“In a widely-reprinted essay, Ohio State University assistant professor of physics Chris Orban ponders whether the tech world did students a favor or disservice by getting states to count computer science as high school math credit,” writes long-time Slashdot reader theodp. The assistant physics professor writes:
In 2013, a who’s who of the tech world came together to launch a new nonprofit…
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It’s been 20 years since the Day of 6 Billion
Our global human population was estimated to reach 6 billion on today’s date in 1999. Eleven years later, in 2011, Earth had gained another billion people. Today – October 12, 2019 – it stands at about 7.7 billion, according to United Nations estimates. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/this-date-in-science-6-billion-humans-and-counting…
Coursera for Business Expands to Latin America, Announces Government and Enterprise Partnerships in Mexico and Colombia
By Leah Belsky, SVP of Enterprise, Coursera The unprecedented rate of technology advancement is disrupting companies and jobs everywhere. It is also disrupting skills. 42 percent of core job skills are predicted to shift by 2022, pressuring companies and governments worldwide to prioritize the upskilling of talent to secure the competitiveness of their industry or […]
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Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3
Just weeks after solving the problem for 42, mathematicians have worked out another way of writing the number 3 as the sum of three cubes Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216941-mathematicians-find-a-completely-new-way-to-write-the-number-3/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Huawei Starts Selling Laptops With Linux Preinstalled
Huawei is now selling the Matebook 13, Matebook 14, and Matebook X Pro to consumers in China with Deepin Linux preinstalled. “Deepin is a Chinese-domestic distribution, with their own desktop environment — appropriately also called Deepin,” notes TechRepublic. From the report: Huawei is passing along the savings to consumers as well, with the Matebook 13 and 14 models receiving a 300…