Smartphone-Only ATMs Coming Soon
To the long list of things you can do with your phone — including watch a movie, buy a latte and hail a ride — prepare to add one more: get cash. Over the next few months, the nation’s three biggest banks will start rolling out ATMs that will let customers withdraw currency using their smartphones instead of debit cards — the latest step toward a future in which phones could replace bank branches and wallets. “My boys are 5 and 6 — I...
FCC: Internet Is Faster, as Providers Promised
Washington — Internet providers are keeping promises made in advertising about faster download speeds, according to a report from the Federal Communications Commission. Most of the time, consumers are streaming TV shows and surfing the Web at speeds they are paying for. Sometimes it’s even faster depending on the time of day or the geographic location of the home. On the downside, there is an increasing gap between those with access...
Internet Service Tax Ban About to Be Permanent
Washington — Should state and local governments be able to collect taxes on your Internet service? For years, Congress has repeatedly banned the practice, but only for short spurts at a time. Now, a bill that’s soon set to become law will make that ban permanent — meaning Internet providers, and by extension, consumers, won’t have to fear that their subscription to fixed broadband will be subject to state and local taxes. Buried in a...
APD Says D-H Affiliation Best Fit
Concord — Officials at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital began exploring an affiliation with the large medical system operated by its neighbor, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, after concluding that the community hospital in Lebanon could not survive if it lost a Medicare subsidy for small rural hospitals and deciding not to explore a sale to a national, for-profit chain. Those are among the details of the pending deal that were laid out in a...
Security Tool Takes Pictures Of Those Trying to Hack You
Have you ever gotten an email warning that someone is trying to hack into your account and wondered: Who is doing this to me? A password manager called LogMeOnce now gives you the option to take a picture of whomever is trying to access the accounts you’ve registered with its service. It does this by hacking the hacker’s camera, whether on a computer or a mobile device, and secretly taking a photo. The feature, called Mugshot, also...
