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By Sean Brodrick On March 9, 202104:00 AM Eastern
Spanish conquistadors saw platinum (aka “white gold”) as an impurity.
They threw it away!
… despite the fact that it’s 30 TIMES RARER that the shiny yellow stuff they were after.
3,332 tons...
By Tony Sagami On September 18, 202007:00 AM Eastern
“When are you going to retire, dad?” asked my son.
His question was prompted by my 64th birthday, which I celebrated yesterday.
The answer to my son’s question is — God willing — I will work...
By Jon D. Markman On July 27, 202012:58 PM Eastern
In the 1990s, Wintel, the partnership between Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) Windows and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC, Rated “B”) that created the x86 chips, was unstoppable.
The two tech giants...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On June 22, 202012:49 PM Eastern
All four of the places in the world where I’ve spent the most time in recent years have experienced frightening surges in COVID-19 cases.
One is northern Italy. We go there to visit our dear...
By Sean Brodrick On April 30, 202008:18 AM Eastern
The Great Toilet Paper Shortage™ seems to be ebbing. As recently as April 12, a whopping 73% of U.S. grocery stores had no toilet paper on their shelves, according to Reuters data. More recently,...
By Tony Sagami On April 27, 202004:16 PM Eastern
When your father is a farmer, you see very little of him during the spring and summer.
My mother solved this problem by gently insisting she and I ride with him on the three-times-per-week...
By Tony Sagami On March 13, 202008:19 AM Eastern
One of my children recently told me, “Dad, I’m voting for Bernie Sanders.”
At first, I thought he was pulling my leg. When I realized he was dead serious, I almost had a heart attack.
Sanders...
By Jon D. Markman On February 7, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Stop me if you have read this before: Microsoft (MSFT) reported another blowout quarter on the back of stronger than expected sales from its cloud computing businesses.
We’ve all heard that...
By Jon D. Markman On January 29, 202002:00 PM Eastern
Despite media opposition, facial recognition systems are gaining momentum worldwide.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service announced Friday that within a month, facial recognition software will...
By Sean Brodrick On January 16, 202005:00 AM Eastern
One industry fell so hard last year, it’s like it was pushed out a high-rise window. Recently, it was down 57% from its March 2019 peak. Individual names in the industry fell harder — 70% … 80% …...