This One Skill Might Help Shape The Future of Education
By introducing coding at an early age and providing the necessary resources and support, parents and educators empower kids to thrive in the digital era.
Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates
The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.
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‘This Is Evil’: Fans Reeling After Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival Is Canceled Without Explanation
The festival was set to begin on September 2.
Fun while it lasted: The room-temperature superconductor claim is probably bunk
The latest room-temp superconductor claims are losing their magnetism after several labs failed to replicate results.
AI Won’t Replace Designers — It Will Make Them More Creative. Here’s How
Designers can use AI to boost their efficiency and creativity.
How One Beloved Burger Chain Is Spending Millions to Get Customers Through the Door
Burger King hopes remodeling and revamping the Whopper will bring customers to stores.
Why Problems Are More Powerful Than Products
Companies spend big budgets on promoting products, but sales come from focusing on what really drives decisions.
Matter filters out microplastics, one washer at at time — and raises $10M to go industrial
Microplastics are everywhere — quite literally, as study after study shows. And while we can’t do much about the tiny, toxic particles already in our oceans, waterways, and bodies, we can try to slow the release of new ones. Matter is a startup attempting to do so (with a shiny new $10 million) using a […]
Symmetry raises $18M to bolster organizations’ data security programs
As organizations embrace cloud services — and are forced to confront changing regulations and data use standards — their ability to maintain control of data security frequently becomes strained. If they lose that control, the consequences can be quite severe. The average cost of a data breach is about $3.86 million (per IBM), and most […]
Aiming to boost retention, Threads now hooks into Instagram DMs
Despite declines in user retention numbers following its buzzy, record-breaking launch, Instagram’s Twitter (er, X) competitor Threads continues to ship new features. The company today announced a handful of updates to its new app, including one that could hook Instagram users into returning to the Threads app. That new feature, “Send on Instagram,” allows a […]
Want to pay less for your X ads? Just place them next to spam
X says it has “delivered a decade’s worth of innovation focused on creating an engaging and healthy environment” since Elon Musk’s acquisition. Sure! Everyone knows that when you think about X, you immediately think of closing a tab the twenty fourth letter of the alphabet porn Ed Sheeran’s second studio album, X, which peaked at […]