A Health Savings Account or HSA is a medical savings account that is attached to a high deductible health insurance plan.  It can be a savvy way to save money by reducing your overall medical spending.  It can also have compelling retirement savings benefits. Money can be deferred into an …

At ISSCC last week (that’s the International Solid-State Circuits Conference), AMD spoke about the design considerations that led to its Epyc server processors and why the company is confident that its approach to server CPU development will yield significant dividends compared with Intel’s practices. While both companies compete in the …

Most of your cells contain a complete set of instructions to build a person stored in DNA. Scientists have worked for years on developing a storage technology that could harness the incredible density of DNA to store other types of data, but it’s been slow going. Now, a team from …

Photo: Twenty20 When most of us think about exercising with lower back pain, we think about workarounds. As in, “is that squat going to hurt? And what variations can I sub in to prevent a flare-up?” But, according to new research, we should actually be asking, “what can I do …

An international team of marine biologists from the United States and Belize has confirmed that sixgill sharks residing in the Atlantic Ocean are a different species than their counterparts in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The team’s findings were published online this month in the journal Marine Biodiversity. An adult …

A team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and the University of Turku, Finland, has investigated the personality structure of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and discovered that personality in these elephants manifests through three different factors: attentiveness, sociability, and aggressiveness. Seltmann et al studied Asian timber elephants in …

YC-backed startup Proven wants to make it suck less for women to find skincare that works for them. The co-founders are taking what they describe as a “rational, logic-based” approach to figuring out which ingredients might be most appropriate for each individual. As a TC Disrupt battlefield founder once memorably put …

Jon Gruden: Raiders need ‘full-time’ Marshawn Lynch Where does Marshawn Lynch stand in the eyes of the NFL’s highest-paid coach? Although Jon Gruden stated last week that he’s “counting on” Lynch as the leading ball carrier, the Raiders’ new on-field boss also conceded that the 31-year-old back’s return is an …

Today, digital marketers believe they have to choose between scale and precision targeting. Oracle Data Cloud offers proof that they don’t have to. The more relevant the audience, the stronger the campaign performance will be. While we’ve found that maximizing reach is important, it’s all about Relevant Reach. Learn how …

As someone who works regularly with small businesses, I am frequently asked: “Should I advertise on Yelp”? Since this came up again recently, I thought I would share my insights and experience in hopes my answer helps someone else. Yelps makes it hard The last person asking about Yelp owns a …