Tag: Personal Finance – Career & Education
Hitting the Books: What the ‘Work from Home’ revolution means for those who can’t
The COVID-19 pandemic changed how we live, how we work, how we get from where we live to where we work or even if we have to leave where we live to get to where we work. But the number of workers that have had their commutes shortened from 45…
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Niantic’s Campfire app will finally let ‘Pokémon Go’ players chat together
Move over Discord, Niantic has its own messaging solution in mind for Pokémon Go players: a social AR app called Campfire. It’ll let you organize for events, discover new locations and share content with other players. Think of it like a hyper-local social network built entirely for AR—it’s “the ‘homepage’…
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Hitting the Books: How winning the lottery is a lot like being re-struck by lightning
A wise man once said, "never tell me the odds" but whether you're calculating the chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field (3,720:1), shouting "Shazam" and having it work twice in a row (9 million:1), or winning the state lottery (42 million:1 in California), probabilities influence outcomes in our daily…
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Hitting the Books: Why we need to treat the robots of tomorrow like tools
Do not be swayed by the dulcet dial-tones of tomorrow's AIs and their siren songs of the singularity. No matter how closely artificial intelligences and androids may come to look and act like humans, they'll never actually be humans, argue Paul Leonardi, Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at University…
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How to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets
You're probably used to sorting your garbage into bins: green for paper or blue for plastic and glass. But when it comes to electronics, we're still used to selling those off or tossing them into the trash heap. Unfortunately, our gadget addiction has real consequences for the planet, making it…
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What we bought: Echelon’s Connect Sport bike pairs well with Apple Fitness+
To say the pandemic threw off my exercise routine would be an understatement. I was a gym regular who thrived on treadmills and weight machines, and I suddenly had to improvise with pushups and runs. I struggled to maintain a routine, and for a while gave up entirely. How was…
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