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The home is increasingly becoming a command hub for all kinds of smart technology and smart power. One major component of that, however, is not very smart at all: the electric panel. It hasn’t changed much in about 75 years. With electrical power for home, vehicle, solar and battery backup …

Zeynepkaya | E+ | Getty Images It’s an especially expensive time for people with credit card debt, and the pain will likely only worsen with another expected interest rate hike coming from the Federal Reserve this week. Interest charges on credit cards tend to move with the Fed’s benchmark rate. …

A bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday with updates that aimed to address concerns that the bill could inadvertently cause more harm to the young internet users it seeks to protect. But some activists who raised those issues say the changes are still insufficient. …

A Pacific Western Bank branch in Los Angeles, California, US, on Friday, March 10, 2023. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Regional bank stocks fell sharply Tuesday as the fallout from the third major bank failure this year continued to put pressure on the sector. Shares of PacWest fell …

The sun sets on the skyline of midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building in New York City on April 23, 2023, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images New York state is poised to become the first state in the country …

Barbara Corcoran says the “biggest negotiation of her entire life” came from pure luck. The millionaire investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank” recently took to TikTok to dish about selling The Corcoran Group, a real estate firm she founded at age 23. Nearly three decades later, she flipped it to brokerage …

Some consider April 5 equal pay day for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women, marking the point into the new year that the average AAPI woman has to work to make the same pay white men earned in 2022. In other words, an AAPI woman has to work …

Apple AirTag Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple and Google said on Tuesday that they were working together to prevent lost item trackers like Apple’s AirTag from being used to track people without their permission. The companies came together to draft a new industry standard that will add the ability to …

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at a product launch event in San Francisco, California on September 26, 2019. Philip Pacheco | AFP via Getty Images Shares of Uber popped 9% in premarket trading Tuesday after the company reported first-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations for revenue. Here’s how the company did: …

BP, which in 2020 set out its ambition to become a net zero company “by 2050 or sooner,” has drawn sharp criticism for scaling back its emission reduction targets in the wake of record profits. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oil major BP on Tuesday reported …