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Ghost meetings are a growing RTO problem but Google could fix it

The conference room shows a meeting about to start, but the room is totally empty. Where are all the attendees? Is everyone just running late? Nope, they’re all working from home today, but no one thought to remove the conference room from the meeting invite! Google could fix this problem, or allow us to fix it ourselves, but we need to bring their attention to it! Read more to find out how.

CapitalOne's checking account for teens has a critical flaw

The CapitalOne MONEY teen checking account seems like a good way to give your teens their own bank account while still maintaining oversight of what they're buying and how much money they have. Unfortunately, for 2-parent families, it has a critical flaw.

How *not* to suck at your religion

Check out these awesome glasses that allow people with hearing loss to enjoy going out to the movies

Regal Cinemas plans to distribute new closed-captioning glasses from Sony to more than 6,000 screens across the country by the beginning of summer and hopes to have them in all their theaters by the end of the year. As you can see from the picture (right), the glasses look kind of like bulky 3-D glasses except these are used for captioning, not 3D. The captions are projected onto the glasses and appear to float about 10 feet in front of the user at the bottom of their field of vision. In ddition, the glasses also provide "descriptive narration" which describes the action on the screen for the visually impared and they can also boost the audio levels of the movie for those who are hard of hearing.

Unfit for Work

Joffe-Walt spent 6 months exploring the disability program. As she reports, the story of the U.S. economy we normally hear is not the full picture, not by a long shot. Our federal disability program is only slightly caused by an aging workforce; it is primarily an increasingly expensive, relatively hidden safety net.

The federal disability program, along with the associated health care benefits, costs about $260 billion a year. That’s not only eight times more than we spend on welfare, it’s more than we spend on welfare, food stamps, the school lunch program, and subsidized housing combined! And the worst part is that the disability program incentivizes people to stay on the program forever and never get off of it. You know, the opposite of what a welfare program should do.