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The information technology sector has soared this year as the stock market has recovered from the doldrums of March, aided by massive government and central-bank stimulus. But the long-term cloud technology trend that has fed so much success for the largest tech companies can no longer be considered new and transformative. Gerry Frigon, the chief investment officer at Taylor Frigon Capital Management, pointed to distributed computing as a critically important area for investors to think about. Another trend is probably already on your mind: the boom in working from home and the communication systems that make it possible. He has two stock picks that he believes will capitalize on these trends: Tower Semiconductor TSEM, +5.08% and AudioCodes AUDC, +10.25%. Taylor Frigon Capital Management, based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has about $280 million in assets under management. The firm’s Core Growth Strategy has performed very well against the broad market, as ...

Looking back over the past six months, you may see that you have been consuming much more news online. A free moment? Open up your news app and start scrolling. You may say you’ve turned into a news junkie and are proud to be able to recite COVID-19 new cases by state and the number of arrests in the most recent protests across the country, but what you’re really doing is doomscrolling. Merriam-Webster recently added doomscrolling and the related term doomsurfing to its words to watch. The online dictionary says, “Doomscrolling and doomsurfing are new terms referring to the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening, or depressing. Many people are finding themselves reading continuously bad news about COVID-19 without the ability to stop or step back.” And of course doomscrolling can apply to any bad news, virus-related, political controversies, unemployment rates, pay cuts and more. Essentially, if ...

You’ve probably seen 32-bit and 64-bit options available whenever you download an app, or install a game. Your PC might even have a sticker that says it has a 64-bit processor. But does it really matter? Most new PCs have a 64-bit processor, but why? Here’s the real difference between 32-bit and 64-bit. Here’s why it matters Simply put, a 64-bit processor is more capable than a 32-bit processor, because it can handle more data at once. A 64-bit processor is capable of storing more computational values, including memory addresses, which means it’s able to access over four billion times the physical memory of a 32-bit processor. That’s just as big as it sounds. Here’s the key difference: 32-bit processors are perfectly capable of handling a limited amount of RAM (in Windows, 4GB or less), and 64-bit processors are capable of utilizing much more. Of course, in order to achieve this, your operating system also needs to be designed to t...