Weekly Market Review: May 26, 2019
Stock Markets The fact that US stocks finished the week lower seems to weigh on concerns that U.S. trade tensions with China are expected to be prolonged. The broad sentiment across economic reports suggest that global growth is showing signs of slowing. Lower oil prices pushed energy stocks down, but utilities came back to lead […]
Microsoft AI creates realistic speech with little training
It works in part like the human brain. Text-to-speech conversion is becoming increasingly clever, but there’s a problem: it can still take plenty of training time and resources to produce natural-sounding output. Microsoft and Chinese researchers might have a more effective way. They’ve crafted a text-to-speech AI that can generate realistic speech using just 200 […]
The Surprising Reason Younger Workers Aren’t Saving for Retirement
Setting funds aside for retirement isn’t a directive aimed solely at older workers. Quite the contrary: Younger workers are also advised to contribute steadily to their IRAs or 401(k)s to give their money the maximum time to grow. Unfortunately, younger adults have a knack for making excuses as to why they’re not saving. Some blame […]
Do This to Unlock Career Opportunities
Opportunity isn’t always linear. Sure, sometimes you move up or advance your career based on working hard, waiting patiently, and being the next person in line. In many cases, however, the best chances and opportunities come to people who put themselves in a position to succeed. That means doing one simple thing: saying “yes” as […]
Social Security and Medicare: Follow the cash to see how healthy they are
At last! A cause for celebration. Feel free to dance in the streets. April 22 was a great day for people hoping to live beyond 2034. The Social Security Trustees 2019 report told us that the program would remain solvent through 2035. That’s an entire additional year! Glass-half-full types such as Nancy Altman, president of […]
Here’s how much a financial advisor costs
A financial advisor can help you manage your spending, savings, and investments more effectively, but of course, they’ll charge you for it. And it could be worth the cost if you want to create a comprehensive budget or savings strategy, or if you’re too overwhelmed or confused by your money to plan for retirement or […]
ARM’s latest chip designs promise 60 percent faster AI on phones
You can also expect faster graphics. ARM isn’t boasting about PC-crushing performance like it did in 2018, but it still has plenty of swagger going into Computex 2019. The designer has unveiled two new chip architectures that promise giant strides in performance, especially for AI. The Mali-G77 GPU touts 40 percent faster overall graphics than […]
NVIDIA is bringing pro-level Quadro RTX GPUs to laptops
The Quadro RTX 5000 series is now available in mobile form. NVIDIA has succeeded in shrinking its beefy Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware in order to bring it to laptops. The silicon offers 3,072 CUDA cores and 48 RT cores, paired with 384 Tensor cores and 16GB GDDR6 RAM, same as the version available for […]
ASUS’ latest WiFi 6 router looks appallingly normal
But don’t be fooled by its looks. When you look up WiFi 6 routers, you tend to end up with a bunch of nightmare-inducing designs that resemble gigantic dead spiders. Luckily, brands like Netgear and TP-Link have shown that such products can don a more humble outfit, and ASUS is finally following suit for this […]
Stocks to Watch: Ameri Holdings, Inc. (AMRH) and Aphria Inc. (APHA) in the spotlight
The price of AMERI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRH) went up by $0.01 now trading at $0.3. Their shares witnessed a 100% increase from the 52-week low price of $0.15 they recorded on 2018-12-21. Even though it is still -830% behind the $2.79 high touched on 2018-06-05. The last few days have been good for the stock, […]