Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few months ago, the father-in-law of one of my sons, who lives in New York state, sent what was, for him, a ...

It is easy to see why politicians like raising the minimum wage. Short of cash yet keen to fight inequality, they have seized on a tool of redistribution that costs governments little and wins votes.

AI Dev, DeepLearning.ai's AI conference, made its NYC debut. We sat down with Andrew Ng at the event to talk AI and developers. Ng recommends that everyone learn to code. The second annual AI Dev, a ...

Mr. Kramon is a former New York Times editor and a lecturer at the Stanford Business School. Your assignment today: Write a note of gratitude to someone to whom your thanks are overdue. It might be a ...

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...

Remember high school? Your friends, your music, your style? What lessons from high school classes do you still use today? If you could go back, what do you wish you’d learned about real life? Research ...

It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...

PhD theses usually come in two forms. Standard monographs, a comprehensive dissertation written by a single author, continue to be used, but theses based on collections of published articles are ...

During Monica Goldson’s 32 years of service at Maryland’s Prince George’s County public schools, where she started as a high school math teacher and rose to chief executive officer, she grew tired of ...

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Years before Clint Eastwood hit the big screen in Westerns by the late 1960s, he was a musical apprentice, playing piano and immersed in jazz while studying country, blues, classical, and other genres ...

23andMe’s bankruptcy has some consumer advocates warning customers of the DNA testing company to delete their accounts. Here’s why they’re sounding the alarm, and what’s at stake if customers don’t ...