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  • North Korea displayed its submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) for the first time on Saturday ahead of a massive military parade in the capital, Pyongyang. North Korea warned the United States on Saturday to end its “military hysteria” or face retaliation as a U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed towards the region and the reclusive state marked the 105th birth anniversary of its founding father. State TV showed images of the Pukkuksong-2 SLBMs on trucks waiting to be paraded in front of
    North Korea displays submarine-based missiles for first time at military parade

  • The United States has warned that a policy of “strategic patience” is over. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence travels to South Korea on Sunday on a long-planned 10-day trip to Asia. North Korea for its part denounced the United States for bringing “huge nuclear strategic assets” to the region. A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace issued a statement condemning the United States for its attack on the Syrian airfield. North Korea, still technically at
    China says North Korea tension has to be stopped from reaching 'irreversible' stage

  • The dollar fell on Wednesday after President Donald Trump criticized its recent strength, but analysts expect the greenback to bounce back soon. “Donald Trump is the president of the U.S. so I don’t blame market participants for taking him seriously,” Rickards said. “He didn’t do any of the things he said he would,” Rickards noted. “Will the real Donald Trump stand up?” “Any one of Donald Trump’s promised policies — tax cuts, offshore corporate profit repatriation, a border adjustment tax — woul
    Trump tanked the dollar, but it’ll bounce back soon, analysts say

  • Belichick says you have to try to figure out what your opponent will do next in order to win. “You see what your opponent’s doing, where they make an adjustment to what you’re doing, and then you have to change.” Having that kind of adaptability is what’s led him to five Super Bowl wins as head coach of the Patriots, including his last one in February. “My job as a coach is to make good decisions,” he says. Belichick also says that preparation is everything in order to do well under pressure.
    Here's how Patriots coach Bill Belichick makes decisions under enormous pressure

  • With four children between the ages of 13 and 21, Richard Goldberg knew financing college would be a challenge. “Even though we started saving early, the cost of paying for all of this was daunting,” he said. When his oldest daughter Hailey was accepted to a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania – with a tuition tab of nearly $50,000 – he envisioned a lifetime of loans for him and his wife Laurie, as well as their children. “Because of our income level, I knew we wouldn’t get much of anyt
    ‘How I knocked $120,000 off our college tab’

  • Take early retirees Justin and Kaisorn McCurry, who banked more than $1 million in a decade, or “The Money Wizard,” a Minneapolis-based 26-year-old who has accumulated $150,000 in savings. At the McCurry’s peak earning period, they were making a combined $138,000, and “The Money Wizard,” who goes by the pen name Sean, started with a salary of $70,000. Here are some of the best lessons we’ve learned from people who save at least 50% of their income. Automate everythingIn just five years, Grant Sa
    9 strategies to save a fortune, from real people who bank half their income

  • A variety of Kimpton Hotels across the country have prepared some Tax Day offers as well. Guest staying at the Hotel Palomar in Chicago on Tax Day, April 18, will receive a voucher for a complimentary cocktail to be sipped at the Sable Kitchen & Bar, which is located next to the hotel. For those who really need some down time after filing their taxes (or confident about their refund), there’s the Relax After You Tax package ($1,040, before tax; Rate code: TAXDAY) being offered at both the Kimpto
    Tax Day deals include hotel discounts, shaved ice and maybe a free flight

  • Legendary New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick has four things that he asks of his team every day in order to improve. That’s really what it’s about for us.” “We don’t talk about last year. We don’t talk about next week. We don’t talk about next year.”
    4 things Bill Belichick asks the Patriots to do every day

  • For its fiscal year 2016, the Transportation Security Administration reported that passengers left behind more than $867, 812.39 in coins and currency in the plastic bowls and bins at various U.S. airport checkpoints. That’s about $102,000 more than the amount left behind in 2015, and the more than $484,000 left behind in 2008. Over the years, the amount of change left behind by travelers at airports has been steadily climbing—jumping from about $489,000 in 2011 to almost $675,000 in 2014, and h
    Keep the change: Travelers left behind nearly $1 million in coins, currency in airports last year

  • A company built around the research of Craig Wright, who has claimed to have invented the bitcoin cryptocurrency, has been sold to a private equity firm in a deal the company says is the biggest to date involving bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology. The deal swings the spotlight once again on to Wright, a 46-year-old computer scientist who is the cryptocurrency’s most controversial figure. Reuters previously identified nChain, formerly known as EITC Holdings, as Wright’s vehicle for filin
    Company behind bitcoin 'creator' sold to private investors

