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By Alessandra Malito Many adults don't even know when they're using AI technology You already know not to click on suspicious emails, and to ignore those typo-laden texts claiming to be from a delivery service with an undeliverable package. Now fraudsters have found a way to take scam phone calls to the next level. These are similar to typical phone scams, where you get a call from someone claiming to be a grandchild in trouble who needs money or someone impersonating a relative seeking an investment. But now scammers are becoming more sophisticated with the use of artificial intelligence. Read: Sam Altman ousted from OpenAI, hired at Microsoft: What we know so far Fraudsters are able to use technology to replicate a person's voice, and then use it against someone in what becomes a moment of panic. Older Americans tend to be popular targets for scammers. Adults over 60 years old lost $3.1 billion in 2022, up 84% from the year ...

The official Apple Black Friday deals are now live on apple.com. As usual, Apple special offer is a free gift card (worth up to $200 in value) with the purchase of an eligible hardware product including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and some Beats headphones. Amazon offers free money $15 Amazon gift card with purchase of a $100 Apple Gift card. The gift cards are a nice perk if you really want to buy from Apple directly, but you'll be able to find bigger and better discounts from other retailers, like this $1049 M2 MacBook Air or 22% off the price off a base model iPad on Amazon. Check out 9to5Toys for the latest best value deals. In most cases, the deals from other stores will not only beat the value of the gift card offered by the Apple Store, but also as a direct discount on the purchase price. For Apple's deals, the price of the product you buy remains the same, but you get a gift card (up to $200) which c...

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here . Dear Care and Feeding, My fiancé and I are at odds about what to do with his ex. His 7-year-old son spends 90 percent of his time with us or his maternal grandparents, but his ex still pockets the child support to fuel her party lifestyle. We cover the clothes, school supplies, medical expenses, food, and extracurricular costs, and split the cost of groceries with the grandparents when his son is over there. We barely make ends meet at the end of the month, while his ex goes on shopping sprees all the time (she is a social media addict). I am tired of pinching pennies and worrying if the car is going to last until we can earn some overtime. I want to go back to court and get the custody order to reflect reality here. My fiancé keeps balking because he doesn't want to upset the grandparents and believes the court will always favor the mother. I pointed out that...

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CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Investments gone bad. Jim Wilkerson of Cary is out more than $750,000 after he thought he found a great investment opportunity. He's sharing his story hoping to prevent others from his financial heartbreak. "You feel pretty ashamed of yourself when something like this happens," Wilkerson said to Troubleshooter Diane Wilson. This whole things started when Wilkerson was contacted on LinkedIn about an investment opportunity. "This person said, well, you know, those gold futures -- and I did some reading up on it -- are risky, but it's a very high return. So, OK, I'll take a shot, it can't hurt," he recalled. SEE ALSO | Robotexts: Scam text messages on the rise, swindling more money from Americans Scam texts are happening more frequently than ever before. Here are some tips to avoid them as well as robocalls. How it worked was Wilkerson took his money, transferred it to a legitimate crypto trading platform, and then said he invested ...

By Andrew Keshner The IRS is holding off on implementing new tax rules that could affect Etsy, eBay and PayPal users. The Internal Revenue Service is delaying a tax-reporting rule that would have required payment platforms including eBay and PayPal to send out scores of potentially confusing tax forms to their users. For a second straight year, the federal tax collector is holding off on implementing a rule that would have required certain payment platforms to send tax forms to platform users who got at least $600 for the sale of goods and services. Until two years ago, only users who made at least 200 transactions totaling $20,000 and above on the platforms were sent the form, known as 1099-K. But in 2021, Congress authorized a $600 threshold, touching off concerns that the platforms' users could face tax headaches. The existing $20,000 threshold for the 1099-K forms is the one in use for the upcoming tax season. The IRS says...

Most venture capitalists in the K-12 world are focused on bringing in strong returns and positive impacts to schools. Jason Palmer is now turning to something strikingly different: a campaign for the nation's highest office. A general partner at New Markets Venture Partners and a former deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Palmer recently announced he's seeking the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential race in 2024. "The main thing that we're hoping to accomplish is to change the national discussion. It's been a lot of yelling, and not a lot of collaborative dialogue and discussion," Palmer said in an interview this week. "That's really important to me, as somebody who cares a lot about education, cares a lot about civil society, and cares a lot about our country. We want to raise the caliber of the national...