Taking the Temp

In Buzz, December 2023/January 2024 by Lauren Kruchten1 Comment

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Raleigh City Council approved a $3.1 million bid award to install a total of five digital signs at Red Hat Amphitheater, Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts and the Raleigh Convention Center.

Go on, catch those extra Z’s! A new study shows hitting your snooze button actually has no impact on sleep quality, and snoozing multiple times over 30 minutes may even spark alertness.

Work from the park? Dix Park Conservancy received a generous grant from Google to create and install Wi-Fi-enabled benches. 

Hold onto your Bibles. Pending gambling, marijuana and alcohol legislation are likely to resurface during the 2024 NC legislative “sin session.” 

Dating apps aren’t just for hookups. In fact, a recent study revealed 70% of couples who met via the likes of Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, etc., swiped an exclusive romantic relationship.

Cash… doesn’t rule everything around us? A study by Casino Canada revealed NC will likely be one of the first states to go cashless. 

NC Attorney General Josh Stein is among a group of AGs who filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram are “harmful to young people and designed to be addictive.” Er… do it for the ’Gram?! 

“Hope this email does not find you well.” … New Carolina was found to have the eighth crankiest co-workers in the country by Gambling.com (!).

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  1. The Wi-Fi-enabled benches in Dix Park caught my attention because free connectivity in public spaces sounds great until you consider how quickly “convenient” becomes “expected,” potentially shifting costs onto taxpayers once grant money runs out. It’s a small example of how urban amenities quietly reshape what residents come to rely on, a pattern I noticed while reading about digital payment adoption at https://paysafecardcasino24.de where similar questions about access and dependency come up. The bigger question might be who maintains these things years down the line.

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