How to convince your boss to ditch the old tech

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Tightening purse strings often means older hardware stays in commission for longer than originally intended, because if it isn't broken, it doesn't need to be replaced. Which might be true for a bicycle, but today's technology is leaps and bounds ahead of yesterday's, and hanging on to legacy equipment could actually be costing you money. Aberdeen Strategy & Research share their data to help you explain how outdated technology is holding your company back so you can make a strong case for upgrades. [It's So Old It's Vintage]( [IT staffing in a recreational legal world]( Sometimes the world changes faster than we can adjust to the changes. In more than a third of the states in America, recreational cannabis has been legalized. This wasn't always the case, and some companies require a drug test as part of the hiring process. P.Vee is looking to the community to see how your organizations handle this issue. What advice do you have? Is there a best practice for this sort of thing? 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Someone dumped their garbage in a local park. "Garbage" as in enough uncooked pasta to feed more than 3000 people. [What is entanglement and why is it important?]( Caltech Science Exchange The folks at Caltech do a pretty good job of explaining how (and why) when two particles become entangled, they remain connected even when separated by vast distances. [REGAN Vest: Inside Denmark's secret nuclear bunker]( BBC Travel A new museum opened up about 400 kilometers north-west of Copenhagen. What makes this one different is it is 60 meters underground, and it used to be a top secret military bunker built during the Cold War. [Peanut butter is a liquid – the physics of this and other unexpected fluids]( The Conversation Arguing if a hotdog is a sandwich or not is understandable. Declaring peanut butter a liquid, when it's clearly a solid? That's nonsense. Except that the US Transportation Security Administration says it's a liquid. And apparently, so does Newtonian physics. 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