Investing in gold can give you a hedge against inflation since the precious metal maintains value during corrections and crashes. Gold can rally even when stocks and real estate fall, but just like any other asset, it comes with risks. While many investors own stocks simply because they’re easy to purchase, gold investments have a […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, and other Meta execs thought that TikTok was beating Meta at its own game. That’s according to a new filing in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, published on Monday. The document, dated February 2022, includes conversations among a number of Meta […]
Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep seafloor, according to a new study. That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island. The report, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, arrives as nations debate whether to pursue industrial mining of the seabed for critical […]
Apple is looking at adding AI search engines from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic into Safari, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, made the statement during his testimony in the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet. Cue’s disclosure was part of his testimony regarding Apple and Google’s estimated $20 billion-a-year […]
Getting extra cash has never been easy, but it can be particularly hard in retirement. There is one area, though, where many retirees have a big advantage over their younger peers: access to a big, golden nest egg in the form of their home. Even better, recent economic shifts (including rising home prices) have boosted […]
As companies navigate a tariff tsunami and reshoring renaissance, they are finding new tools and strategies—some AI-powered—to manage the challenge. The drive to globalize that began in the years after World War II has reached an inflection point. President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff plans have triggered a chain reaction that will have enduring repercussions for […]
Trump’s pause of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has left companies confused and cast doubt on US leadership of anti-corruption efforts. When President Donald Trump rolled back the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) just three weeks after his inauguration, decades of anti-bribery enforcement seemingly came to a halt. However, it quickly became apparent that government […]
The Real ID deadline has officially arrived. Starting today, you’ll need a Real ID-compliant driver’s license or ID card to board a domestic flight. For years, the U.S. government has warned that domestic air travel would eventually require a Real ID — without one, travelers would risk delays or be denied boarding altogether. However, Homeland […]
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has some advice for cardinals who are about to experience their first conclave. “Bring a book,” he said in an interview on Tuesday afternoon, as the cardinals packed their bags to move into Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican City guesthouse where scores of cardinals stay during the conclave, […]
Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year. ServiceNow said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Data.World, a cloud-native data catalog and data governance platform. Austin, Texas-based Data.World was founded in 2015, and previously raised more than $130 million in venture financing from firms such as […]