The Best Streaming Services for Busy Professionals
LIFE FOR A BUSY professional is complicated. It can be hard to carve out time in the evenings to watch TV, especially in real-time. Luckily, streaming services make it a lot easier to watch TV on your own schedule, especially with features such as on-demand content and digital video recorders to help you have more control over when […]
Places to Find Inexpensive Workout Equipment
THE BENEFITS OF exercise are numerous: It improves your physical condition, boosts your self-confidence, reduces your long-term health care costs and improves your thinking. For many, however, the routine of going to the gym for exercise is an expensive one. The cost of gym membership at even the most inexpensive gyms adds up to hundreds of dollars per […]
Are You Guilty of These Bad Money Habits?
DO YOU KEEP TELLING yourself, “I’ll figure it out later”? Do you constantly make little purchases, telling yourself they don’t count? These are just a few examples of common – and risky – behaviors that can damage your financial health. Nearly everyone has bad habits when it comes to their money. But the key to managing your […]
When Is a Cash-Out Refinance Loan a Good Idea?
In a cash-out refinance mortgage, you take a loan against your home in excess of what you owe, leaving you with cash available to spend. Adding to the debt against your home could be a smart move if the cash is used for the right purpose. Using it for the wrong purpose, however, could lead […]
Help Wanted: Overseers for Social Security and Medicare
Key posts overseeing financial health of Social Security and Medicare go unfilled as problems worsen. WASHINGTON — Key posts overseeing the financial health of Social Security and Medicare have been vacant for more than three years. That leaves the programs without independent accountability in the face of dire predictions about approaching insolvency. These days Washington […]
Facebook exec to Instagram
Facebook has named Adam Mosseri, a 10-year veteran at the company, as the head of Instagram. The appointment comes after the photo-sharing app’s co-founders resigned last week without giving a clear reason. Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO, and Mike Krieger, its other co-founder, announced Mosseri’s appointment Monday on the company blog. Mosseri was named as Instagram’s […]
Boon for online shoppers?
Canadian shoppers who like to buy products from the U.S. online have reason to rejoice about the revised NAFTA deal, but some homegrown retailers could be in for a struggle, say experts. Under the renegotiated agreement, Canada may increase the value of product consumers can buy online without being forced to pay import duties or […]
Musk settles, Tesla rebounds
Tesla made its biggest gain in five years Monday after company founder Elon Musk reached a settlement with securities regulators that will allow him to stay on as CEO of the electric car maker. That marked a big reversal from Friday’s plunge, the worst day for the stock in almost as long. Under a settlement […]
Virtual reality harnessed by remote Indigenous teens to make leap from comic to Future Dreaming film
Four Indigenous teenagers, inspired by their remote community home in WA’s Pilbara, are using their school holidays to create a futuristic world with a new virtual reality film titled Future Dreaming. Alison Lockyer, Maverick Eaton, Nelson and Max Coppin from Roebourne are no strangers to technology. When they were just 10 and 11 years old, […]
Pliable micro-batteries for wearables
There is a new technology gripping the markets of the future – technology to wear. Wearables, as they are known, are portable systems that contain sensors to collect measurement data from our bodies. Powering these sensors without wires calls for pliable batteries that can adapt to the specific material and deliver the power the system […]