Author’s Blurb: When thinking about sonic or electric toothbrushes, I would just brush off the idea seeing as it is more of a luxury in oral hygiene than a necessity. On top of that, making a run to the store every few months just to change heads is much more …
Read More »Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is still coming — but not this year
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Electronic Arts still hasn’t revealed Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, and that’s for a reason. The publisher originally planned to launch the remastered trilogy, that I first reported on back in May, with an October reveal and release. …
Read More »Could You Give Up These 7 Expenses to Save Thousands of Dollars a Year?
ViDI Studio / Shutterstock.com If you’ve looked over your budget and think you can’t cut it down anymore, maybe you need to look a little harder. There are probably some expenses you still could reduce — or drop altogether — to save thousands of dollars a year. We found some …
Read More »Fauci Says It Could Be a Year Before Theater Without Masks Feels Normal
As theaters look to see how they might reopen with safety accommodations including mask use, Dr. Anthony Fauci says it will likely be more than a year before people feel comfortable returning to theaters without masks. “If we get a really good vaccine and just about everybody gets vaccinated,” he …
Read More »Here’s How Much Retiree Households Spend in a Year
Photo by wavebreakmedia / Shutterstock.com How much does it cost to get by in retirement? Pretty close to what it costs to live before retirement. U.S. households led by someone who is 65 or older spend a whopping $ 50,220 a year. That’s according to the latest federal data on …
Read More »Here’s Where Home Prices Have Increased the Most This Year
The housing market is in a strange place right now. Interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgages are below 3%. This is good news for potential homebuyers since lower interest rates translate to paying less in interest on their home loans over time. On the other hand, the current home shortage …
Read More »Getting Children Flu Shots Is Even More Important This Year
Making sure that your kids get a yearly flu shot is always a good idea, but even more so this fall, as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout much of the United States. As any parent knows, cold and flu season always brings a host of respiratory viruses and runny …
Read More »The Supreme Court’s Birth Control Decision Will Cost Women $584 a Year
In July 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of the Trump administration’s exemptions to the birth control insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the ruling means employer health insurance plans are no longer required to cover contraception or birth control if the employer has moral …
Read More »‘Airbnb For The Needy’: This S’pore Initiative Opens Up Homes At Zero Rent For Up To A Year
Kampungs, or villages, have long ceased to be the primary type of accommodation in Singapore. A ‘kampung’ is a Malay term for a traditional village — a clustered community with a population of a few hundreds. Today, this is similar to a Housing Development Board (HDB) estate, where most Singaporeans …
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