Maybe you haven’t quite hit the six-figure salary bracket just yet but you’ve got a retirement plan and set up a brokerage account. Hiring a financial advisor to track it all might be out of your price range, but with new sites like Future Advisor, you might not have to. The main web application, which…
A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the telephone metadata collection program, under which the National Security Agency gathers up millions of phone records on an ongoing daily basis, is illegal under the Patriot Act. The government has argued it has the power to carry forward with the program under a section of the…
Microsoft launched a cool new tool for flattering — or offending — anyone with a few free minutes to kill. Upload a selfie or type your name into the search bar at how-old.net to do Bing image search, and Microsoft’s “How Old Do I Look?” tool takes a stab at guessing your age and gender.…
The FBI says it wants a golden key to access Americans’ phones. Now, politicians are pushing back. A top FBI official, Amy S. Hess, said at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday that encryption of phone data is limiting the FBI’s ability to spy on communication. She said law enforcement needs a way to…
Humans may be able to communicate positive emotions like happiness through the smell of our sweat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research indicates that we produce chemical compounds, or chemosignals, when we experience happiness that are detectable by others who smell our sweat.…
So, which airline has the lowest customer satisfaction? According to certain reports, Spirit Airlines ranked dead last in the latest travel report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). I have to say however that my personal experience with US Airways (now merged with American Airlines) has been less than expected. In short all airlines are…
Is Microsoft on the Verge of a Communications Revolution with Skype? You wouldn’t know it if you looked at it, but Skype with the help of thousands of programmers at Microsoft, may be on the cusp of transforming human communications as we know it. How so, you ask? Well, for starters, when was the last…
It seems that economy is changing…and markets adjusting to new financial movement. For home buyers in northern California, speed is the name of the game. From the top 10 fastest-moving housing markets, 8 are located in California, with San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland taking the top three spots, according to a report from Trulia. At…
So your tax refund arrived (or is on its way). How will you spend it? Consider investing. The typical tax refund is $2,800. After you pay some bills, buy your next vacation flights or eat that steak dinner (medium rare, please), you could have about $1,000 left to spend freely. Investing is the time-tested way…
Google is consistently rated the best place to work. So you need a degree from Harvard to get in the door, right? Not really, according to Laszlo Bock, Google’s Head of People Operations. When the company was small, Google cared a lot about getting kids from Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. But Bock said it was…