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☆ F.S.A. vs. H.S.A.: What to Know About the Accounts That Pay Medical Costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Ann Carrns | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Two types of accounts can help you pay for medical costs and have tax benefits, but both also have possible downsides, two recently published reports found. The two are flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts — better known as F.S.A.s and H.S.A.s. Workers set aside a fixed amount of money each year to be deducted from their paycheck before taxes, reducing their taxable income while helping them pay for out-of-pocket medical costs. But if workers change employers, the account doesn’t move with them. money on eligible care or products, although many employers offer grace periods or the option to roll over some funds from one year to the next.

Organizations: Workers

☆ Four bidders approved for Colombia 5G auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Flags flutter on the facade of the Colombian Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies building in Bogota, Colombia, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Luis Jaime Acosta/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBOGOTA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Four operators have been approved to participate in Colombia's auction to offer fifth-generation (5G) cellular data services, the communications ministry said. Telecall Colombia S.A.S., the fourth approved bidder, is a Brazilian telecoms coming looking to enter the Colombian market. The government expects to raise about $500 million via the Dec. 20 auction and join regional neighbors like Argentina and Mexico, where 5G is already available. Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Mark PorterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Luis Jaime Acosta, Julia Symmes Cobb, Mark Porter Organizations: Colombian Ministry of Information, Communications Technologies, REUTERS, Rights, Telefonica, Telecall, Thomson Locations: Bogota, Colombia, Rights BOGOTA, Claro, Telecall Colombia, Brazilian, Colombian, Argentina, Mexico

☆ The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Kim Tingley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

But the space-based medical science needed to make that possible has been hindered by small sample sizes that aren’t representative of the general population. As less-rigorous medical screening allows more tourists to reach space, the chances increase significantly that someone will get hurt or have a health emergency there. And if we survived those perils, wouldn’t escalating pressure in our skulls kill us after a week or so? Initially, many space travelers puke, or at least feel motion-sick — space-adaptation syndrome, or S.A.S., is what such nausea, headache and vomiting are called outside our atmosphere. symptoms in the 1970s, when they heard Skylab astronauts talking about it with one another over a hot mic.

Persons: Donoviel, TRISH, ” Donoviel, Yuri Gagarin, humanity’s, hadn’t, Gagarin, ”, Jan Stepanek, “, acclimate Organizations: Apollo, Institute, Space Health, Baylor College of Medicine, NASA, Aerospace, American Board of Preventive, Mayo Clinic Locations: Scottsdale, Ariz

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah, including a Lebanese man who officials say was involved in two deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s. The Iran-backed group is designated a “foreign terrorist organization," and Washington also claims that the group has been involved in drug trafficking in Latin America to generate revenue. Rada, according to the Treasury, spent over a decade in South America before relocating to Lebanon. Political Cartoons View All 1154 ImagesRada's brother, Samer, was also sanctioned and accused of being involved in various drug trafficking and money laundering operations across Latin America. The Treasury also slapped sanctions on Lebanon-based company Black Diamond SARL and owner Ali Ismail Ajrouch.

Persons: Amer Mohamed Akil Rada, ”, “, Brian Nelson, Mehdi Akil Helbawi, Diamond SARL, Ali Ismail Ajrouch Organizations: Treasury, Argentine, Israelite Mutual Association, Embassy, Rada, BCI Technologies Locations: BEIRUT, U.S, Lebanon, South America, Lebanese, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Iran, Washington, America, Colombia, Latin America, Belize, El Salvador, Venezuelan

☆ A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Yiren Lu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Maybe in a few decades from now, we’ll look back at all these seminal A.I. As two analysts at N.E.A., an investment firm, put it in a recent report, generative A.I. But with large language models, incumbents like Google and Microsoft have had a huge head start in both developing the technology and acquiring market share among consumers. Moreover, the capital-intensive nature of training large language models means that smaller companies like OpenAI and Anthropic creating their own large language models have few alternatives beyond making Faustian “partnerships” with tech giants. Beyond the incumbents, one beneficiary might well be the indie hacker, the kind of coder for hire who does niche A.I.

Persons: Mark Cuban, ChatGPT, Diego Basch, “, Sahil Lavingia, ” Organizations: Dallas Mavericks, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, N.E.A Locations: whiteboards, Hillsborough, HF0, S.A.S

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