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It will end in 2027: Riester pension from age 50: For whom it is still worth getting started

State subsidies make the Riester pension attractive for some - but high costs can reduce the return. For those aged 50 or over, the degree can still be worthwhile.

With asterisks and waves: For a better overview: Quickly format WhatsApp texts

Bold, italicized or crossed out: With simple character formatting, messages and chats become clearer in no time - not just in WhatsApp.

Car test: Cool counterattack from Sweden: This is how the EX60 pushes forward

There's a surprise guest in the race for possibly the best electric SUV. Quietly and quietly, as is their wont, Volvo drives competitors like BMW and Mercedes into the parade with the EX60.

Deutsche Bahn: Rail punctuality in May just over 60 percent

More than one in three long-distance trains were late last month. Nevertheless, the target mark is kept close.

5 technology tips for the football festival: World Cup at home: How to avoid delays and image problems

Celebration next door before you've even seen the goal: a classic spoiler that you can avoid at the World Cup - just like a puny or lousy picture. Also: How to record games.

Making decisions: Go with your gut feeling with a coin toss

Unsure about important decisions? This trick shows how you can better perceive your subconscious - and why it's not just a matter of chance.

Psychology of intuition: How reliable is our gut feeling really?

Whether in a relationship or in everyday life: many people rely on their gut feeling in certain situations. How reliable this inner compass is and how intuition can be trained.

Compensating for the pension gap: Making provisions for old age at 50 plus: This is how it works

Better late than never: Even if you're over 50, there are still ways to make private provisions for retirement. Which options make sense - and which are not suitable.

Alphabet asks shareholders to foot an $80 billion bill for AI expansion

Berkshire Hathaway is buying Alphabet’s stock at a discount as part of a newly announced equity offering.

Trump heavily criticized: Media: Trump backtracks on controversial victims' fund

Trump said justice victims must be compensated. Critics suspect that his fund is a reward instrument for loyalists. Now, according to reports, the Trump administration is backpedaling.

Guyana Emerges as an Oil Winner in the Iran War

In just seven years, Guyana has become one of the fastest-growing oil exporters and global economies and an oil-producing powerhouse with nearly 1 million barrels per day of production capacity. And the war in Iran is only turning up the heat even more. Since ExxonMobil launched production from the offshore Stabroek block in 2019, Guyana’s economy has quadrupled. Oil revenues and royalties have boosted income for the state coffers and gross domestic product (GDP) linked with oil-related activiti

China urges Brazil to jointly repel ‘external challenges’ as ties deepen in Beijing

China’s top diplomat said on Monday that Beijing and Brasilia should “jointly repel external challenges”, as the two countries opened a high-level strategic dialogue in Beijing. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remark during a visit by his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, who arrived in the Chinese capital this weekend for the fifth Global Strategic Dialogue between the two governments. “Practical cooperation in all areas has been steadily enhanced, and the two peoples have never been so...

Tech: Alphabet wants to raise $80 billion for AI expansion on the capital market

The Google Group is financing its investments in AI through an extensive capital measure. In addition to stock issues, Berkshire Hathaway is investing billions.

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Artificial intelligence: AI boom brings HPE record quarter - shares up 36 percent

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is benefiting from massive demand for servers and data center equipment. Sales increased by 40 percent.

OpenAI’s next legal battle is against states that claim its models are dangerous

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI for putting children at risk, and said other states will likely also launch legal actions.

Philippines’ bet on shaky investment pledges from the US risks China’s ire

“You have absolutely no idea of what you’re talking about. The whole point of Pax Silica is to partner with countries who are good at doing different things because everyone wins from a secure supply chain,” wrote US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg on a social media website in response to an online critic of the US strategic initiative with the Philippines. The spirited exchange came after Manila’s reported rejection of a request to extend diplomatic immunity to US...

Many big oil tankers remain stuck in the Strait of Hormuz — and may not return once they escape

There’s doubt massive tankers, once the backbone of global crude flows, will be returning in quite the same numbers to the Middle East.

Why do “reputable” websites allow blatant financial fraud?

I hope I can post this here. Brief background: Recently my father came to me and said he had found a great offer for fixed-term deposits online and had registered somewhere with his email and telephone number. An employee promptly contacted him and sent him an alleged fixed-term deposit offer from Santander by email. I then took a closer look at it and with a little research I came across a warning from BaFin about this intermediary. Of course I have you

Left-center coalition: Frederiksen stays: Denmark gets a four-party government

Breakthrough after long government negotiations in Denmark: Social Democrat Mette Frederiksen has agreed on a coalition with three other parties. This means she remains head of government.

Bring your own plastic: Japan's takeout shops face container, bag shortages

Japan's Kioxia to take on Samsung with wafer-bonding tech in memory race

Trump is turning Taiwan into a bargaining chip

SoftBank's Son looks to tackle AI's power problem with France data centers

Young Malaysians reinvent the family business playbook to survive

ServiceNow, Uipath or Lenovo

Which one do you think has the most value? They are have all been performing well for the last month ServiceNow has transformed its platform into an AI-first enterprise system. The SaaS drawdown is now making a recovery. Lenovo is the largest pc manufacturer and is now hitting record earnings as it transformed into an AI infrastructure company Path is a software company that develops AI and agentic automation and orchestration software but wasn't mentioned yesterday at the nvda conference while

Berkshire invests extra $10 billion in Alphabet, deepening bet on AI

HPE skyrockets 30% on biggest earnings beat since 2018

HPE's blowout second-quarter earnings report was highlighted by a strong Cloud & AI segment that showed soaring server revenue.

There's Enough Hydrogen Underground to Power Earth for 170,000 Years

Green hydrogen has been hyped as a silver bullet solution to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors like steelmaking and industrial shipping for decades now. It can be combusted at high heats like fossil fuels, but leaves behind nothing but water vapor when it burns, rather than world-heating greenhouse gas emissions. So why does green hydrogen still represent less than one percent of all hydrogen production in the United States? The simple answer is that producing green hydrogen is expensive, and us

Investors are piling into bullish options bets — another sign that the stock market is getting overheated

Investors’ aggressive buying of bullish call options has become yet another indication of just how frothy the U.S. equity market is becoming.