Microsoft unveiled a new version of the HoloLens augmented-reality headset, which can overlay instructions to guide workers through tasks, at Mobile World Congress on Sunday. Visionaries behind augmented-reality headsets have promised gee-whiz futures where wearers can zip holograms away with a flick of the wrist and battle digital baddies amassing around workplace cubicles.Microsoft Corp is se...

The cybersecurity talent shortage has driven up salaries. A look at who’s making what. Upward pressure on pay for cybersecurity talent is likely to continue amid high demand and limited supply.Cybercrime may or may not pay, but one thing is certain: Cybersecurity pays very well.A shortage of talent is driving up salaries in the field as companies continue to bulk up their cybersecurity rosters...

Imagine that for every second that passes, your bank account inches up $1.[click to enlarge]You’d be making $60 per minute, or the equivalent of $86,400 in a day. Over the course of a year, you’d roll in a solid $31.5 million of profit.While this would be prolific for almost any person or company in the world – the truth is that for many of America’s top companies, this amount of profit wou...

Walmart on Monday launched "Hello Bello," an exclusive line of plant-derived baby products developed by husband-and-wife duo Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, who are parents themselves.The 10 products — diapers, wipes, shampoo and body wash, bubble bath, baby lotion, diaper rash cream, hand sanitizer, mineral sunscreen, bug spray and laundry detergent — are "formulated with safe and effective in...

Counting the Cost of Valentine's Day.Infographic : https://cdn.moneytips.com/logo/24920__vmaster_v138.jpeg[moneytips]

Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This February-ish roundup lands on the beautiful Snow Moon!Since my last post, the US patent office issued over 33,041 patents and published over 32,2...

Innovators are designing air taxis and delivery drones. But these won’t take flight unless stakeholders accelerate investment in air-mobility infrastructure.Traffic congestion forces US drivers to waste more than three billion gallons of fuel and keeps them trapped in their cars for almost seven billion extra hours each year.1 Much of that time might involve dreaming of a trip to work that doe...

Autonomous vehicles could use parking lots more efficiently, but also worsen gridlock.Autonomous vehicles could transform parking as well as driving, new research suggests. Parking lots could house more driverless cars than human-driven ones, but autonomous vehicles could also lead to nightmarish gridlock if they slowly cruise the streets waiting for their owners, instead of paying to park.The...

For most investors, 2018 was both an eventful and frustrating year.Between the looming threat of trade wars and growing geopolitical uncertainty, the market also skipped a beat. Volatility took center stage, and the S&P 500 finished in negative territory for the first time in 10 years.Although many asset classes finished in negative territory, a look at fund flows – essentially where inves...