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“I thought crypto is profitable. This has really taken a toll on my mental health.” Mumbai-based student Ajay Mutke sums up the feeling among thousands of crypto investors following the dramatic crash in the value of cryptocurrencies in recent days. The 26-year-old who borrowed Rs 50,000 from

Young people are often seen as having a bleak worldview, plugged uncritically into social media and anxious about the climate crisis, among other pressing issues. But a global study commissioned by the UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, appears to turn that received wisdom on its head. It paints a picture

An astronomer from NSF’s NOIRLab has teamed up with a geologist from California State University, Fresno, to make the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. After studying the chemical composition of “polluted” white dwarfs, they have concluded that most rocky planets

Whether you want to pursue a full web development career or you’re working on launching a business and want to be a more technical CEO, learning the fundamentals of web design and development can be a huge boon to your career. Fortunately, the barriers of entry to

People must give more thought to the objectives of hiring algorithms, experts say, or else human biases may be perpetuated in software. Fifty-five years ago, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, which he said was a continuation of “the unending search for justice

Companies are trying to stay competitive in the job market, investing in future technologies. This has lifted the demand for software engineers. Globally, software development is one of the highest paying tech jobs. With more and more Indians planning career overseas, the demand has surged over the

Perhaps the most defining characteristic of social media is that it only rewards speaking, not reading. Every metric, from “likes” to “followers” are prefaced upon the primacy of publication. Even influencers are defined as those whose posts are the most read, rather than those who read the

Six web professionals sitting in judgement, five teams of creative up-and-coming web designers, and a prize to the team that best figures out how to transform a relatively ugly duckling website into a beautiful high-tech swan. Reading Area Community College’s web application development program hosted a presentation

There is not one simple sociological explanation as to why the anti-vaccination movement is increasingly popular. Yes, people are reaching for answers in a postmodern, post-truth world, where both government and science seem untrustworthy, and a friend’s opinion on Facebook far more tangible. And sure, for some

For the past couple of years, there’s been some talk about Google working on a mysterious new operating system by the name of Fuchsia. Fuchsia’s an all-new platform that will eventually replace Android as we know and love it today, and last week, a report came out claiming that