The tax preparation software industry relied on brand familiarity and long-standing features to retain customers for years. But a combination of shifting user expectations, new competitors offering free services, and economic headwinds has challenged even the most established players to rethink their approach. In a category where complexity can drive customers away, simplicity has become […]
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Frank Bongiorno reviews a collection of essays by Australia’s thought leaders considering how we might create a better future.
The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.
Two experts describe how climate misinformation has infiltrated the election campaign – and how Australians can protect themselves as they head to the polls.
The Beyond Tomorrow Conference made a huge splash last year, so it is unsurprising that this year’s edition was highly anticipated. More than 450 delegates and 30 distinguished speakers attended the prestigious event to thrash out issues relating to the future of payments in Australia. Themed ‘Unleashing Opportunities’, industry leaders, financial experts and technology innovators […] The post Beyond Tomorrow Conference Showcases Digital Payment Developments appeared first on Today News.
As the Trump administration ramps up what academics call a “war on science,” US researchers are increasingly looking to Europe for new opportunities — which could be good news for the continent’s tech sectors.
I was going to share with you part two of my spring letter to IMA clients. What was supposed to be a few paragraphs turned into four pages. Consider yourself warned: This is going to read like a rant – because it is. I wrote it early this morning, as a stream of consciousness. I…
WASHINGTON — Beginning early next month, the roughly 5.3 million people who are currently in default on their federal student loans are going to be hearing from the Education Department. “The government can and will collect defaulted federal student loan debt by withholding … tax refunds, federal pensions and even their wages,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during an afternoon briefing on Tuesday. She was reiterating an announcement by the Education Department that May 5 will be the official end of a period of leniency for those with federal student loan debt that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Donald Trump paused both loan payments and interest accrual on those loans in March 2020 in response to the then-spreading pandemic, and former President Joe Biden extended that policy through October 2024. In the interim, the Biden administration also tried to flat-out forgive many of those loans, only to see its efforts blocked by the courts. On Monday, Education Secretary
WASHINGTON — A pair of bills introduced in the Senate aim to permanently block oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The combo package of legislations includes the West Coast Ocean Protection Act, introduced by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and the Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act, introduced by Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J. and Jack Reed, D-R.I. Padilla’s bill would permanently prohibit new oil and gas leases for offshore drilling off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington state. The Booker and Reed bill would permanently bar the Interior Department or any of its agencies from issuing leases for the exploration, development, or production of oil and gas in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida Planning Areas of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, are leading compani
Ukraine’s national pavilion at the World Expo 2025 in Japan’s Osaka has showcased a book published by the Kharkiv-based printing house, Faktor-Druk, which had re-opened following Russia’s missile attack on May 23, 2024.