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☆ Meta found a new way to crack down on scam accounts, and it seems to be working
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta is partnering with banks to identify scam accounts. Meta says the collaboration led to the removal of 20,000 scam accounts in the UK alone. So Meta launched a new program that allows banks to "share intelligence" directly with the social media conglomerate to more efficiently combat scams. Meta said in a statement that, based on data shared by the two banks, it has already removed 20,000 accounts it believes were run by scammers. In just the first six months, the program blocked 8,000 different pages and 9,000 celebrity scams, Meta told the outlet.

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☆ Russia's showing NATO its hand in the air war over Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Sinéad Baker | Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Experts told Business Insider the Ukraine war has underscored how some elements of modern air combat are radically changing. And in fights like Desert Storm and the Iraq War, the West established air superiority by taking out its opponent's air defenses. The Russian air force can't meet Western air forces air to air in a major attack without being "shot to pieces," Bronk said. "Nobody really wants an air war with Russia," said John Baum, a Mitchell Institute expert and retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel. "It is not a highly desirable thing, I think, from either side, to want to have this air war."

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☆ Supercentenarians who live past 110 have 9 things in common, according to a scientist who studies them
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewA supercentenarian expert shared with Business Insider the nine things people who live to 110 and beyond have in common. Be resilientBeing resilient and able to endure hard times is one of the key predictors of longevity in supercentenarians, Lindberg said. Be spiritualSpirituality, meaning believing in something greater than ourselves versus following a specific religion, is also very common among the supercentenarians that Lindberg has studied. AdvertisementMaintain a healthy weight"There haven't really been any obese supercentenarians," Lindberg said. Dr. Robert Waldinger, the study's lead researcher, previously told BI that healthy relationships had a surprisingly large impact on people's odds of living longer.

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☆ 8 mistakes you're probably making when grilling chicken
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Sara Lindberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Medium-high heat is the right temperature for chicken on a gas grill. iStockIf you're cranking the heat up too high you might be ruining your dinner. "If you're using a gas grill, medium-high is an ideal temperature — about 350 degrees," she said. If you're using charcoal to cook wings, consider pushing the coals to one side so the chicken cooks on indirect heat. That way you have direct heat on one side for searing and indirect heat on the other for lower and slower cooking.

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☆ Insurance companies are betting on AI and mass data analytics in a battle against fraud that costs billions
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Amanda Paule | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementLosses from insurance fraud are nearly double what they were 30 years ago. Scott Clayton, the head of claims fraud at Zurich Insurance Group. AdvertisementAdvertisementOn the other hand, around 40% of fraud is premeditated, and these cases can cost insurance companies upwards of €3,000, or around $3,170, according to the study. But the Insurance Fraud Detection Market is expected to grow from $5 billion in 2023 to $17 billion in 2028. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the past 10 years, various third-party developers like Friss, IBM, and Shift Technology have started tailoring machine-learning systems to insurance companies.

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Yes to life" take part in a anti-lithium protest in Covas do Barroso, Portugal, August 15, 2023. With 60,000 tonnes of known reserves, Portugal is already Europe's biggest producer of lithium, traditionally mined for ceramics. Referring to the Barroso project and another in France, he said it would be "a disaster if either ... doesn't succeed". But with only 15 of 916 submissions in a public consultation supporting the project, Savannah faces a struggle to win over locals who have said they will fight it and the APA in court. "Politicians listen to those who shout loudest and have most money - and that's the mining industry," she said.

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☆ Citizens Financial Unit Investigated for Sales of Savings Product Controlled by Troubled Financier Greg Lindberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Citizens Financial has 1,200 branches, mostly in the Northeast. Massachusetts securities regulators said they are investigating a unit of Citizens Financial Group Inc. over its sales of a savings product offered by an insurer controlled by now-indicted financier Greg Lindberg . News of the probe follows an article published this week in The Wall Street Journal, which reported that tens of thousands of people, many of them retirees, had a total of $2.2 billion of their money frozen since 2019 amid the implosion of Mr. Lindberg’s insurance empire.

