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Best Technology Stocks To Buy For The Long Term

Best Technology Stocks To Buy For The Long Term

Top Technology Stocks

Technology is one of the most attractive sectors of the stock market. They’re a favorite of growth-oriented investors and risk-takers alike. Technology stocks have gained investor favor over time, leading to the sector now commanding 27% of the U.S. stock market benchmark S&P 500 Index in 2023 (compared to 11% a decade ago). However, these stocks also represent a high-volatility segment of the market.

When sifting through the myriad of technology stocks that the stock market has to offer, you need to have some parameters to help filter down the list. Here’s a list of my top technology stocks filtered using these parameters (and why):

  • Large-cap stocks: safe, having stood the test of time
  • Trading on the Nasdaq with a volume of over 1 million: investor interest and ease of trading
  • Short float of less than 10%: do not have a pessimistic market sentiment
  • Trading below-average
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Opinion | We shouldn’t listen to tech entrepreneurs on anything but technology

Opinion | We shouldn’t listen to tech entrepreneurs on anything but technology

In today’s noisy artificial intelligence marketplace, Adam Lashinsky’s query in his July 18 op-ed, “Why are we listening to tech moguls like Musk?,” resonated loudly. Why do we listen to only the loudest voices when some of the quieter voices might be echoing a truth we need to hear? Opinions are not truths, no matter who speaks them. And truths are only one component of wisdom, no matter their source.

Sorting out AI’s challenges and complexities must not be left only to those with the loudest voices. Tech giants whose profit motives encourage the rapid development of products and who sometimes ignore ethical standards are part of our world. There are other, quieter voices that also need to be heard, those for whom ethical responsibilities loom large. Their AI applications, although less well-known, might be equally important.

Take the recent spate of lawsuits against Big

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Canada must turn to the next generation of Canadian technology – the CANDU MONARK – to power its future

Canada must turn to the next generation of Canadian technology – the CANDU MONARK – to power its future

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Ontario has a homegrown solution to the problem of decarbonizing its energy supply in CANDU nuclear technology.
To meet increased demand and zero-carbon energy by 2050, new nuclear reactors will be needed in the province.IMAGE COURTESY OF ATKINSRÉALIS

Ontario will soon be making some big decisions about nuclear power. Already the largest beneficiary in Canada of this clean, reliable, stable power source, Ontario gets between 50-60 per cent of its power from nuclear. Recently, the provincial government announced its intention to build 4,800 MW of new nuclear power production at Bruce Power’s site in Kincardine, Ont., the largest operating nuclear site in the world. It has also announced that it will extend the life of four CANDU® reactors at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station for another 30 years of safe operation and that it intends to build four small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), including

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It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

In the fall of 2016—the year in which the proportion of online adults using social media reached eighty per cent—I published an Op-Ed in the Times that questioned the popular conception that you need to cultivate a strong social-media brand to succeed in the job market. “I think this behavior is misguided,” I wrote. “In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable.” I suggested that knowledge workers instead spend time developing useful skills, with the goal of distinguishing themselves in their chosen fields. The article took off, driven by a provocative title added by my editors: “Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.” For a brief period, it even topped the paper’s most-e-mailed list.

The backlash soon followed. The CBC invited me on a national radio program to discuss the essay; I was surprised,

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How the growth of wearable technology is transforming football

How the growth of wearable technology is transforming football

It was not so long ago that professional footballers would treat their bodies with little more care than a Sunday league player.

“At Liverpool, if we played an away game in the late ’90s, we’d get onto the team bus and there would be a couple of crates of lager,” Michael Owen tells The Athletic.

“You’d have to tick a box before kick-off to say whether you wanted chicken and chips or fish and chips after the game — and by the time you were halfway home, the whole bus was engulfed in cigarette smoke.” 

Fast forward to 2023 and modern-day football is worlds apart from the amateur game, most notably due to the detail with which players’ performance is objectively monitored — from the volume of passes made to the blades of grass covered.

We have grown accustomed to seeing players wear a GPS (global positioning system) sports

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