How To Write A Personal Check
In today’s era of Venmo and Zelle, where you can transfer money to your friends with the press of a few buttons, personal checks can feel very antiquated. And they are! But some people, and companies, still require you to write them a check. Just the other day, we had to write a check to […]
2 Investing Tricks to Double Your Money
Wall Street loves to overcomplicate the process of investing. Throw enough arcane financial terms at a soon-to-be-retiree, ask them to choose between “variable annuities” and “covered call options,” or artificially segment their investing strategies into growth, value, and income holdings and chances are you will confuse your client so thoroughly that they will happily hand […]
What factors determine your credit score?
While most Americans have a credit score that is generally considered “good,” it may be helpful for those looking to raise their rating to know exactly which factors agencies use to calculate it. According to Experian, the average FICO score in the second quarter of 2019 was 703, though scores tended to vary by age. […]
This is the No. 1 Reason for Overspending Among Older Households
Overspending is a common problem for seniors. In fact, a recent study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that while average spending among single retired individuals was $5,000 below household income, median spending exceeded median income by $3,000. Unfortunately, seniors generally aren’t overspending on extravagant trips or spoiling grandkids. Instead, when they spend more than their […]
RCS messaging comes to Windows 10’s Your Phone app
Starting with the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S20. When Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 phones make their way to stores early next month, they’ll be able to relay RCS messages to Windows 10 PCs. It’s all thanks to Microsoft’s Your Phone app, which the company is updating to enable it to send and receive RCS texts when […]
You can make your own rotary cellphone
Modern tech meets vintage dialing. As convenient as modern cellphones are, there’s a certain charm to spinning an old-fashioned rotary dial to make a call — and now, there’s a cellphone that caters to that nostalgia. Brookhaven National Lab engineer Justine Haupt has developed a rotary cellphone that’s not only functional, but available to make […]
SpaceX lost another Falcon booster to the sea
But it did successfully launch its fifth batch of Starlink internet satellites. This morning, at 10:05AM ET, SpaceX successfully launched its fifth batch of Starlink internet satellites via a Falcon 9 rocket. Unfortunately, it did not manage to land the rocket’s booster as planned. The booster was expected to land on a drone ship, called […]
Microsoft releases its unified Office app for Android
Don’t expect it to run well on your tablet. Microsoft has followed through on its promise of a unified Office mobile app — for some people, anyway. Following months of beta testing, the company has released the all-in-one productivity app for Android phone users. Like before, this lets you edit Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents […]
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Just Decided That it Needs BlackBerry (TSX:BB)
With a $1 trillion valuation, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the largest companies in history. Its founder, Jeff Bezos, is the richest person on the planet. Yet Amazon isn’t capable of doing everything. In recent weeks, the company teamed up with BlackBerry (TSX:BB)(NYSE:BB) to co-launch a technology suite for autonomous vehicles. According to a joint press release, the platform enables […]
Aurora Cannabis (TSX:ACB) Stock Could Triple in an Upside Correction
Many investors see Aurora Cannabis (TSX:ACB)(NYSE:ACB) stock as dead money. The name has been in free fall mode for nearly a year, the ominous triple-bottom pattern came to fruition (and could imply further downside), the sell-the-news, post-legalization scenario panned out as I predicted, and substantial ground has been lost to Aurora’s top competitor in Canopy Growth. With shares […]