Ask Sophie: Any tips for F-1 student visa approval amid the rising denial rate?
I was accepted into a prestigious robotics engineering master’s program in the U.S. but the denial rate for F-1 student visas is increasing. Why?
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…
What if room temperature superconductors were real?
Myriad industries would be ripe for upheaval. Here are a few that would stand the most to gain.
Meta starts blocking the news in Canada — its latest standoff with publishers
Canadians using Facebook and Instagram should expect to see some gaps in their feeds, starting now. This week, Meta began blocking Canadian access to links and stories from news publishers — the company’s response to a bill that would require the tech giant to pay outlets for the right to distribute and profit from their […]
How I Bootstrapped to $100 Million Without Venture Capital Funding
How I grew my business without any VC funding — and how you can, too.
Are You Guilty of Poor Onboarding? The Consequences Are Worse Than You Think.
The onboarding process has a profound effect on your employee satisfaction, retention and productivity. Harness these actionable strategies to optimize your onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition for new hires.
‘Life of a Girl Dad:’ Mark Zuckerberg Rocks Face Gems and Beaded Bracelets at Taylor Swift Concert
The Facebook founder attended the economy-boosting “Eras” tour with his daughters.
Chinese Zoo Denies That Bear in Enclosure Is Really a Human in Costume
The bear has created a frenzy on social media.
Business Etiquette Doesn’t Have to Be Boring — Here’s How to Navigate It With Sass and Style
It’s time to revolutionize business etiquette. Here’s how.
X, formerly Twitter, streamlines its crowdsourced fact-checking system Community Notes
Elon Musk-owned X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is streamlining its crowdsourced fact-checking feature Community Notes. The feature historically has provided information to users about why they were seeing a fact check appended to a tweet, er, post. Now, after three years of development, the company says this extra context will be removed for […]
Mondee security lapse exposed flight itineraries and unencrypted credit card numbers
Travel giant Mondee has secured an exposed database that was spilling sensitive customer information, including detailed flight and hotel itineraries and unencrypted credit card numbers. Anurag Sen, a good-faith security researcher known for discovering inadvertently exposed data on the internet, found the database and shared details with TechCrunch to alert the company. According to Sen, […]