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Folding phones are too expensive and there isn't much benefit to consumers just yet. Here's what needs to change so that folding phones become mainstream. Hint: Apple should build a folding iPhone.

Rob and Reshawn Lee bought a four-bedroom home in the suburbs of Dallas in June 2013. They paid it off in June 2018.

These are the best bits of wisdom and insight from this year's letter.

He noted a big caveat though: "There will be major drops in the market, perhaps of 50% magnitude or even greater."

South Korea reported that two people have died as the country's total cases rose to 433.

In Silicon Valley, "The Lord of the Rings" serves as a common ground, a shared passion that tech workers can reference to communicate with and relate to one another.

In addition to improving the performance of the vehicle and moving the engine from the front to behind the driver, General Motors added a lot of new and unique features for drivers.

Most notably, the eighth-generation Corvette started its life as an Australian-made pickup called the Holden Ute, codenamed internally as "Blackjack."

Encryption takes data like a text message or email, and converts it into code to prevent people, who are not the desired recipient, from seeing the data online. Encryption has gotten companies like Apple and WhatsApp in hot water with the U.S. government for prohibiting it from accessing private user data.

With several localized coronavirus cases popping up in places such as Iran, Italy, South Korea and Japan, some experts are beginning to wonder: Is the genie out of the bottle?

"For the broader market it's reflective of risk appetite and people willing to roll the dice," one strategist said.

G-20 leaders in Saudi Arabia are using a summit in Riyadh to find an "urgent solution" to international digital taxation, exposing global divisions over how to tax big technology firms.

Hoya Capital Real Estate started an exchange traded fund last March that its founder calls a macro play on the housing shortage in the United States.

Digital technologies are revolutionizing the energy industry, creating big opportunities for tech and oil companies.

Investors are too complacent, in no small part due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how rapidly the world has changed, economically and politically, writes Fred Kempe.

The 83-year-old woman was the first passenger from the MS Westerdam, run by Carnival Corp unit Holland America, to test positive.

The move comes at a time when such ships are under scrutiny after hundreds of passengers on the Diamond Princess liner in Japan contracted the coronavirus.

Modi's government has faced large scale-protests at home and criticism abroad for enacting a citizenship law that is seen as discriminating against Muslims.

Teams looking in the fuel tanks of brand new Boeing 737 Max planes for foreign object debris will expand their inspections, sources familiar with the checks told CNBC on Friday.

Japan is facing growing questions about whether it is doing enough to stop the coronavirus, which emerged in central China late last year and has spread to 24 other countries.