You might think it’s only the elite who should bother with trust funds for their heirs, but as more families are drawn into the inheritance tax net every year, trusts are becoming increasingly useful ...

If we gift my house to our daughter and continue to live in it, I understand we would have to pay full market rent. If we survive for seven years after the gift has been made, does our daughter take ...

Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to describe the world around them.

The teenager was researching the Miura-ori fold when Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and wildfires raged in ...

The past two weeks offered multiple camera angles on the breathtaking shallows of the presidential soul. They came in a succession of hot takes: Trump’s improvised riff on the “Donroe Doctrine” after ...

Ancient proverbs can be helpful in adjusting our language and behavior in ways that can benefit every generation. They have become ancient because they work. One example: “A gentle answer turns away ...

With inheritance tax (IHT) thresholds frozen until at least 2028, more families are discovering that estate planning is no longer just a concern for the ultra-wealthy. Rising house prices and ...

My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse? From a priest to a pensioner, a teenager to a tech CEO: can you guess our screen time? In 2003, the Stanford social ...

AI One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it AI Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...