“Twitter is upgrading its API to be more standards-compliant and more modern,” writes longtime Slashdot reader andyp. “They also want to collaborate with developers as they create the new API platform.” VentureBeat provides more details: Twitter today announced plans to build “the next generation of the Twitter API” that will provide more flexibility and better serve developers. As a first step,…
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Class-Action Lawsuit Says TurboTax Tricked Taxpayers Into Paying For ‘Free’ Tax Prep
Less than a week after ProPublica found that TurboTax lied to taxpayers about its free filing program, “a new class action lawsuit against TurboTax maker Intuit claims the tax service breached its agreement with the Internal Revenue Service by intentionally obscuring its free filing service and charging qualifying taxpayers anyway,” reports Gizmodo. From the report: The complaint was filed Sunday in…
Why the FBI requires advanced forensic accounting training
When you think about the FBI, you might imagine stereotypical “feds” from movies busting down doors and arresting dangerous mobsters. You might also imagine agents infiltrating terrorist organizations in daring undercover operations. One thing that might not come to mind: accountants! In truth, accountants with specialized expertise have played a central role in the FBI’s […]
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Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov
Image by Luigi Novi. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons We remember Oliver Sacks as a neurologist, but we remember him not least because he wrote quite a few books as well. If you read those books, you’ll get a sense of Sacks’ wide range of interests — invention, perception and misperception, hallucination, and […]
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Simulating stars’ sounds to reveal their secrets
“A cello sounds like a cello because of its size and shape,” said astronomer Jacqueline Goldstein. “The vibrations of stars also depend on their size and structure.” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/simulating-stars-sounds-to-reveal-their-secrets…
Readers were curious about green icebergs, aliens and more
Readers had questions and comments about icebergs and climate change, CBD and NASA’s search for E.T. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/readers-were-curious-about-green-icebergs-aliens-and-more4…
5 essential L&D themes from Coursera Partner Conference
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2019 Coursera Partners Conference in London, where we brought together academic, business and tech pioneers in a two-day celebration of learning. Amongst guest speakers were Thomas Friedman, Yale University, the Abu Dhabi Dhabi School of Government, AXA, Novartis, Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng, and many more. Throughout the […]
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How Microdosing with Smaller Doses of Cannabis Can Help with Anxiety and Stress
Samoon Ahmad, M.D. – For ages, the cannabis plant has been consumed to alleviate anxiety and stress. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/05/01/how-microdosing-with-smaller-doses-of-cannabis-can-help-with-anxiety-and-stress/…
Applying For Your Next Job May Be an Automated Nightmare
merbs writes: If you think looking for a job is already daunting, anxiety-riddled, and unpleasant, just wait until the algorithms take over the hiring process. When they do, a newfangled ‘digital recruiter’ like VCV, which just received $1.7 million in early investment, hopes it will look something like this: First, a search bot will be used to scan CVs by the…