You did it. After shopping for weeks or even months, you found the one. The house that checks all your boxes and then some. Now that the fun part is over, it’s time to handle the not-so-enjoyable part, the process to get approved for a mortgage loan. Without a mortgage, …
Read More »Biden Takes First Tentative Steps to Address Global Vaccine Shortage
Under pressure to play catch-up on “vaccine diplomacy,” President Biden says he will help finance vaccine manufacturing capacity but is still resisting exports of doses. WASHINGTON — President Biden, under intense pressure to donate excess coronavirus vaccines to needy nations, moved on Friday to address the global shortage in another …
Read More »Abraham Twerski, Who Merged 12 Steps and the Torah, Dies at 90
A noted psychiatrist, he looked outside his Orthodox tradition to meld an eclectic menu of addiction treatments, including the A.A. idea of a “higher power.” Abraham J. Twerski was an Orthodox rabbi, the descendant of several Hasidic dynasties. Yet he was also a psychiatrist and a respected authority on addiction …
Read More »Leading computer scientists debate the next steps for AI in 2021
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data Learn More The 2010s were huge for artificial intelligence, thanks to advances in deep learning, a branch of AI that …
Read More »Use Your Social Security to Earn More in 5 Simple Steps
Few Americans have enough saved for an emergency — and much less for retirement. The median retirement savings for a total household is roughly $ 57,000 among full-time workers. The amount is barely enough to cover average expenses for one retired individual for a single year. What about the next …
Read More »5 Simple Steps to Increase Your Credit Score in 30 Days
Photo by fizkes / Shutterstock.com With the economy in recession and the nation still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic, now’s the time to make sure your credit and credit score are in tip-top shape. Your financial security might depend on it. Bad credit can lead to bad news: …
Read More »4 Surprising Steps to Achieve Your Long-Term Financial Goals
Once I had some appreciation of the value of financial goals, my first real financial goal was to pay off all of our high-interest debt. It was a very tangible, real goal — a nice short- to medium-term goal for which I could easily track my progress, easily figure out …
Read More »GOMO Steps Up With 50GB For $30 Plan, But Why Are Its Posts On Singtel’s Social Media Gone?
Editorial Note: GOMO Go Where? Screenshot of Singtel’s Instagram Stories Vulcan Post recently received a tip-off about this series of Instagram Story posted via Singtel’s account. The message within the Stories was so ambiguous that we have no definitive idea on what it actually meant, but figured that it is …
Read More »8 Steps to Put an End to Robocalls
nakaridore / Shutterstock.com If your phone is ringing off the hook with infuriating robocalls, you are not alone. Americans received 3 billion robocalls in May, according to the YouMail Robocall Index. That is down from a peak of 5.7 billion robocalls in October 2019, a trend that YouMail has attributed …
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