These Are The Jobs That Will Be Safe From The Imminent Invasion Of Robots
Worried your job is going to be made obsolete by a robot? Here's a chart based on a table from The Economist's big story on the future of jobs. It looks at jobs that will be taken over by robots in the...
View Article2 Dead In Massive Pileup Involving 'Too Many Vehicles To Count' Near Chicago
Two people were killed today in a massive pileup involving several semi-trailers near Chicago, ABC is reporting. Officials told ABC the accident involved "too many vehicles to count." Heavy equipment...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is Winning People Over With Its $99-Per-Year Version Of Office (MSFT)
Microsoft's annual subscription version of Office, called Office 365 Home Premium, has been steadily growing.Home Premium launched a year ago and now has 3.5 million subscribers, Microsoft said during...
View ArticleHere's The Secret To Keeping Your Career Fresh
Kerry Cooper's first job out of college was a gig with McKinsey.Since then, she has worked in everything from venture capital to retail, and today she is CEO of Choose Energy, an online energy...
View ArticleA Kazakh Mathematician Claims To Have Solved An Enormously Important Equation
A huge mathematical breakthrough might have just been made, but a language barrier is slowing things down.New Scientist reports that Kazakh mathematician Mukhtarbay Otelbayev may have solved an...
View ArticleMost Americans Aren't Getting Or Expecting A Raise
Though the economy is much improved from the lows of the recession, it doesn't seem that way to the long-term unemployed and people who aren't moving forward in their jobs. The majority of Americans...
View ArticleHere's Why Economic Mobility Is Stuck In Neutral
The big news in the policy world on Thursday was the release of a new paper by Harvard economist Raj Chetty and four other authors on economic mobility.The study found that, contrary to popular belief,...
View ArticleConservative Commentator Dinesh D'Souza Indicted On Campaign Finance Fraud...
Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative commentator, best-selling author, and filmmaker, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating federal campaign finance laws.The U.S. Attorney's Office in the...
View ArticleThe Three Mayors Making Bombshell Allegations Against Chris Christie Have...
At first, as scandals involving their cities started to unfold this month, Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich (D) and Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer (D) couldn't talk enough.When new documents revealed the...
View ArticleLawyer's Religious Memo Reveals Why He Quit To Fight Gay Marriage Full-Time
The gay rights group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has posted an exit memo by a BigLaw attorney who left his firm so he could fight gay marriage full-time in Utah.The HRC leaked the exit memo the week...
View ArticleAmerica's Manufacturers Should Get Ready To Eat China's Lunch
Veteran market strategist Rich Bernstein recently published his list of three secular investment themes.Among them: the American Industrial Renaissance."Small and mid-cap US-focused industrial and...
View ArticlePrinceton Study Saying Facebook Is Doomed Gets Destroyed In Hilarious Fashion...
Researchers at Princeton made news this week by proclaiming the impending doom of Facebook. They concluded that Facebook will lose 80% of its peak users between 2015- 2017. Naturally this research...
View ArticlePeople Actually Smell Different When They Are Sick
Have you ever felt like you can smell someone getting sick? A new study suggests that sickness does actually have a unique odor — that of the overactive immune system. And other humans can actually...
View ArticleHow Picky Female Mice Can Show Us How To Fight Off Infections
Choosing mates based on how attractive they are to you is not as shallow as it sounds.Female mice seem to be able to choose the males they will make better babies with — babies with stronger immune...
View Article8 Predictions For China's Super-Rich In 2014
With the global elite gathered at Davos for the World Economic Forum, a groundbreaking new report released yesterday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists detailing the massive...
View ArticleThe Highest-Paid Players In The NBA On And Off The Court
The NBA has gone to great lengths in recent negotiations with the players' union to curb the growth of player salaries.One place where the top players are making more than ever is off the court through...
View ArticleTwitter's Really Cool Video App Vine Is A Year Old: Here Are Two Of The Best...
A year ago Twitter launched a video sharing app called Vine. It lets you take a six-second video and post it on Twitter and Facebook.It's a really fun app.To celebrate its birthday, Vine posted some of...
View ArticleHere's How I Found Out Who Unfollowed Me On Twitter
I noticed that my Twitter followers were beginning to dwindle. Although the number of people who followed me was a paltry number, I couldn't understand who was leaving my profile and why.Fortunately, I...
View ArticleGoogle Will Pay A Year's Salary To Hackers Who Find One Really Bad Security...
Google wants hackers to break into its Chrome OS operating system.As long as they tell Google how they did it.It announced plans for its fourth annual hacking contest called Pwnium 4, held in March at...
View ArticleMobile Is The Future Of Payments — Here's How Much Runway There Is For Growth
It's no longer a question of when and how mobile will emerge as a payments platform.The habit of paying for things on smartphones and tablets is already ingrained in modern consumer society,...
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