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The purpose of higher education is to provide students with the tools they need to enter their chosen profession. Real-world skills have long been an emphasis at top schools around the world, and now those skills include an in depth study on cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. As digital currencies...

MIT graduate Matthew Rognlie has attracted an audience with his theory for the issue of income inequality. He claims that the main issue at hand is housing, according to editor Greg Ferenstein of medium.com. Ferenstein states that Rognlie's theory "attack[s] the idea that rich...

A recent University of Michigan study concluded that a majority of Americans had a positive opinion about self-driving vehicles. Most people who have read about automated vehicles have likely read about Google Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) highly publicized attempts to build an autonomous car....

For the week ending June 6, news stories contained surprises like being able to pay for electricity with bitcoin, rapper 50 Cent accepting bitcoin and the IRS relaxing its FBAR requirement for bitcoin holders. Citi Says Bitcoin Is A Threat To Credit Card Margins In a 76-page report, Citi...

The latest news coming from the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) rumor mill is definitely intriguing, but the source may not be trustworthy. According to this post, Apple may be designing a new version of its EarPods that measure heart rate and blood pressure. Supposedly the app collecting the data would...

Multiple sources told several news outlets that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) enterprise and cloud boss, Satya Nadella, would be the company’s next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer, who plans to retire. In addition, people with knowledge of the process told Bloomberg the Microsoft board was...

Conspiracy theorists sharpen your pencils. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just acquired Boston Dynamics, a robotics company with a $10.8 million US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract. Does this mean Google is about to start supplying the U.S. military with “killer robots...

Imagine a supercomputer so powerful it could absorb millions of bits of data including complete patient records, drug interactions, and past results. Imagine this machine, which understands natural language, could then generate hypotheses based on the data it had assimilated and that in fractions...

Lifelong learning is a value many hold dear. Learning continues no matter how old we get, and we now live in a time when most people have several careers before they retire. This means new learning is needed to make these career changes effectively. For those that are looking for investment...

After studying some of the most prestigious universities in America, AccountingDegree.com found that Stanford University graduated more entrepreneurs than Harvard, New York University and other prominent schools. From 2007 to 2011, Stanford graduates received 203 deals totaling $4.1 billion. DFJ...