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According to new research conducted by Tom Fangyun Tan of the Cox Business School at Southern Methodist University and Serguei Netessine of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, tabletop technology is likely to improve sales by 1% per check and reduce meal duration by 10%. The combination of these two effects increase the sales per minute or sales productivity by 11%.

We've all been there...you're out to eat and in need of a refill or the check and the wait staff is nowhere to be found. Now, a recent study shows that adding a tabletop device can improve restaurant services and increase revenues.

Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat of California, became the latest presidential candidate to tout a student-debt forgiveness proposal, when she announced the plan over the weekend as part of a broader proposal to invest in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and black entrepreneurs.

Districts across the country have faced pressure from families and community members to shift school start times so that high school students can start school later.. With pediatricians recommending that adolescents get more sleep and some emerging research showing that shifting times can improve learning outcomes, proponents of delaying school days for teens have made a strong case for such changes.

CBS earlier this week went dark across AT&T's U-verse and DirecTV services, days after the seven-year contract between the two companies expired. As the two couldn't come to new terms, CBS and its related channels -- including CBSN, CBS Sports and The Smithsonian Channel -- were blacked out.