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When the Internet is crawling slowly, it is a good idea to be able to view your live internet speed on the Windows taskbar. When Chrome stops loading, YouTube pauses, or OneDrive slows everything down, you can instantly see if your connection is the problem. Windows 11 removed the API that older tools relied on to embed into the taskbar, so the working options are fewer than you would expect. The two below work reliably on Windows 11 and serve different needs. Using Net Speed Meter For Quick Glance Net Speed Meter comes straight from the Microsoft Store, so it…

Oil climbed to its highest price since June on Monday, as conflict in the Middle East brings with it an inherent risk to the world’s available crude supplies.

Key PointsIf you are pursuing PSLF or IDR forgiveness, months in SAVE forbearance do not directly count and could delay your loan forgiveness.If you plan to repay your loans in full, remaining in forbearance likely increases your total cost.Short-term payment relief can feel helpful, but for most borrowers it slows progress and raises long-term costs. When the SAVE plan was effectively sidelined and borrowers were placed into forbearance, it provided over 8 million borrowers with instant relief – no payment due, and no interest accruing.But then, in August 2025, interest started accruing again. And time in this forbearance doesn’t count…

As a frequent Telegram user, you may wish to keep some messages hidden from view without permanently deleting them. If you’re worried someone might gain access to your sensitive Telegram conversations, learn how you can keep them out of sight. 1. Archive Chats The easiest way to hide texts from view in Telegram without deleting them is to archive them. Open the Telegram mobile app and locate the conversation you wish to hide. Long-press on it until you see a few buttons appear in the upper-right side. Tap the Archive icon. In the Telegram desktop app, right-click on the conversation…

US manufacturing activity steady, factory gate inflation surges

High-yield savings account rates have held steady through the first quarter of 2026. In fact, some banks have even raised their rates!As of March 2, 2026, leading online banks are still offering interest rates up to 5.00% APY, but these top APYs are usually limited. This is still much better than the average of 0.39% APY, according to the FDIC.Banks and credit unions are constantly adjusting their annual percentage yields (APYs) as markets react to Federal Reserve policy and inflation data, so staying up to date can make a real difference. Here’s where the best savings rates stand today —…

It’s exciting to set up Plex, whether you’re running it on a PC or a NAS. The idea of hosting your own media server is empowering at first, but then the library starts growing. And that’s when the friction begins. Managing a Plex library manually gets exhausting because posters become inconsistent, collections break as metadata changes, and the homepage slowly turns into a mess you have to keep fixing. Kometa handles that maintenance layer. It pulls structured data from TMDb, IMDb, and Trakt to rebuild collections automatically based on defined rules. Kometa is a library management tool for people who…

Key PointsStudents from low-income families would see Cal Grants preserved, but many middle-income families would receive less help as the Middle Class Scholarship is cut by $541 million.Public colleges would receive base funding increases, though hundreds of millions in promised funds are deferred to future years, raising long-term uncertainty.Taxpayer dollars continue flowing heavily to higher education (more than $50 billion proposed) even as the state faces structural deficits exceeding $20 billion. When Gavin Newsom unveiled his $349 billion proposed budget for 2026-27 (PDF File), he presented it as a plan to protect and steady California’s public colleges during a period…

All of us have three main options to profit from AI: 1) Invest in the right AI companies. 2) Work for the right AI companies. 3) Invest in real estate that will benefit from the AI boom. Investing in the right AI companies is easier said than done. The gorillas like Google, Tesla, Nvidia have done well. But timing is also important. For example, you could have bought Nvidia at $197 a share on Feb 25, 2026 before reporting record results, only to lose 10% one week later. While firms like Meta and Tesla lost over 60% of its value…

I’ve been getting a lot of updates lately from operators I’ve invested with. And the tone has shifted. Not dramatically, but enough to notice. Distributions paused here. A refinance that didn’t go through there. Language that used to feel confident now feels careful. And here’s the thing. The properties are fine. Occupancy is solid. The markets are doing okay. On paper, nothing about the actual assets looks broken. But the deals are under stress. If you’ve been investing passively in real estate over the past few years, there’s a decent chance you’ve gotten a version of that same email. Maybe…