MARCH 11, 2024
The Indian Navy’s aircraft carriers, the Russian-origin INS Vikramaditya and the indigenous INS Vikrant, were on display during the first week of March as part of the Navy's Commanders' Conference as per images by the Ministry of Defense on March 9, 2024. India demonstrated its two aircraft carriers operating together amid a complex geopolitical environment in the...
MARCH 7, 2024
Grace Lucchese and Mickey Ricard scored a low mortgage interest rate for the house outside Boston they bought in January. Courtesy of Grace Lucchese
Grace Lucchese and Mickey Ricard bought a home with a 2.6% interest rate via an assumable mortgage.
The lower mortgage rate is saving the couple more than $2,000 each month.
The couple said...
MARCH 6, 2024
OpenAI, in a bristling response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company, accused the billionaire of rewriting history, publishing a blog post with old emails allegedly showing that the billionaire lobbied for control over the start-up and attempted to merge it with Tesla, his car company.
Musk sued OpenAI last week in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging the...
MARCH 5, 2024
Facebook, Instagram and Messenger have gone down in what appears to be a huge outage at parent company Meta.
Users found themselves unable to load the apps or websites as normal. On Facebook, affected users found they had been logged out and were unable to get on, while Instagram refused to work at all.
The warnings about being logged...
Business
This Social Security Spousal Rule Is Officially Finished in 2024 — But These 3 Strategies Remain
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
A Social Security spousal rule that has been around for decades officially ends this year for everyone except those who turned 70 on Jan. 1, 2024. The rule allows recipients to switch between their benefits and their spouse’s to receive the maximum amount. But unless you were born before Jan. 1, 1954, you won’t be able to...
Business
The Great Cashout—Jeff Bezos, Leon Black, Jamie Dimon, and the Walton family have now sold a combined $11 billion in company stock this month— some for the first time...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sold $1.2 billion in stock past four months. - LUDOVIC MARIN-AFP via Getty Images
High-profile CEOs, founders, and heirs are selling stock by the bucketload in the companies that made them billionaires. For nearly the entire bunch, shares prices are trading near all-time-highs.
Jeff Bezos sold Amazon shares worth $8.5 billion in multiple transactions...
Business
In wake of AT&T outage, consumer advocates say you should always ask for money back if there’s a blackout
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
A cellular tower is seen on Feb. 22, 2024 in Redondo Beach, California. The outage affected tens of thousands of customers in cities across the country whose phones lost signal overnight.
An AT&T service outage impacted tens of thousands of customers on Feb. 22.
The company said it would automatically apply a $5 credit to the accounts...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is once again warning the stock market is doomed unless voters return him to the White House.
Trump is not just foretelling a market meltdown — something he, wrongly, forecast in 2020. The former president is predicting the mother of all market crashes if he isn’t victorious.
“If we lose, you’re gonna have a crash like...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Department of Energy announced more than $350 million for rural renewable energy projects from the bipartisan infrastructure law funds Tuesday.
On a call with reporters, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the $366 million would be allocated across 17 projects in 20 states and 30 tribal nations. Twelve of the projects are on tribal lands, according to Granholm.
“These...
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO
Synopsis
Helios Capital founder Samir Arora has said Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will either be fired or resign due to controversies surrounding Google's Gemini AI. Responding to social media inquiries, Arora criticized Pichai's handling of AI advancements. Gemini, Google's AI chatbot, faces scrutiny for alleged bias against PM Modi. India's Ministry of Electronics and Information...