McDonald’s Is Turning Jobs into Degrees By Helping Employees Earn College Credits Just for Working
The fast-food chain is working with community colleges to translate job skills into academic credits.
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How These 5 Beloved Restaurant Chains Are Making a Comeback After Nearly Disappearing. Is Your Former Favorite on the List?
Through innovative business models, strategic partnerships and rebranding efforts, these iconic chains are poised to reclaim their positions in the market.
The Download: defining AI, and China’s driverless ambitions
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What is AI? AI is sexy, AI is cool. AI is entrenching inequality, upending the job market, and wrecking education. The AI boom will boost the economy, the AI bubble is about to…
Watch the Pitch That Landed $10K in 60 Seconds
On this family-focused episode of ‘Elevator Pitch,’ see which entrepreneur scores an unexpected payday.
Housetraining robot dogs: How generative AI might change consumer IoT
As technology goes, the internet of things (IoT) is old: internet-connected devices outnumbered people on Earth around 2008 or 2009, according to a contemporary Cisco report. Since then, IoT has grown rapidly. Researchers say that by the early 2020s, estimates of the number of devices ranged anywhere from the low tens of billions to over…
The Chinese government is going all-in on autonomous vehicles
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. There’s been so much news coming out of China’s autonomous-vehicle industry lately that it’s hard to keep track. The government is finally allowing Tesla to bring its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature to…
What is AI?
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AI Marketing Secrets: 3 Game-Changing GPT-4 Use Cases to Make Money with AI
Learn how to harness AI to generate leads and increase sales, even with limited resources and a small social media following.
Mark Zuckerberg Says an Upcoming Meta Product Left Testers ‘Giddy’
Meta is almost ready to show this gadget to the public.
Serena Williams Once Tried to Deposit a $1 Million Check at an ATM Drive-Thru: ‘I Never Played for Money’
The tennis legend recently appeared on an episode of “Hot Ones” with Sean Evans.