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Friends and family could get lost in digital purgatory after you pass away unless you take some simple steps. Most people have accumulated a pile of data — selfies, emails, videos and more — on their social media and digital accounts over their lifetimes. What happens to it when we die?

Each job switch sees a median 10% increase in pay but a drop of 0.7 percentage point in their retirement saving rate. Job hopping is one of the best ways workers have to increase their pay, and a surprisingly solid job market means they still have opportunities. That’s great news for workers, but remember: Make sure you’re setting aside as much into your new 401(k) plan as your old one.

Take Take Take, a new chess-viewing platform from the Norwegian grandmaster, wants to get casual chess players engaged in tournament broadcasts. At 24, Kaja Snare didn’t imagine she had a future in chess; she barely played the game. But in 2014, when she was a rookie sports reporter for TV2, Norway’s second-largest broadcast network, her bosses assigned her to cover a chess tournament featuring Magnus Carlsen, who was then a 23-year-old Norwegian phenom. 

Freeing people of a long, unproductive, and expensive journey can yield immediate boosts to employee productivity and happiness. When was the last time someone sat in endless gridlock or rushed to catch the train as part of their long, stressful morning commute to work and thought “Oh, this is nice?” When so many can now choose how and where they work, a long daily commute to a faraway office no longer makes sense.

Hiring a social worker has enabled East Atlanta Village to resolve conflicts gently, through conversation and negotiation. Homelessness has surged across the U. S. in recent years, rising 19% from 2016 though 2023. The main cause is a severe shortage of affordable housing. Rising homelessness has renewed debates about use of public space and how encampments affect public safety.

When shrewd photographers realized that the inconvenience of long exposure time could become an asset, detailed directions for creating these illusions proliferated. October has long been associated with ghosts—from ancient Celtic festivals to ward off restless spirits after harvest time to the modern standby of using an old sheet to make a last-minute Halloween costume.