Students learn personal finance
Charlotte Stewart’s Personal Finance Class at Tug Valley High School has completed a 10-week simulation with H&R Block. The H&R Budget Challenge is a personal finance simulation played in real time over a 10-week period. Students receive paychecks and bills in real time and are challenged to build a budget that allows them to pay […]
Why a vibrant stock market matters
It has often been observed that capital is the mother’s milk of business. The story of American prosperity is also the story of the world’s deepest and most liquid capital markets. Today we look in particular at the market for equity capital (stocks). Stock markets serve two critical objectives: to raise funds from outside investors, […]
How Do Americans Feel About Their Morning Commutes?
Very few people enjoy commuting. It’s time spent in a car, maybe in traffic, accomplishing nothing. In fact, commutes not only cost us time, but they also cost us money: The average commuter wastes 42 hours each year sitting in traffic, which costs $1,400 in gas, according to data provided by Driving-tests.org. There’s a physical […]
Saving money: Choosing between a savings and money market account
You’ve heard of savings accounts and money market accounts. Which one should you choose? Savings accounts are great for when you want to put away your money but still want relatively easy access. It’s not a checking account — that’s used for everyday transactions. The idea is to save your money. And keep it in […]
Google is making it easier to build Android apps on a Chromebook
Maybe this will help developers write Android apps that work better on big screens. At I/O last year, Google announced it was adding Linux support to Chrome OS, a move that made it a lot easier for web and Android developers to use Chromebooks. One year later, the company says that more than half of […]
MIT AI model is ‘significantly’ better at predicting breast cancer
The model can find breast cancer earlier and eliminates racial disparities in screening. MIT researchers have invented a new AI-driven way of looking at mammograms that can help detect breast cancer in women up to five years in advance. A deep learning model created by a team of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial […]
Android Pie hits 10 percent adoption two months ahead of its ancestors
Google’s efforts to improve updates have had modest success. Google left people in the dark regarding Android Pie’s adoption for more than half a year, but it’s finally lifting the curtain — and Pie is doing better than its predecessors. Updated stats supplied to VentureBeat show that 10.4 percent of active users were using Pie […]
Google trains its AI to accommodate speech impairments
This could help people with conditions like ALS communicate via voice assistants. For most users, voice assistants are helpful tools. But for the millions of people with speech impairments caused by neurological conditions, voice assistants can be yet another frustrating challenge. Google wants to change that. At its I/O developer conference today, Google revealed that […]
Stocks to Watch: American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC) and Polarityte, Inc. (PTE) on the Marquee
The price of American Outdoor Brands Corporation (NASDAQ:AOBC) went up by $0.01 now trading at $9.86. Their shares witnessed a 9.19% increase from the 52-week low price of $9.03 they recorded on 2019-04-03. Even though it is still -61.76% behind the $15.95 high touched on 2018-09-19. The last few days have been rough for the […]
Stocks to Watch: Columbia Property Trust, Inc. (CXP) and Kingold Jewelry, Inc. (KGJI) in the spotlight
The price of Columbia Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE:CXP) went up by $0.06 now trading at $22.62. Their shares witnessed a 25.11% increase from the 52-week low price of $18.08 they recorded on 2018-12-26. Even though it is still -10.83% behind the $25.07 high touched on 2018-09-06. The last few days have been good for the […]