Not just Florida: Consider the world when planning retirement
Living in North America offers access to an unprecedented standard of living, stable employment, safety, and entertainment. But it comes at a high cost….
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Great summer for air travel
According to Bloomberg, this summer has turned out to be one of the best for cheap air travel in more than a decade. Jet fuel costs have been at 12-year…
New technology creates faceprints
Just as a fingerprint is considered accurate identification, new facial recognition technologies are now creating reliable faceprints. According to…
How the World Wide Web was born
If you can’t image the world without the Web, just remember that in human years, the World Wide Web hasn’t even broken 30 yet. According to TechSpot, the…
Pings continued: Picking criminal faces from the minds of victims
Picking criminal faces from the minds of victims Suppose a crime victim could offer a precise image of the criminal. It may be possible. According to…
Pings: Facebook maps can help first responders
Facebook maps can help first responders Facebook spends a lot of time and effort trying to determine where its users are located, and it looks like their…
The Perseid shower: See the lights in the sky
Not many of us will be privileged to travel into space, but we can enjoy the phenomenon of a meteor shower as it crosses the nighttime sky. Meteoroids are…
Buy happiness: New experiences count
You won’t find happiness at the mall in the form of a huge new TV or in the department store in the form of new clothes or a fancy coffee pot. They will…
Are you allergic? Ragweed brings cold-like symptoms
As many as 20 percent of North Americans are allergic to ragweed pollen, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The pollen…
High-priced meds hit pocketbooks
Expensive medicines are increasingly hitting seniors and other beneficiaries of Medicare’s prescription drug program, known as Part D, according to a Wall…