The startup world is seriously displeased with the status quo in higher education. Brainworth, a scrappy startup out of Australia, is the latest to throw its hat in the ring, taking a novel approach to solving the problem.
Brainworth is a company two years in the making which aims to use a visual gaming environment to map the knowledge in a given subject for students.
Last Tuesday, Slate DoubleX founding editor Hanna Rosin and New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins sat down before a packed house at the New America Foundation to discuss Ms. Rosin’s long-anticipated book, The End of Men, due out September 11 from Riverhead.
As the two journalists tried to explain the persistent wage and power gap between men and women in America, their conversation returned again and again to our more progressive friends in California and Scandinavia.
Google, together with its partner Samsung, launched a new Chromebook and its first desktop Chromebox today. The most important change to the new Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is that it is significantly faster. While earlier versions featured a battery-friendly Intel Atom chip, these first Chromebooks often felt underpowered. This new version features an Intel Core chip, as well as 4GB of RAM, an HD camera, two USB 2.0 ports and a 1280x800 display.
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FORTUNE -- Updating a chart he first posted last year (see here and here), Asymco's Horace Dediu on Monday tried to estimate how long three badly wounded veterans of the smartphone wars -- Research in Motion (RIMM), Nokia (NOK) and LG -- might survive.
Last month, San Francisco unveiled a new cloud-based open data site as part of its move to adopt cloud services and, in turn, to encourage open government, transparency and accountability by improving access to data and information. San Francisco is hardly alone -- both public and private sectors in the U.S. and around the world are pulling back the curtain on their data.
Squeeze play: JPMorgan has been selling profitable securities to prop up second-quarter results after the bank's chief investment office and the trader known as the London Whale incurred billions in losses. The asset sales may be tax inefficient, and will deprive the lender of future gains, which is just too bad for Jamie Dimon's firm. With its share price down 18 percent from the day before the trading losses were first reported, JPMorgan is under pressure to generate earnings.
The sunset tonight will be perfectly aligned with the street grid of Manhattan--meaning that, as it goes down, the sun will be fully visible on both sides of each one of the island's cross streets (as the sun is with the stones of Stonehenge on the summer solstice). The other such day this year is July 12--but why wait so long?
Today’s release of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices indicate that housing prices across the US are down -1.9% from March 2011 and down -2% for the first quarter of 2012 compared with the first quarter of 2011. Month-over-month changes in the 10-city and 20-city composite indices were minimal, but “with all these latest data, all three composites still posted their lowest levels since the housing crisis began in mid-2006,” according to today’s report.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned -- but what about a Wall Street titan?
Deep-pocketed financiers have abandoned President Obama and are flocking to Mitt Romney in droves, providing more donations to his campaign than any other industry except retired workers. (And that's not really an industry.)
French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur has been through plenty of ups and downs over the last few years with his own startup, Seesmic -- an outfit that has seen more twists than a pretzel factory. But through it all, one thing has remained constant: his side project, the Paris-based startup conference LeWeb.
Started more than seven years ago, the event now claims to be the industry's most international shindig, and now it's about to see its first spin-off, …
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FORTUNE -- The hottest ticket in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., this week is D10: All Things Digital, the tenth annual gathering of high-tech elite billed as "conversations with the most influential figures in media and technology."
This year's highlight: Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, scheduled to kick things off Tuesday night at 6 p.m.
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Michael Peppiatt is a world renowned art critic, author and art historian, who has interviewed some of the 20th century's most eminent artists. Here he discusses his new book Interviews with Artists, 1966-2012 (published today), an informal, behind-the-scenes account of his interviews with such figures as Bacon, Dubuffet, Moore, Balthus and Auerbach.
Article by Michael Peppiatt
Crossing the Villa Medici’s grand rooms to meet its equally grand director, Balthus, in summer 1966, I was a million miles from thinking that this encounter would one day be the first in a whole book of interviews with artists.
There is nothing like the Chelsea Flower Show. It is still the best garden show in the world. And this year, nothing changed - it was as fantastic as ever, althought there were a few disappointments, such as the rather low-key contribution from Sarah Price, who I expected (as did most other people) to win the best in show award for her garden.
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The body of Shriya Shah-Klorfine, a Canadian woman who died while returning from the summit of Mount Everest, has been brought off the world’s tallest mountain.
A spokesman from Utmost Adventure Trekking says Shah-Klorfine’s body has been taken via helicopter from Mount Everest to her family in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.
Ganesh Thakuri says a team of climbers managed to bring the Toronto woman’s remains down from an area more than 8,000 metres above sea level to a camp within helicopter rescue range on Monday, but bad weather prevented the body from being flown off the peak right away.
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