  • If you’ve been procrastinating on your taxes until now, here’s some 11th hour advice: Keep calm and gather your documents. As of April 7, the Internal Revenue Service has received more than 103 million individual income tax returns. Overall, the federal agency predicts it will receive more than 153 million returns this season. If you’re still dragging your feet on submitting your Form 1040, you should know that you have until April 18 to file. “But if you have a simple return or you’re getting a
    You’re almost out of time: Last-minute tax tips

  • Vinyl records, which is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity that’s outstripping digital music growth, proves the adage that everything old is new again. Last year, Vinyl LP sales reached 13 million, according to Nielsen’s Year-End Report released on Jan. 9. Despite the fact that cell phones and tablets are music lovers method of choice for music playback—a function of streaming media—vinyl’s vintage novelty is feeding a boom in record sales. “Now with the internet and instant gratifica
    Vinyl is vintage and the future, as new generation warms to an old music form

  • Launching this morning and backed by Stripe (where she has been working since she left Uber), Increment is described as a “collection of insider tips cultivated from inside Silicon Valley’s largest and most influential companies and entrepreneurs.” But if you consider the book she has written titled “Production-Ready Microservices: Building Standardized Systems Across an Engineering Organization,” you get it. (If a Pulitzer could go to a techie, Susan probably deserves one here given the huge im
    Susan Fowler to lead Stripe’s new engineering tips publication

  • The findings are thanks to NASA’s Cassini spacecraft — which has been exploring the Saturn system since 2004. In fact, four of the six most important elements of Earth life — carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen — have been found at Enceladus; only phosphorous and sulfur haven’t been seen there. Four of the six most important elements of Earth life — carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen — have been found at Enceladus. To figure out if molecular hydrogen was present on Enceladus, Cassini did
    NASA finds more evidence that the ocean on Enceladus could support alien life

  • Shares of Dexcom briefly dipped on Thursday, after news that Apple may be developing technology to monitor blood sugar levels. Dexcom makes glucose monitoring products, including mobile apps, to help patients with diabetes. Pacelli said Dexcom worked closely with Apple when they released the Dexcom app. But other noninvasive technologies, potentially including what Apple may be exploring, could be used for endurance athletes. But either way, the interest from big tech reveals how important the g
    Health care company Dexcom sees shares slip amid potential competition from Apple

  • The research, undertaken by U.K. based professional services network PwC, found that 39 percent of British consumers would be open to the technology, trailing behind Germany at 41 percent, Turkey at 85 percent and Nigeria at 94 percent. Germany was the only country other than the U.K. to show signs of doubt. Based on a survey of over 11,000 people from 12 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the study showed that 55 percent of respondents worldwide were open to the advanced healt
    Patients in the UK are least likely to accept medical treatment from robots, research reveals

  • [The stream is slated to start at 2 p.m. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] NASA is holding a press conference to discuss new findings, from the Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope, about ocean worlds in the solar system. The event will include remote participation from experts across the U.S.
    Watch: NASA discusses findings about ocean worlds in our solar system

  • Facebook said on Thursday it is taking action against tens of thousands of fake accounts in France as the social network giant seeks to demonstrate it is doing more to halt the spread of spam as well as fake news, hoaxes and misinformation. The Silicon Valley-based company is under intense pressure as governments across Europe threaten new laws unless Facebook moves quickly to remove extremist propaganda or other content illegal under existing regulation. In a blog post, Facebook said it was tak
    Facebook cracks down on 30,000 fake accounts in France

  • Blackburn’s remarks did little to quell unrest among Amazon employees disappointed by the company’s ads on Breitbart. Since last year’s election, Amazon’s leadership has faced consistent pressure from customers and employees to cut its ad ties to Breitbart. When BuzzFeed News first reported on Amazon employee unrest over Breitbart ads in February, 34 employees had filed individual complaints to management. Amazon employees told BuzzFeed News that the company had previously been largely unrespons
    Amazon employees pushing to cut advertising ties with Breitbart

  • This firm helps to localize video content from the US and Russia for the Chinese market Wednesday, 12 Apr 2017 | 8:43 PM ET | 02:48Chinese social media users will soon benefit from a flood of new international content entering their feeds. That’s thanks to recent tie-ups between local social media platforms and digital content distributor network Yoola to bring selected content, primarily from the United States and Russia, into the Chinese market. Local partners include social media giants Weibo
    Western content is heading to Chinese social media feeds

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