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“# Antitrust watchdogs around the world are going back to school to study blockchain and AI ” Competition authorities are hitting the books when it comes to emerging technologies like blockchain and AI. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced that it would be participating in a new initiative at Stanford University to onboard more…
“#Barnes & Noble Education shares spike on investment from Fanatics, Lids” Barnes & Noble Education, which operates 775 bookstores at college campuses nationwide, scored a $15 million investment to improve its e-commerce operations as the pandemic drives more students and alumni to purchase merchandise online. Licensed sports gear retailer Lids and online giant Fanatics —…
“#’U Experience’ college bubble slammed for COVID-19 concerns” They’re giving it the old college try. Three Princeton grads plan to salvage the fun and debauchery that co-eds are missing out on this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — by packing students from across the US into a hotel. Called the U Experience, the controversial program will…
“# University’s epic burn: Researchers say Ripple’s protocol ‘may fail badly’ ” Researchers from the University of Bern have released a report claiming Ripple’s consensus protocol “ensures neither safety nor liveness.” In a blog posted yesterday from the university’s Cryptology and Data Security Research Group, researchers Christian Cachin, Amores-Sesar, and Jovana Mićić released an analysis…
“# Cambridge and Oxford teams compete in algorithmic crypto trading contest ” More than one dozen teams representing the mathematics and computer science departments of Oxford and Cambridge universities are competing to build crypto trading algorithms on major exchanges Coinbase Pro and FTX. According to a Nov. 25 announcement, the 15 teams will be assessed…
“#Parents tell college-aged kids to stay away this Thanksgiving” When it came to deciding whether his two college-aged kids would come home for Thanksgiving, Robert Lawton assessed the risk with military precision. “We’ve been talking about Thanksgiving since April,” Lawton, 56, an Army veteran who lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, told The Post. “We’ve tracked…
“# Arizona State University adopts blockchain-based app to track COVID-19 ” Open The New York Times’s rolling survey of coronavirus cases on United States college campuses and the picture looks bleak: as of Nov. 5, over 252,00 cases had been confirmed across 1,600 colleges nationwide. The spread of infection, combined with an at best incompetent,…
“#University apparel emblazoned with ‘CUM’ is a chaotic internet mystery” Delighted and embarrassed students and other internet users shared on TikTok and elsewhere that a private Lutheran school, Concordia University of Michigan, appeared to have recently debuted a rather unfortunate and/or glorious new line of athletic wear. The new line prominently featured what people assumed…
“#The NY Times knows tax avoidance and other commentary” Media watch: The Times Knows Tax Avoidance A New York Times “investigation” described how President Trump found ways to avoid taxes — and the Times “ought to know,” snarks Ira Stoll at The New York Sun, because the Gray Lady and “the Ochs-Sulzberger family that control…
“#How ‘college for all’ only deepens inequality” Wells Fargo’s CEO recently faced outrage for a memo noting “the unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to recruit from.” Rather than pseudo-righteous indignation, maybe it’s time to confront uncomfortable facts about both college preparedness and the way our society bases…