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By Sara Rathner | NerdWallet As you’re growing up, you learn about money from the people who raise you. Their lessons are based on their life experiences, which means there’s likely some bias built in. That’s not necessarily a bad thing — you may have a savvy aunt who taught herself to manage her own money after a divorce, or a parent who cautioned you about debt because they struggled to pay down theirs. Hearing their stories can spare you from making financial mistakes. Even with all that history, though, you’re likely…

Wendy Lee | Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Four years ago, Netflix was faced with a formidable challenge to its dominance. Competitors including Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. Discovery invested billions of dollars to chip away at Netflix’s market share by launching splashy shows on their own streaming services. For a time, it seemed that Netflix was vulnerable. The company lost subscribers for two straight quarters in 2022 despite gargantuan spending, raising concerns that its growth had plateaued. But lately…

Prince Harry’s wild 2012 trip to Las Vegas — when he and his army mates played strip pool with a group of “blackjack girls” before his second deployment to Afghanistan — may be coming back to haunt him, just as he predicted. A former dominatrix and model, who said she partied with the Duke of Sussex in Las Vegas, has threatened to publish nude photos of him on her OnlyFans page, The Sun reported. “I have some nice ­pictures of him in the buff,” Carrie Royale told The Sun about the notorious episode. Secretly snapped nude…

Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) have reached a new high in daily trading volumes, surpassing the $10 billion mark. This surge in activity comes amid a period of significant price volatility for Bitcoin (BTC), which saw its value oscillate by $10,000 between $59,000 and $69,000 on March 6. The trading frenzy underscores the growing interest and participation in cryptocurrency-based financial products.   BlackRock’s spot #Bitcoin ETF becomes the fastest ETF in history to accumulate $10 billion in AUM. —…

When it comes to the best westerns in modern moviemaking, actor/director Kevin Costner is one of the titans that casts a pretty large genre shadow. The 2024 movie schedule is only going to build that image up even greater, thanks to his new epic film series Horizon: An American Saga. That task is now apparently more of a family business, as Costner revealed in a sweet post on social media that his own son is a part of Horizon's stacked cast. Taking to his personal Instagram, Kevin Costner showed off a section of footage…

Instagram, the social media platform, recently added a new feature to its iOS app that will make clicking and posting Stories faster than before. The app now comes with a new lock screen widget that will directly open the Story Camera and allow users to click a picture or shoot a video and post it as a Story. Instagram is reportedly working on multiple new features. An earlier report highlighted that the company is bringing a Friend Map feature, which could be similar to how Snap Map functions.The new widget was added…

NEW YORK — Komal Vilas Thatkare says she doesn’t have anyone to ask about her most private health questions. “There are only men in my home — no ladies,” said the 32-year-old mother and housewife in Mumbai. “I don’t speak to anyone here. So I used this app as it helps me in my personal problems.” The app she uses is powered by artificial intelligence running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT model, that Myna Mahila Foundation, a local women’s organization, is developing. Thatkare asks the Myna Bolo chatbot questions and it offers…

The ominous messages began arriving in Elissa’s inbox early last year. “You sell pics of your underage daughter to pedophiles,” read one. “You’re such a naughty sick mom, you’re just as sick as us pedophiles,” read another. “I will make your life hell for you and your daughter.” Elissa has been running her daughter’s Instagram account since 2020, when the girl was 11 and too young to have her own. Photos show a bright, bubbly girl modeling evening dresses, high-end workout gear and dance leotards. She has more than…

Hailey Bieber penned a heartwarming birthday wish for the `love of her life` -- Justin Bieber, as the latter has turned 30.The model posted a carousel of pictures and a video of Justin, in celebration of his 30th birthday, on Instagram, reports ‘Mirror.co.uk’. This comes after her father, Stephen Baldwin, posted an Instagram story, where he begged for prayers for his daughter and son-in-law. Hailey wrote in the caption: "30!!!!!!!????!!????!!! that was fast. words could never truly describe the beauty of who…

A day after a grim-faced Justin and Hailey Bieber were photographed attending services at their local Beverly Hills megachurch, a conservative Christian YouTube minister removed the Instagram post that initially sparked this week’s speculation about the health of their marriage. Hailey Bieber reportedly, and understandably, was unhappy about reports that she and Justin were dealing with “something” in their marriage — and about her father’s role in encouraging the speculation, according to TMZ. Earlier this week, Stephen…