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A graph displaying the Apple stock price on a smartphone app.Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesRetail investors have had a gangbuster year in 2025.Mom-and-pop investors bought the dip at key points this year, providing strong returns as the market climbed to all-time highs. Once thought of as unsophisticated and easily duped, a new breed of retail investor is giving the professionals who have long dismissed them a run for their money, according to investors and market data analysts interviewed by CNBC. “Retail is just getting smarter, and they’re getting hardened to the market,” said Mark Malek, investing chief at…

With the year coming to a close, now’s a good time to set yourself up for a cleaner, more organized start in 2026. The Dreame X40 Ultra — one of our favorite robot vacuum deals from Black Friday — can handle most of the heavy lifting for you, and it’s once again on sale. You can currently buy it for $503 ($697 off) at Amazon at checkout, which is just $4 more than its record low price set during Black Friday.Before the Dreame X50 Ultra took its place, the X40 Ultra was our favorite robovac / mop hybrid for hard…

Dec 31, 2025, 07:00 AM ETIt’s been a busy year already, with a jam-packed 2025-26 NBA regular season picking up pace as we head into the new year.It’s a close race at the top of the East with the Detroit Pistons holding strong at No. 1 after an explosive start to the season. But the New York Knicks are not far behind. After winning the third annual NBA Cup, the Knicks are sporting the No. 3 best offense in the league in December.In the West, despite the Oklahoma City Thunder losing more games this month than they did the entire…

The fight for net neutrality never seems to be truly won or lost.Federal net neutrality rules have been on and off for the past 15 years. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the Open Internet Order under President Barack Obama in 2010, prohibiting ISPs from blocking or throttling lawful internet traffic, the baseline rule of net neutrality. Then, at the request of those ISPs, a court blocked its rules. An updated framework was passed by the FCC in 2015, only to be overturned in 2017 under President Donald Trump’s first administration. It seemed poised for a comeback in 2024, but…

Editor’s note: To mark the death of Jacqueline de Ribes, we are publishing the Jean Paul Gaultier show she inspired, Divine Jacqueline. This spring 1999 couture collection was presented in Paris on January 17, 1999.In 1999 Jean Paul Gaultier was one of the only French designers showing at couture, which had recently been infiltrated by the London upstarts Alexander Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Though he’s always claimed to feel constrained by the confines of Parisian bourgeois good taste, Gaultier—who likes to play with Gallic stereotypes—has, nevertheless, been a kind of protector of French style. That much was evident in…

Tade Oyerinde and Teddy Solomon know a few things about building communities that last.   Afterall, Oyerinde is the founder and chancellor of the online school Campus, while Solomon is the co-founder behind the college social app Fizz.  The two spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt this year, breaking down the strategies that helped them scale their companies while retaining consumer interest.  Campus offers associate degrees in areas like information technology and business administration. It also offers certificates in specialities like cosmetology and phlebotomy. There are more than 3,000 students enrolled in Campus, and it employs more than 100 professors on at least a part-time basis, Oyerinde says.   Oyerinde said Campus decided to launch à la carte courses since…

Want more posts like this in your life? Join the Tiny Buddha list for daily or weekly insights. “The way you look at things is the most powerful force shaping your life.” ~John O’Donohue As often happens at this time of year, I recently found myself lamenting how quickly time had passed. In this agitated headspace, the myriad of goals I did not accomplish and the numerous targets I did not reach sprang to the forefront of my mind. Though unwelcome and unhelpful, these thoughts pushed their way into my internal dialogue, reinforcing themselves by collecting evidence of where I’d…

The transfer portal is about to open up for college football players, and Penn State wide receiver Kaden Saunders is preparing to step into it.According to a report from Pete Nakos of On3, Saunders is expected to enter his name in the NCAA transfer portal.AdvertisementSaunders came to Penn State in the Class of 2022 as a four-star wide receiver, but he never quite managed to stay on the field in any meaningful role. Saunders did not catch a single pass in each of the past two seasons despite wide receiver being a position in need of production. Penn State went…

While the link between poor sleep and dementia has long been known, it was unclear whether poor sleep habits could cause dementia or whether poor sleep was an early symptom of dementia. However, new research has revealed that sleep quality may have a direct impact on the rate at which the brain ages.”Our findings provide evidence that poor sleep may contribute to accelerated brain aging,” explains Abigail Dove, a neuroepidemiologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, “and point to inflammation as one of the underlying mechanisms.”High Correlation With Night-Owl Lifestyle and SnoringThe researchers assessed the quality of their sleep across…

On Dec. 8, Federal prosecutors in Texas unsealed documents that revealed an investigation into a massive smuggling network that stretched across the U.S. and the world. Dubbed “Operation Gatekeeper” by the feds, the investigation wasn’t focused on drug smuggling or stolen goods but rather an alleged secret, underground network of suppliers for Nvidia’s graphic processing units, or GPUs. Such chips are the backbone of the AI race, and can be used for military or civilian purposes. The government said a hidden smuggling ring was sending chips to China in defiance of American national security export control laws. The smuggling syndicate…