Replacing Andrew Jackson on the bill caused an explosion of tweets when it was announced in April 2016. The proposed redesign was made public in 2019 and was supposed to have been put into circulation last year on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. However, Trump’s treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, halted the process because he believed that adding security features on the money was more important than changing the face on the bill, adding that the redesign wouldn’t be in circulation until 2028. … [Read more...] about Harriet Tubman will finally replace Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill
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These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching
FACIAL RECOGNITION IN NYC Following the September 11 attacks, the NYPD spent $350 million in federal grants to develop surveillance infrastructure called the Domain Awareness System (DAS). It’s a sprawling network of license plate scanners, physical sensors, and 18,000 CCTV cameras, and it all feeds into a series of NYPD databases. In the years after its completion, the system was used for both counterterrorism and local law enforcement. It wasn’t immediately paired with facial recognition, but the surveillance hardware was in place. … [Read more...] about These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching
See a proposed redesign of the $20 bill, featuring Harriet Tubman
Like the rest of today’s bills, the Tubman design has all of these features. In fact, the bill looks almost identical to the ones that are already in your wallet, except for an important difference: This is the first time a woman and a person of color will be on any standard denomination. Despite the political back and forth, getting a glimpse of what the future Tubmans might look like is downright inspiring. It’s about time. … [Read more...] about See a proposed redesign of the $20 bill, featuring Harriet Tubman
Alcohol played a ‘difficult role’ in her life. Then she became CEO of Pernod Ricard North America
And yet the pandemic has completely changed Mukherjee’s approach to many aspects of her job, particularly when it comes to hiring and retraining employees. “I’m recruiting people that maybe couldn’t work full-time because they were a mother,” she says. “But now I can leverage them in ways I never thought.” With restaurants and bars shut down, Mukherjee’s team also wanted to figure out how to give back to their community. “There are a ton of bartenders that are out of jobs,” she says. “My team said, ‘How about if we start educating them on cocktails and hospitality?'” … [Read more...] about Alcohol played a ‘difficult role’ in her life. Then she became CEO of Pernod Ricard North America
These scientists created a model city to figure out the most effective order to give the vaccine
Because it’s a midsize city, lessons drawn from New Rochelle are easily translatable to other similar-size communities across America. That’s why a team of engineers at New York University used it as the basis of a new predictive model for assessing COVID-19 transmission rates, and for finding out whether vaccination priority systems are effective. The study’s results led them to question the need to prioritize certain high-risk groups, especially when available doses are so low, since that vaccination strategy didn’t appear to lower infection rates as much as lockdowns and other measures to stop the spread. … [Read more...] about These scientists created a model city to figure out the most effective order to give the vaccine
