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One Tech Tip: A new generation is reviving the iPod for distraction-free listening
Remember the iPod? It's making a quiet comeback.
Four years after Apple killed off its digital music player, secondhand sales are surging. It's fueled in part by young people interested not just in its retro looks but a desire to listen to music in a focused way and with playlists not determined by algorithms.
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Gift Tax Returns and 529s
That's the big difference between income taxes and gift taxes. The recipient is not subject to gift taxes; the donor is. Nor is the gift taxable to the recipient as "income."
When Congress proposed gift taxes in the 1920s, the idea was to prevent people from depleting their estates -- and avoiding estate taxes -- by g ... (full story)
A 1.9 billion-year-old bedrock will soon house the world's first permanent nuclear waste site
OLKILUOTO, Finland (AP) — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo.
“We are now at about minus 430 meters (1,411 feet),” muttered geologist Tuomas Pere as he steered a car through a labyrinth of man-made tunnels. “We are driving through ... (full story)
Why 'unretired' seniors are picking up gig work to pay the bills
PLAINVIEW, New York (AP) — Before Stu Goldberg begins his night shift driving for Uber, he pulls out a notebook to read a handwritten list of reminders. “No tickets. Full stops,” he'd scrawled in the book. “Careful backing up. Watch for pedestrians and bikes.”
With a Ph.D in neuropsychology and deca ... (full story)
Tailors age out of the workforce even as demand for their skills grows
NEW YORK (AP) — Hunched over a sewing machine, Kil Bae is hemming a dress inside his Manhattan tailor shop when a new customer stops by with a vintage Tommy Hilfiger jacket he wants taken in.
The modeling agent paid $20 at a thrift store for his reversible bomber style that's plaid on one side and red on the other. He's wi ... (full story)