Higher education expenditures have ballooned to nearly half a trillion dollars a year, but despite rising costs, it is unclear that higher education is succeeding at its core mission: graduating students prepared for today’s dynamic world. Four-year completion rates for students at public schools are below 35 percent, and there continue to be massive disparities […]
Vienna: Auto executives are travelling to a remote Austrian town where three brothers are designing electric cars they say can go faster and further than anything made by Tesla Motors Inc. Kreisel Electric GmbH says it’s fielding 20 inquiries a day from automotive icons including BMW AG, Mclaren Automotive Ltd and Volkswagen AG. They’re asking […]
Artificial Intelligence has been the holy grail of Computer Science for over a hundred years and we are finally starting to scratch the first layer of this incredibly complex system. Currently, all the major players in the Technology business are investing heavily in the R&D of AI systems, but it would seem we are still […]
WASHINGTON: Automation threatens 69% of the jobs in India and 77% in China, according to a World Bank research, which says technology could “fundamentally disrupt” the pattern of traditional economic path in developing countries. “As we continue to encourage more investment in infrastructure to promote growth, we also have to think about the kinds of […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivering keynote address at the company’s ‘Tech For Good, Ideas for India’ event in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday said that the company was trying to teach computers more of human language to make computing faster and interacting with them more natural and easier than […]
JAIPUR: Three minor students — Chetanya Golechha, Mrigank Gujjar and Utsav Jain of Class X in Jaipur have got funding of Rs 3 crore for their start-up ‘Infusion Beverages.’ The trio participated in the entrepreneurship fest of their school in April last year which has changed their fortunes. These students of Neerja Modi School in […]
Every year, American students and taxpayers spend roughly $7 billion trying to bridge the gap between finishing high school and actually being ready for college. In two-year colleges, 52% of students are funnelled into remedial coursework. Of these students, only about 40% finish the remedial courses, and less than 10% even graduate. High schools and […]
BEIJING — Having conquered world markets and challenged American political and military leadership, China has set its sights on becoming a global powerhouse in a different field: scientific research. It now has more laboratory scientists than any other country, outspends the entire European Union on research and development, and produces more scientific articles than any […]
