad? First of all, labor shortage. Especially since the pandemic, it’s hard to find people to fill these jobs. The average call-center worker quits after 18 months. Then there’s consolidation. Corporate mergers of airlines,…
How artificial intelligence is revamping customer call centers
How artificial intelligence is revamping customer call centers – CBS News Watch CBS News Everyone gets angry over customer service call centers – both the customers frustrated at having their complaints heard and resolved, and the employees who are on the receiving end of callers’ ire. That’s when an AI bot can step in to…
Bad News — You’re Probably Wiping All Wrong. Here’s What You Should Be Doing.
You’ve probably heard that few things in life are certain except death and taxes, but we’d like to add something else to the list: cleaning up in the bathroom. So, since we have to do it, what’s the best technique? The preferred method of wiping “is not wiping,” nationally renowned anal surgeon Dr. Evan Goldstein…
FAA grounds more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s after section of Alaska Airlines plane blows out
Passenger oxygen masks hang from the roof next to a missing window and a portion of a side wall of an Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which had been bound for Ontario, California and suffered depressurization soon after departing, in Portland, Oregon, U.S., on Jan. 5, 2024, in this picture obtained from social media. Instagram/@strawberrvy |…
The 2023 U.S. economy, in a dozen charts
A pedestrian holds an umbrella as they walk along a street in the rain in Times Square, New York, on Sept. 26, 2023. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images The state of the U.S. economy may be a chief concern among Americans, but 2023 wound up as a pretty good year for the macroenvironment….
