Robots really are coming for your job. At least if you’re an investment advisor. Over the past decade, a new type of financial advisor has emerged to compete with traditional investment advisory firms. These robo-advisors began as startups backed by…
You’ve gotten involved in cryptocurrencies. You know that, in general, volatility in this type of asset tends to be higher than most. Now you’re realizing that the trend of increased volatility during the COVID pandemic is even more marked in…
My husband and I own a 12-person design firm and, like thousands of other small-business owners in 2020, we had to make big changes in the way we worked. Our new normal involved sending our employees home for six weeks…
Could you go an entire day without using your smartphone? What about a whole weekend? Do you remember what you did with your spare time before you had your phone attached to your hand 24/7? If your answer to any…
Earlier this month, I flicked on the lights in my bathroom and sighed as one of the bulbs over the sink failed to blink on. As I made what feels like a yearly trek to my local home improvement store…
So you’ve hopped on the minimalism train. You’ve KonMari’d your house, Swedish death-cleaned, downsized, and pared down your kids’ toys to the bare minimum. You’re done, right? Not so fast. There’s also your inbox, which has about 20,000 emails in…
In November 2008, an anonymous author using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto issued the white paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” which outlined “a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust.” This system, known as blockchain, became the basis…
Social media use is exploding. Facebook has more than a billion global users, with Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn boasting hundreds of millions of active accounts. From preteens to senior citizens, every major age group is plugged in, whether they’re engaged in social…
Technology has made huge strides in the last couple of decades. Thanks to new electronic gadgets, you can now store your whole music collection in a machine the size of a single cassette tape, snap hundreds of photos without ever…
In the children’s tale “Hansel and Gretel,” the two titular children leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way out of the forest and back home. And when you’re shopping in certain stores, you might be leaving your own little breadcrumbs…
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