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There’s no getting around it: traveling abroad is expensive. Long flights, hotel rooms, and eating out add up quickly, and it’s incredibly easy to blow your budget. But there are ways to mitigate some unavoidable expenses. Love traveling but don’t love spending a lot of cash? Read on! Don’t Pay for Too Many Things in […]
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Modern arguments around educational technology tend towards binary positions — usually for or against; this “position taking” makes the design of educational technology inaccessible because we’re not considering design, but rather positions. There are few compelling arguments against technology as learning tools, though even that depends on what students are learning and why. We usually […]
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The financial services industry has traditionally been a decidedly unsexy one, lacking the trendy trappings of the tech world. Massively hyped concert-like product announcements, hip conferences replete with famous musical headliners, open offices, beer on draft, and so-called unicorn companies have all been the domain of the tech industry. While some of those things will […]
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Back in the old days, if you wanted to start your own business, you had to secure funding so that you could open a storefront or rent an office to work. Thankfully, it’s never been easier to start an online business. However, just because it’s much easier doesn’t mean that you should jump into anything […]
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“People are doing whatever they can to avoid advertising.” Ricky Ray Butler is CEO at Branded Entertainment Network (BEN) and was speaking at a lively panel discussion about AI’s progressive role in entertainment at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. “Look at Netflix and Amazon Prime, they’re exploding. The viewer is in control, they only […]
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January brings new beginnings. From resolutions and crowded gyms, to diets, and promises to do or be better at just about everything, January is also, and we think most importantly, Financial Wellness Month. Wellness has taken the #trend charts by storm and, while fitbits, juice cleanses, and yoga classes are indeed part of the wellness […]
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Wherever we go, no matter what we do, we simply can’t afford to do without entertainment. Different communities and countries worldwide have different ways of keeping themselves entertained even in the most unexpected ways. In our case, we want to take a deeper look into how much the digital era has evolved regarding entertainment. We […]
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There is widespread concern today that many jobs will be lost to new computer technologies as more human tasks can be performed by machines. A host of recent papers estimate that these technologies put anywhere from 9% of jobs to 47% at risk of automation in the near future. Some people argue that this expansion […]
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Medical technology has come a long way since the invention of eyeglasses and the stethoscope. The broader availability of mobile internet, the expansion of a more affluent middle class, and an aging global population are all driving change in the healthcare industry, and the associated technology is changing faster than ever before. According to a […]
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