Technology

Technology helps 401(k) plan participants by improving retirement plan outcomes.  Retirement plan participant engagement is up, thanks to investments retirement plan providers have made in technology.  This is evidenced by improvements seen in email, digital savings tools, and online content such as videos, webinars, and articles.  That’s according to research from Cerulli Associates, cited recently in InvestmentNews.  A quarter of plan participants now prefer to receive 401(k) account information via email, up from 9% in 2020.  And, 86% said digital savings tools and calculators offered on the provider’s website are very or somewhat helpful, up from 77%, according to the report.  Around three-quarters of participants said digital content like articles, videos, and webinars ...

By Noah Syken, Vice President of Sports and Entertainment Partnerships, IBMIn 1992, I was a senior at the University of Miami, enjoying my last semester before graduation and basking in the glow of the Miami Hurricanes' national college football championship. I was 22 years old and not terribly concerned with the world outside of Florida.But around that same time a series of events were taking place that would have a profound effect on my future: Tim Berners-Lee had just invented something called the World Wide Web and IBM had just signed its first contract to be the technology partner of the US Open tennis championship.I share this history because today — some 30 years later —I work at IBM, and my team develops and delivers the digital experience of the...

By Sarah Calams FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas police officers are crediting a camera system for helping them identify and find potential suspects. The Fort Worth Police Department is using the Flock camera system to scan license plates to track down potential suspects and solve crimes, Fox4News.com reported. Over the weekend, the department received an alert from the system notifying them of a vehicle linked to an aggravated assault. The driver was later arrested, according to police. “Flock cameras a...

Over the summer, University President Peter Salovey created multiple new leadership roles, including a new position on his cabinet — vice president for information technology — supporting Yale’s commitment to “equipping members of our community with the necessary digital resources to teach, learn, and pursue new knowledge and solutions for pressing global challenge.” Sarah Cook 12:47 am, Sep 06, 2022 Staff Rep...

VOLGA, S.D. (KELO)– At South Dakota State University, the use of drones is not a new concept. However, the curriculum is growing, and researchers are working on ways to collect more data sooner so that the data can be used by farmers to assess things like crop diseases, water stress, nutrient deficiency and more. Student parking at Sioux Falls Schools “It’s kind of very exciting because normally we use moderate resolution or like low resolution satellite data so you can not see too much of the data quality is not that good, but with the drone you can really collect very good spatial resolution data,” Ph. D student Shahid Nawaz Khan said. “I think this is like very important for precision agriculture, like farmers, producers, trying to apply at a specific amount of...