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Owning Costco (COST -1.34%) or Walmart (WMT -0.65%) stock today might seem risky, given the uncertainty around tariffs and economic growth. Retailers are among the first to notice when consumers are pulling back on spending, often by trading down to cheaper brands and limiting discretionary purchases. Yet, these two retailing giants have proven that they […]
from the so-it-went dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Don Henley was using TikTok as a reason to push for stronger copyright laws, while some Senators were asking the FCC to reinterpret Section 230 in a ridiculous manner, and Ron Wyden was explaining how Trump and many others were totally wrong about 230. […]
The following article is a guest post and opinion of Yurii Kovalchuk, Senior Blockchain Engineer at Forte Group. Three and a half years ago, I made a decision that completely changed the trajectory of my career. I left the familiar world of Web2 and stepped into the deep, chaotic, and exhilarating space of blockchain development. […]
Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been using Canva for years, mostly for simple designs. So when I saw that Canva had rolled out a new photo editing tool, which is more advanced that the simple tweaks you can make in a design, I was interested in trying it out. I stumbled across a useful […]
Top fund managers consistently select individual stocks to build high-performing portfolios. While individual investors often believe they can do the same, and some actually might, the vast majority of people aren’t as skilled at stock selection. Here’s where the recommendation of Warren Buffett comes into play. The Oracle of Omaha suggests the right course of […]
Hey, do you know your tax brackets? I’m talking about the critical bands that determine whether you’re a basic (20%), higher (40%), or additional-rate (45%) taxpayer. Everyone knows their height and their shoe size. Most teenage boys even spend a furtive moment with a ruler. But many of us have no idea where the various […]
Oracle (ORCL -0.64%) reported its fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter results on June 11, delivering quarterly revenue of $15.9 billion (up 11%) and annual revenue of $57.4 billion (up 9%), surpassing earlier guidance. It also raised its fiscal 2026 revenue target to over $67 billion, forecasting 16% growth. The company highlighted its cloud revenue, which grew by […]
Plasma, a blockchain platform focused on stablecoin infrastructure, is making waves across the crypto space for raising $500 million through its XPL token offering and securing a strategic partnership with DeFi giant Aave in the last 24 hours. The Aave collaboration will see Plasma integrate the DeFi protocol’s lending and liquidity infrastructure to distribute USDT […]
The Grand Tour is a classic visualization technique for high-dimensional point clouds that projects a high-dimensional dataset into two dimensions. Over time, the Grand Tour smoothly animates its projection so that every possible view of the dataset is (eventually) presented to the viewer. Unlike modern nonlinear projection methods such as t-SNE and UMAP, the Grand […]
