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Tech review: More gadget gift ideas for the holidays
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, but the holiday shopping season is still in full swing.
Here are three more gadgets I’ve been reviewing that I think would make nice gifts.
The prices listed here are ...Read more

Social Security and You: Social Security Rules - Same Ol', Same Ol'
Several times every week, someone makes a comment similar to this one that I found in my inbox today: "It's so hard to stay current with Social Security because the rules are changing constantly!"
I guess I can understand...Read more

Motormouth: Tips to avoid salt corrosion
Q: We live part time on the East Coast, close to the ocean. The exposure to salt air accelerates corrosion. Do you have any suggestions on what we can do to minimize this? Also do you have any suggestions on vehicles that ...Read more

Cargill speeds up timeline to end deforestation in Brazil. Will it be enough?
Agribusiness giant Cargill on Monday moved forward a goal to eliminate deforestation and land conversion from both direct and indirect supply chains in key South American countries, including Brazil, by five years.
The ...Read more
Bay Area tech layoffs pass grim milestone with new Qualcomm job cuts
SANTA CLARA, California — Qualcomm has revealed plans to chop scores of jobs in the Bay Area, cutbacks that have brought the region’s tech layoffs to a grim economic benchmark.
The Qualcomm layoffs in the Bay Area are...Read more

Disney CEO Bob Iger downplays talk of selling TV networks, including ABC
Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger at a Tuesday town hall for staff appeared to downplay his earlier comments suggesting he’d be willing to sell off Disney’s linear TV assets, adding that the company’s ...Read more

Charlie Munger, Who Helped Buffett Build Berkshire, Dies at 99
Charles Munger, the alter ego, sidekick and foil to Warren Buffett for almost 60 years as they transformed Berkshire Hathaway Inc. from a failing textile maker into an empire, has died. He was 99.
He died on Tuesday at a ...Read more

Retail customers say they have donation fatigue. Here's why some aren't rounding up for charity anymore
When Jennifer Lynn Robinson runs errands, it feels like all store employees and self-checkout screens ask the same question: Do you want to round up your bill to the next dollar for charity or make a small donation?
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Musk's Cybertruck is already a production nightmare for Tesla
The Cybertruck hasn’t even hit the market yet, and Elon Musk already is lamenting that Tesla Inc. has dug its own grave.
Its stainless steel body may be able to withstand bullets and arrows, but it’s going to be a ...Read more

US targets banks' billions of dollars in overdraft fees
A top US consumer watchdog is preparing to make it much harder for banks to charge clients overdraft fees — setting up a clash with financial firms over billions of dollars in annual revenue.
Consumer Financial ...Read more

Workers at Philly-area Amazon warehouse walked out on Cyber Monday
Amazon workers at a fulfillment center that services Philadelphia and South Jersey walked out of work on Monday, demanding better pay and working conditions as part of a multistate organizing effort.
About two dozen ...Read more

Shopping online? How to avoid delivery thefts, ID fraud, sale panic and other seasonal scams
Social media teems with videos of boxes being swiped off porches. The internet means fraudsters don’t have to show you their face to fool you. And the big business of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa means it’s also a ...Read more

US home prices hit record with eight straight months of gains
Home prices in the U.S. extended their climb, reaching a fresh record high.
A national gauge of prices rose 0.7% in September from August, according to seasonally adjusted data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller. It was the ...Read more

In 1st trial of its kind in the US, Irish startup spreads concrete dust on Illinois farm field to remove CO2 from the air
Over the course of millions of years, the earth regularly removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a natural process called weathering, when exposure to the elements wears down surface rocks and silicate minerals...Read more

These members say LA Fitness misled them into signing up for long-term personal training contracts
John Chappelear and his friend Jeff Gordon say they were adamant when they told the LA Fitness personal trainer that Gordon could not afford a yearlong personal training program for $5,280.
Gordon, 77, had accompanied ...Read more

Michael Hiltzik: An exhaustive debunking of the dumbest myths about Social Security
Myths and canards about Social Security and its supposed fiscal troubles have steadily proliferated over the years. But it’s rare to find them all concentrated in one place as they were in a recent article on the online ...Read more

Wolf Carbon Solutions pauses its bid for Illinois approval of a controversial 260-mile CO2 pipeline
Wolf Carbon Solutions U.S., which has proposed a controversial 260-mile carbon dioxide pipeline for Illinois and Indiana, is temporarily withdrawing its application to build in Illinois.
Wolf filed a motion last week to ...Read more

60 years after its first organ transplant, Mayo Clinic looks to the future
ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Sheila Maines didn't know if she'd live long enough to get a new kidney.
The 58-year-old Oklahoma woman felt crushed after doctors in that state refused her for a transplant, citing her medical ...Read more

With mortgage rates near 8%, October home purchases slow, but prices stay high
Bay Area home sales remained sluggish in October as the supply dwindled and high interest rates kept potential sellers from listing.
Sales of existing homes in California fell nearly 12% from last year, according to new ...Read more

In the Bay Area, 1 in 4 millennials (and 3 in 4 Gen Zers) still live at home
After Kelly Zhao earned a master’s degree in ethnic studies from UCLA last year, she followed the lead of so many other young graduates thrust into a competitive job market: She moved back in with her parents while she ...Read more
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