Google Wants To Know What To Do With Your Gmail After You're Dead
Google has launched a new service to help its users make an online will that dictates what happens to their data after they die - either permanently deleting it, or passing it on to loved ones as a...
View ArticleGuy Spent $11,000 On A Coding 'Bootcamp' And Doubled His Salary
Learn to write software in 9 weeks? New coding boot camps promise to launch tech careersSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but...
View ArticlePrem Watsa Sticks With His $700 Million Bet On BlackBerry
The largest investor in RIM is sticking with the company despite the founder's exitTORONTO (AP) — The largest investor in Research In Motion said Thursday that he will stick with the BlackBerry company...
View ArticleBugatti's $2.6 Million Convertible Has Set A New Speed Record
The week hasn’t been good for Bugatti.It started off with its Veyron Super Sport being stripped of its production car land speed record by the officials at Guinness World Records due to the version of...
View ArticleThe Single Most Important Life Lesson Old People Say You Need To Know
Karl Pillemer of Cornell University interviewed nearly 1500 people age 70 to 100+ for his book “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.” He asked them what life lessons...
View ArticleShakespeare Was A Surprisingly Ruthless Investor And Profiteer
Even the master of literature had to fund his passion somehow.Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales are calling attention to Shakespeare’s lesser-known ventures, which they say have been...
View ArticleDelaware Could Soon Be The 10th State To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Lawmakers in Delaware announced a bill Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage.If approved, Delaware would become the 10th US State to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, AP reported.Democrat...
View ArticleThe Taliban Is Using US Tax Dollars To Kill American Soldiers In Afghanistan
First the Government Accountability Office found that more than $500 billion in Afghanistan war spending would be squandered without a long-term financial commitment from the United States.Then the...
View Article8 Habits That Are Making Your Work Life Harder
If you get decent value from making to-do lists, you'll get huge returns—in productivity, in improved relationships, and in your personal well-being—from adding these items to your not to-do list:Every...
View ArticleSay Goodbye To Arctic Summer Ice
By the time today's babies graduate college, there's a very good chance they could celebrate with a cruise across the North Pole.That's according to the latest study on Arctic summer sea ice, the...
View ArticleNearly Half Of American Women Fear Turning Into 'Bag Ladies'
If one of your biggest fears is that some day you may become a “bag lady,” know that you’re not alone.In fact, according to a new survey from Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, almost...
View ArticleHere's Your Ultimate Guide To The 2016 Presidential Race
We could spend some time handicapping the nominees, an exercise as fun as it is pointless, or we could spend some time figuring out what people's support of various 2016 contenders (and supposed...
View ArticleIn A Perfect World, No One Would Be Excited To Get A Tax Refund
According to surveys and IRS data, approximately 59% of Americans are expecting to receive a tax refund this year, with an average refund amount of $2,894. This means many tax payers are letting their...
View ArticleGOLDMAN: Here Are The 3 Reasons Why We'll See A Sharp Reduction In The Deficit
Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs had some interesting commentary on the deficit the other day. You’ll recognize the sectoral balances chart in his work as he’s one of the few analysts on Wall Street who...
View ArticleThere Is A Massive Loophole In The Senate Compromise On Gun Background Checks
The bipartisan Senate compromise on background checks appears to suffer from a crucial flaw that could reduce its effectiveness, experts and gun control advocates fear, although they broadly say it’s...
View ArticleDangerous Brazilian Town Is Now Safer Because Of Music
SÃO PAULO, BRAZILClaudio Miranda never let having little stop him from dreaming big.He was raised by immigrant parents in the favela (squatter settlement) Jardim Ângela in São Paulo, Brazil, which –...
View ArticleMeet The Man Trying To Unseat The Chavez Regime In This Weekend's Venezuelan...
With his baseball cap in Venezuela's colors, opposition leader Henrique Capriles is a young governor running for president for the second time in six months, vowing change after 14 years under Hugo...
View ArticleMAULDIN: There's A Huge Problem With Our Deficit Forecasts — They Assume A...
An engineer, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on a deserted island. They are starving, when miraculously they find a box filled with canned food. What to do? They consider the problem, bringing...
View ArticleOur Immigration Policy Is A National Disaster — Time To Open The Doors!
ON APRIL 19th Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, is due to visit a new factory being built in his state by Bloom Energy, a start-up based in Silicon Valley. Bloom makes clean power-generation...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From Sweden's Inequality Lessons
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — As recently as the early 1990s, the idea that Sweden could be a model of anything except socialism gone awry would have been laughable.Sweden's debt-to-GDP was staggering when...
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