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Energy

A current and future growing tech challenge: Computer chips are using too much energy. On today’s trajectory, by 2040 the energy required for global computing would exceed the world’s estimated energy production. This worst-case scenario is probably unlikely, but it...

Space

It is amazing to believe but there is one Trump administration priority that will persist under President Biden: The return of manned missions to the moon and, eventually, to Mars under the Artemis program, now the first human deep-space exploration effort with...

Contactless payments

With the outbreak of the pandemic, more people have moved to contactless payments.  Primarily contactless credit cards, which have a special chip that allows users to pay for a transaction simply by putting their card close to a payment terminal, rather than inserting...

Emotional Support Animals

Finally the feds are cracking down on emotional support animals on airplanes. Here is an example of a “good idea” turned bad. In a new ruling, the Department of Transportation defines a service animal as a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks...

Emergency fund

The emergency fund is one of the basics of long-term financial planning, but as an accountant when I touch base with my clients and ask them about the status of their financial wellbeing, I find that the verdict is split, some don’t really have one.  Granted this is...

Shoplifting

Shoplifting has essentially been decriminalized, by Progressives in California for years they have weakened property rights and retailers that apprehend thieves can be sued. In California, in short, trying to protect one’s property can be a criminal offense. Looters,...

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