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Three years ago, as the long-struggling Citigroup was in a tailspin over a billion-dollar fat-finger error, the bank announced its next CEO, Jane Fraser.
Fitts's law: draft of target size W and distance to target D. Fitts's law (often cited as Fitts' law) is a predictive model of human movement primarily used in human–computer interaction and ergonomics. The law predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and ...
BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty. Anita Alvarez of Team USA Artistic Swimming. Two years ago, Anita Alvarez made headlines after she was rescued from drowning by her coach during an artistic swimming ...
“If you see somebody a little lethargic or not with it, tell them, ‘You’re done for the day. Come back tomorrow,’” he said. Know your limits. Urban areas are going to sizzle. Chicago is ...
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour). [Note 3] According to the special theory of relativity, c is the upper limit for the speed at which ...
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
Here’s everything you need to know to attend the concert: Date: Friday, August 30. Check-in: By 5:15am (concert concludes at 9:30 a.m.) Where: 48th Street and Rockefeller Plaza (between 5th and ...
USB-C plug. USB-C (SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps) receptacle on an MSI laptop. USB-C, or USB Type-C, is a 24-pin connector (not a protocol) that supersedes previous USB connectors and can carry audio, video, and other data, e.g., to connect to monitors or external drives. It can also provide and receive power, to power, e.g., a laptop or a mobile phone.