Month: May 2021

VIDEO 1:18:35 01:18:35 Finding your financial success Invest in You: Ready. Set. Grow. During CNBC Invest in You’s recent virtual event, Finding your financial success , Caleb Kuberiet, a senior English major at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., asked panelists, “What is a book you recommend to everybody about personal finance and what is […]

Children read longer books of greater difficulty during lockdown periods last year, and reported that reading made them feel better while isolated from the wider world, according to new research. The annual What Kids Are Reading report from Renaissance Learning, which studies the reading habits of more than one million pupils in the UK and […]

When leaders of the project management and communication software company Basecamp announced last week that it would curb political conversations at work, fallout came fast. Tech employees, workplace consultants and politicians alike assailed the decision on Twitter and LinkedIn, though other company leaders called it a courageous move . Some employees publicly threatened to quit. […]

Hong Kong (CNN Business) Toyota is hitting the gas to achieve its self-driving goals by buying Lyft’s autonomous vehicle business for over half a billion dollars. The two players announced the $550 million acquisition on Tuesday, saying that it would allow them to create a “dream team” of about 1,200 researchers and engineers around the […]

Air travel from India will be restricted starting on Tuesday. In the U.S., more than 100 million people are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, though officials warn that vaccinations are down 20 percent.

SINGAPORE – Top-notch tech talents, from start-up entrepreneurs to experienced industry operators, are starting to set their sights on Singapore. There have been about 60 applications approved as at March 31 for the new Tech.Pass that aims to attract top-tier foreigners, the Economic Development Board (EDB) told The Straits Times. Please subscribe or log in […]

Black writers of speculative fiction once struggled to find a place on bookshelves. As Samuel R. Delany wrote in his 1998 essay “ Racism and Science Fiction ,” even when Black writers did get published, sometimes their works were whitewashed, like the early book covers of Octavia E. Butler’s works , or were otherwise sidelined. […]

Soon enough, the world will hopefully feel a bit more back to normal, and you’re going to want to make up for all of that lost time . Too many of us have been cooped up in our home offices, imagining the days of getting to go on planes and do fun things again–or even […]