For exposure, universities put courses on the web
Lecture notes and course assignments are available free through M.I.T. OpenCourseWare, reports the New York Times.
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Chinese wrest supercomputer title from U.S.
A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as…
As college fees climb, aid does too
As their state financing dwindled, four-year public universities increased their published tuition and fees almost 8 percent this year, to ... Read more
eMail spam falls after Russian crackdown
You may not have noticed, but since late last month, the world supply of Viagra ads and other e-mail spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth, reports the…
Blurring the line between apps and books
Stephen Elliott, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, just introduced his first piece of software for sale: an app for the iPad and iPhone called “The Adderall Diaries,” reports…
Britain looks to graduates to pick up the tuition tab
What is a university education worth? Who derives the benefits? And who should pay for it? These were just some of the questions that pushed their way onto…
iPad coming to Verizon Wireless and AT&T stores
Apple said Thursday that Verizon Wireless would begin selling the iPad at its stores on Oct. 28, reports the New York Times.
Microsoft’s Bing gets a social lift from Facebook
Facebook and Microsoft announced a partnership on Wednesday that will give the results on Microsoft’s Bing search engine a social twist--and could help both companies compete against a…
New web code draws concern over risks to privacy
In the next few years, a powerful new suite of capabilities will become available to web developers that could give marketers and advertisers access to many more details…
Aiming to learn as we do, a machine teaches itself
Researchers are fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human, reports the New York Times.