The way airlines board planes affects how easily bugs are spread among passengers

IT IS an often-heard office conversation. Someone returns from a trip with a nasty bug, and colleagues say he must have caught it from a germ-ridden plane. It is not unusual to come come down with something nasty after flying. And as a fellow Gulliver reported last...

There is one big silver lining that comes with Trump’s troubles: Tax cut odds may be going UP

It seems the more turmoil and dysfunction there is in Washington, the higher odds Wall Street gives tax legislation. Last week may have been one of the worst of the Trump presidency with President Donald Trump coming under a firestorm of criticism for his reaction to...

Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger says the key to wisdom is a habit anyone can form

Take the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, who reads 50 books a year, or Buffett, who spends as much as 80 percent of his day reading. As for Munger, he started the habit as a kid, he tells Janet Lowe in her book “Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with...

Ahead of big events from Samsung and Apple, Google reveals new update, Android Oreo

Google’s latest operating system update now has a name: Android Oreo. It’s all on top of the artificial intelligence software push Google announced earlier this year at its annual developer conference, Google I/O. Google said in May that it would improve...