How Buying a Home Might Impact Your Career
Homeownership has long been synonymous with the American Dream, and while it does have its drawbacks, there are plenty of benefits to owning a home. First, you get to build equity in a place of your own, as opposed to throwing money away on rent. You also get an opportunity to capitalize on certain tax […]
Making the most of your 401(k)
Your New Year’s resolution is to get serious about saving for retirement in my 401(k). Here’s some advice. Review your 401(k) elections to make sure you’re making the most of your plan. For example, contribution limits for 401(k)s increased by $500 this year. So if you’ve set up your contributions for a fixed-dollar sum, don’t […]
Married and Not Working? You Can Still Save for Retirement
Most people believe that you have to be earning income to contribute to a retirement account, and that’s true if you’re single. But a loophole for married couples allows both individuals to save for retirement, even if only one is working. It’s called a spousal IRA, and it can boost your retirement savings and can […]
Is Coffee Your Ticket to a Raise or Promotion?
If your goal this year is to snag a raise or land a promotion, you’re probably aware that there are certain steps you can take to improve your odds. Maybe you’ll volunteer for some new projects, or take a course that boosts your skills. Or maybe you’ll be that person to consistently burn the midnight […]
Illinois biometric privacy law passes a key court test
Six Flags argued that fingerprinting without asking was legal in one case. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act just withstood a major challenge. The state’s Supreme Court has returned a BIPA dispute back to circuit courts after rejecting claims that would have significantly limited the law’s reach. Six Flags had fingerprinted a 14-year-old guest without his […]
Trolls threaten laid off reporters in coordinated online campaign
They even targeted PayPal. Unfortunately, sustained online harassment campaigns are still a reality. NBC News has learned that trolls have launched a coordinated threat campaign against BuzzFeed and Huffington Post (owned by Engadget parent Verizon) journalists recently let go as part of layoffs. They appear to have originated from 4chan and used the same far-right […]
Microsoft and MIT can detect AI ‘blind spots’ in self-driving cars
Your autonomous car might avoid dangerous mistakes. Self-driving cars are still prone to making mistakes, in part because the AI training can only account for so many situations. Microsoft and MIT might just fill in those gaps in knowledge — they’ve developed a model that can catch these virtual “blind spots,” as MIT describes them. The approach has […]
Blue Origin starts building the factory for New Glenn’s engines
Work on BE-4 should be finished later in 2019. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket just became more tangible. The company has officially started construction on a factory in Huntsville, Alabama that will produce the BE-4 engines powering both New Glenn and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur. It’ll also make the BE-3U engines used for New […]
Apple earnings: Where does Apple go from here?
With iPhone sales flagging, Apple needs a big new offering to excite its base Apple’s coming earnings report could be the first chapter in an increasingly boring story. There’s less drama than usual going into the smartphone maker’s fiscal first-quarter report on Jan. 29, given that Apple warned at the beginning of the year that […]
AMD earnings: Will the ‘crypto hangover’ lift before new product launches?
AMD’s forecast for the fourth quarter came in light because of a sharp drop-off in graphics cards sales to crypto miners Advanced Micro Devices Inc. needs graphics card sales to be meaningful for an earnings surprise, but many analysts expect blockchain-related inventory problems to persist as the chip maker ramps up for its new line […]