J Studios | Digitalvision | Getty Images In Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s fictional short story, “Minimum Payment Due,” the main character is trapped in credit card debt and desperate for a way out. The fact that the experience is common — more than a third, or 38%, of adults in the U.S. have credit card debt, according […]
Google CEO Pichai tells employees ‘The stakes are high’ for 2025
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees last week that “the stakes are high” for 2025, as the company faces increased competition and regulatory hurdles and contends […]
Sabrina Carpenter, ‘America’s Got Talent’ winner Richard Goodall among breakout music stars of 2024
2024 was a big year for the music industry, with many new stars breaking onto the scene. Singers including Taylor Swift’s protégé Gracie Abrams and “Espresso” songstress Sabrina Carpenter had wildly successful debuts. Abrams scored her first No. 1 hit, while Carpenter had multiple hits which were labeled the songs of the summer, not to […]
Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims
Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being the inventor of Bitcoin, has been given a one-year prison sentence by a UK judge after being found in contempt of court. The sentence is suspended for two years, meaning that Wright will only face prison if he reoffends during that […]
Crypto’s comeback: Triumph over turmoil in 2024
Bitcoin crossed $100K, marking a bullish year. Still, legal battles, regulatory crackdowns and poor decisions tested the industry.
Here’s how this DC-area high school is helping to close the wealth gap
Hill Street Studios | Getty Images Keith Harris, a 17-year-old high school senior at KIPP DC College Preparatory, has studied accounting, investing and budgeting, among other basic lessons, like his English, history and math curriculum. Harris is enrolled in his high school’s NAF Academy of Business, a rigorous three-year finance program with a work-based learning […]
Why Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta are betting on nuclear power
Data centers powering artificial intelligence and cloud computing are pushing energy demand and production to new limits. Global electricity use could rise as much as 75% by 2050, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, with the tech industry’s AI ambitions driving much of the surge. Data centers powering AI and cloud computing could soon […]
Hollywood stars who died in 2024: PHOTOS
A photo gallery of the stars lost in 2024.
Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform. As the pandemic raged, the lawsuit hardly registered outside the small world of nerds obsessed with copyright rules. […]
What are crypto debit cards: How they work and where to use them
Crypto debit cards allow users to spend their cryptocurrency holdings; they work by converting crypto into fiat currency at the point of sale.