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Google employees and critics protest Eric Schmidt’s keynote at Stanford AI conference

Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images A Stanford University artificial intelligence conference invited former Google CEO and Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt to give a keynote speech next month. But a group of academics, activists, and current Google employees are urging organizers to reconsider the decision — citing Schmidt’s acceptance of censorship in China and his handling

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Give Yourself a Crappy Reward

Rewarding yourself can backfire. If you tell yourself “I’ll only listen to my favorite podcast while I’m at the gym,” it takes just one moment of weakness to realize you can cheat and listen to it any time you want. Instead, try this: Reward yourself with something that has no enjoyment value whatsoever. Like a…

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Learn How Your Investments Might Perform Based on Your Ratio of Stocks to Bonds

When markets get volatile, people start wondering whether they should sell their stocks or move more of their money into bonds. Before you make your next investment decision, it’s worth looking at how different ratios of stocks to bonds have performed over time—understanding, of course, that oft-repeated investing… Read more… Learn How Your Investments Might

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California adopted the country’s first major consumer privacy law. Now, Silicon Valley is trying to rewrite it.

Adopted last year, the California Consumer Privacy Act grants web users the right to see the personal information that companies collect about them and stop it from being sold. But powerful business organizations representing retailers, marketers and tech giants are seeking sweeping revisions before the law goes into effect. California adopted the country’s first major

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