☆ Thousands of Retirees Can’t Withdraw Savings Invested in Firms Controlled by Indicted Financier Greg Lindberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | Photographs Christopher Capozziello For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mark Zintel, a retiree who lives near Tampa, Fla., is furious that $700,000 in annuities he bought from an insurer have been frozen for almost four years. He is one of tens of thousands of people whose money was rendered unreachable as the empire of self-described billionaire Greg Lindberg slowly imploded.

☆ Greg Lindberg, Insurance Entrepreneur, Faces New Criminal Charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Jennifer S. Forsyth | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Greg Lindberg, pictured in 2018, was sent to federal prison in 2020 before an appeals court in June overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial. A federal grand jury indicted North Carolina insurance entrepreneur Greg Lindberg , alleging that he directed a criminal scheme to defraud policyholders of hundreds of millions of dollars in part to finance his lavish lifestyle. The new charges, handed up in the Western District of North Carolina, are the latest salvo in a roller-coaster legal fight that has lasted for several years. Mr. Lindberg was sent to federal prison in 2020 on charges related to the bribing of a public official before a federal appeals court in June overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial. The additional charges revealed Friday are separate from that coming trial.

☆ NatWest CEO to face UK lawmakers on savings rates after U-turn
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - NatWest (NWG.L) CEO Alison Rose will face a grilling by British lawmakers next Tuesday over whether lenders are passing on enough of central bank interest rate rises to consumers, after initially saying she was too busy to attend. "Following further discussions with the Treasury Committee on the vital issues at hand, Alison Rose will be attending next week's Committee hearing," a spokesperson for NatWest said. Lloyds boss Charlie Nunn and executives from Barclays and HSBC are also set to attend the hearing held by the powerful Treasury Select Committee next week. NatWest had initially said its retail bank boss David Lindberg was an appropriate boss to represent the bank at the hearing. Reporting by Iain Withers; Editing by Kirsten DonovanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Top Executive For Financier Greg Lindberg Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Insurance Fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Greg Lindberg, who is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, also faces bribery charges in North Carolina. A former top lieutenant of North Carolina insurance mogul Greg Lindberg agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal conspiracy charge. The plea is the latest episode in prosecutors’ pursuit of Mr. Lindberg and his associates, a saga that has had many twists. The guilty plea indicates that prosecutors are continuing with their investigation and could be seeking a second indictment of Mr. Lindberg.

☆ Top Executive for Financier Greg Lindberg Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Insurance Fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Clinics offer free vasectomies, citing a surge in demand
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Sixty vasectomies will be offered over three days in and outside Planned Parenthood clinics in St. Louis, Springfield and Joplin to uninsured patients during the first week of November amid what the clinics say is a surge in demand for the procedure. Guarin also plans to offer discounted vasectomies that month at his regular clinic in the Des Moines area. Guarin, who serves on the medical advisory board for the World Vasectomy Day, helped offer vasectomies last year at the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis to raise awareness about the procedure. In July alone, the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri performed 42 vasectomies, compared to 10 in the same month last year. Dr. Margaret Baum, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, will be partnering with Guarin to provide the free vasectomies.

☆ Low-price grocers like Aldi are winning as consumers trade down
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN Business —With grocery prices soaring, consumers are changing the way they shop for food. “Inflation is hitting everyone.”More consumers are additionally switching over to store brands, also called “private label,” which are often comparable in quality and lower in price. “I don’t think you can underestimate the strength of all these private label offerings,” said Heather Lalley, editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business, a trade publication. “Now we’re seeing other retailers trying to emulate them.”In September, for example, Kroger (KR) announced a new budget private label brand called Smartway, which consolidates some of its other private label brands under one umbrella. Aldi, for one, is rolling out a new tagline to explain what it’s all about: It’s An Aldi Thing.

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