London Evening Standard

Unemployment total in London surges to equivalent of a city the size of Leicester

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. London’s jobs crisis is rapidly worsening the unemployment rate in the capital hitting a new ...
Hartford Courant

Battle at CT Capitol is over homeschoolers and ‘equivalent instruction’ in education

In one of the year’s biggest controversies at the state Capitol, parents and legislators are clashing in a bitter battle over tighter oversight regulations on homeschooling families. The two sides are ...
Daily Mail

First 'V-level' courses revealed as government pledges to 'end snobbery' in education with vocational equivalent of A-levels

The first new V-level courses have been revealed, as the government vows to 'end snobbery' in education and broaden options after GCSEs. Qualifications in education, finance and digital will be ...
The Nation

Can the Dictionary Keep Up?

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...
The Motley Fool

Here's How Many iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF Shares You'll Need to Own the Equivalent of 1 Bitcoin

Bitcoin just reached a 52-week low. There are advantages to owning Bitcoin through an exchange-traded fund (ETF) rather than a centralized exchange or a cold wallet. ETFs can be particularly useful ...
The New York Times

Stream These 8 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in February

A couple of horror classics, a beloved sitcom and a great Paul Thomas Anderson film are among the gems leaving for U.S. subscribers next month. By Jason Bailey Two wildly influential horror classics — ...
MIT Technology Review

Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace

There are many paths AI evolution could take. On one end of the spectrum, AI is dismissed as a marginal fad, another bubble fueled by notoriety and misallocated capital. On the other end, it’s cast as ...
IFLScience

Is 1 Dog Year Really The Same As 7 Human Years?

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...
The New Yorker

Is the Dictionary Done For?

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...
Ars Technica

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...
Engadget

US patent office says generative AI is equivalent to other tools in inventors' belts

While generative AI systems cannot be considered inventors under US patent laws, the US Patent and Trademark Office has updated its guidelines on how they can be used in the process of creating ...
WBUR

Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...