Machine learning (ML) has quietly become part of our daily lives, powering our cars, the operations in our hospitals and the food we eat. Some of the most exciting companies applying ML don’t even call themselves “ML” companies. Auto is …
Stay-at-home consumers and stimulus checks have been a boon for online installment financing, digital banks and day trading. With additional reporting by Max Jedeur-Palmgren. In 2015, Nick Molnar was living with his parents in Sydney, Australia, and selling jewelry from …
University of California Regent Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), wrote an “inappropriate letter” to get an applicant into UC Berkeley, the latest development in a college admissions scandal that exposed how the wealthy and connected get …
Many C-suite leaders believe innovation starts with their corporate IT staff. That is true to a point. But if you’re only thinking about the developers you employ, rather than the ones you can access, you may be neglecting some of today’s most …
Steve Bartel is no stranger to building teams. He joined Dropbox when the company had only two dozen employees, and acted as a hiring manager as it flew past 1,000 employees. His MIT classmate Nick Bushak had a similar experience …
Oxford has been named the world’s best university for the fifth year in a row – but China is the real winner in today’s global rankings. And while U.S. universities strengthen their grip on the global top 10, this masks …
This year’s GCSE results have already thrown up many questions. Experts Eddie Playfair and Catherine Sezen, senior policy managers at the Association of Colleges, are answering them for you, and will continue to answer them once the results are published on Thursday. …
A-level students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will have their grades based on teacher assessments rather than an algorithm, after uproar on last week’s results day. It follows a similar change in Scotland. Teachers’ grades will also be used for …
Hundreds of thousands of anxious teenagers are receiving their GCSE results, amid a fresh round of exams chaos, this time affecting BTecs. Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will get GCSE grades given by their schools, after a flawed …
School governors want ministers to drop plans for all primary pupils in England to return before the summer holidays. The first wave of children is due back from Monday but the government wants all primary pupils in class for the …