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Data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that retirees may need hundreds of thousands of dollars more than planned to cover their post-retirement health care costs.This figure takes into account Medicare, the U.S. federal health insurance program for people 65 and older. Medicare covers many services, but experts say retirees often underestimate how much they’ll pay over the long term.A 65-year-old couple could need about $405,000 to cover their medical expenses in retirement, based on a scenario that assumes a 90% chance of covering medical expenses and reflects typical Medicare coverage options, according to a March analysis from EBRI.…
The U.S. birth rate has now been in decline for two decades, dropping nearly 23% since 2007.Published April 9, 2026April 9, 2026The U.S. birth rate has fallen to an all-time low, continuing a trend in which the number of births in the country has fallen by nearly 23 percent since 2007.The birth rate in 2025 will be 53.1 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, down 1% from the previous year, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listExperts attribute this shift to a variety of…
Brett Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Sierra, a startup that develops customer service AI agents for enterprises, believes the way humans and software interact will change in the near future. Last month, Sierra released Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. The startup aims to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language using this “agent-as-a-service” tool. Users simply describe what they want, and Ghostwriter autonomously creates and deploys dedicated agents to perform the task. The idea of replacing software with language-based prompts is interesting in large part because many of the tools companies currently use aren’t used regularly,…
Here are the stocks that made headlines during intraday trading: Simply Good Foods — The Atkins diet food maker fell 19% after reported fiscal second-quarter sales and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, and fiscal third-quarter guidance for sales and EBITDA were significantly below Wall Street consensus estimates, according to FactSet data. Brown-Forman — The maker of Jack Daniel’s whiskey soared 12% after the Wall Street Journal reported that Sazerac approached the spirits company about a possible deal. The report comes two weeks after Brown-Forman confirmed it was in talks with Pernod Ricard about a merger of equals.…
The Intel Xeon 6 processor was unveiled to CNBC on November 17, 2025 at Intel’s advanced packaging facility in Chandler, Arizona.tony puyolgoogle We are committed to using it for multiple generations. intel The company’s artificial intelligence data center central processing unit is an expansion of an existing partnership.Intel stock rose 2% on Thursday, while Alphabet stock fell more than 1%.The Internet giant has long relied on Intel processors, dating back to its early server rack concepts nearly 30 years ago. Intel’s latest Xeon 6 CPUs will now run AI training and inference workloads, potentially giving the chipmaker a strong position…
Maine is poised to enact the first statewide ban on data center construction, potentially paving the way for other states to follow suit and put a brake on the growing industry.Maine lawmakers this week greenlit the text of a bill that would block data center construction in the state until November 2027. The bill, which is expected to pass in the coming days, would also create a council to recommend potential guardrails for data centers to ensure that Maine residents don’t face higher energy prices and other complications. The bill has bipartisan support, but faces fierce opposition from tech groups…
The Lublin district prosecutor’s office announced Thursday that Polish authorities have arrested a man in connection with an alleged rape of an “unknown victim” that was recorded and shared online. The arrests followed an undercover investigation by CNN into an online network of men teaching each other how to drug and rape their partners. Polish media identified the arrested man as “Piotr,” the pseudonym given to the Polish man at the center of CNN’s investigation. Marek Gyici, a spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office, did not name the suspect, but confirmed to CNN that a person had been detained on…
The Darts Regulatory Authority (DRA) has announced that only players assigned female at birth will be eligible to compete in women’s tournaments.Following the commissioning of a report by academic developmental biologists and a review of its transgender and gender diversity policy which took into account “extensive legal advice” and recent UK court decisions, the DRA said: “In order to achieve fair competition in darts, we are satisfied that only biological females will be eligible to compete in women’s tournaments regulated by DRA rules, including the PDC Women’s Series.” Noah-Lynn van Leuven, who became the first transgender woman to compete at…
Google and Intel on Thursday announced an expansion of a multi-year partnership that will see Google Cloud continue to leverage Intel AI infrastructure and continue joint development of processors. Google Cloud uses Intel’s Xeon processors, including Intel’s latest Xeon 6 chips, for AI, cloud, and inference tasks. The company has used a variety of Intel’s Xeon processors for decades. The companies will also expand their joint development of custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs) that help data centers accelerate and manage tasks by offloading them from the CPU. Launched in 2021, this chip development partnership will focus on custom ASIC-based IPUs.…
After 25 years in higher education and working with thousands of students on their college success and career outcomes, I have come to a conclusion that surprises many families. That means we’re asking the wrong questions about college.Young people are told to focus on choosing the “right” major (usually the one that leads to the highest starting salary). This is the benchmark that many people strive for, and it is also the one that I see students stress the most about.But real careers don’t play out that way. Over the years, I have seen students from vastly different majors reach…