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£1,000 can still be £1,000 years from now while buying considerably less. Understanding the difference between nominal money and real purchasing power helps explain inflation, wages, savings and long-term financial planning.
Saving another copy of your files is only the beginning. A reliable backup strategy separates critical copies from the systems they protect and proves, through testing, that those copies can actually restore your data when disaster strikes.
‘Very excited to start this new chapter of my life’ August 28, 2026 1 min read Scenes from the Yard on move-in day As Harvard’s Class of 2030 arrive...
‘Excited and a bit nervous … but mostly excited’ August 28, 2026 1 min read Scenes from the Yard on move-in day As Harvard’s Class of 2030 arrived i...
Members of the Crimson Key Society welcome first-year students to Harvard.Photo by Grace DuVal Hope, joy, heavy lifting Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer...
A strong password is important, but it should not be your account’s only defence. Multifactor authentication adds another barrier when passwords are stolen or exposed.
Generative AI can produce polished, confident answers that contain incorrect facts or fabricated citations. Understanding why—and knowing what to verify—is becoming an essential digital-literacy skill.
Jon Star. Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer One answer but with more than one way to get there Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer August 17, 202...
Gen Z puts high priority on jobs with meaning, purpose, but sees daunting hurdles Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer August 3, 2026 7 min read Sch...
Are we headed toward recession? Unpredictable. Illustration by Matt Kenyon/Ikon Images Christina Pazzanese Harvard Staff Writer August 3, 2026 9 m...
Don’t mince words, Radcliffe told scholars. It worked. Photo courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer July 31, 2026...
Henry Chu named curator of Nieman Foundation for Journalism Prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent, editor aims to focus on challenges facing industry, i...