TikTok removes more than seven million suspected under-age accounts
TikTok removed nearly 7.3 million accounts suspected to belong to under-age children in the first quarter of this year.
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NCAA panel recommends letting players profit off name, image, likeness
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that the NCAA Division I Council had recommended the organization temporarily “suspend amateurism rules,” allowing athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness.
2U, edX to Combine to Create Online Learning Giant
Online learning provider company to buy assets of nonprofit MOOC pioneer to create a new entity reaching 50 million learners.
Australian universities failing to protect Chinese students and academics who criticise the Communist Party
Chinese students in Australia have been threatened with jail for anti-Communist Party views and universities are not doing enough to protect them.
Mining for lithium, at a cost to Indigenous religions
One autumn evening four years ago, Ivan Bender, a Hualapai man in his mid-50s, took a walk with his fluffy brown-and-white Pomeranian, Sierra Mae, to check on the ranchland he tends.
Profs declare correct grammar is racist, no such thing as standard English at symposium
Towson University hosted a virtual symposium to discuss anti-racist teaching practices.
American soccer, parents struggle with the ‘pay to play’ problem
What is wrong with U.S. Soccer? That question has been gnawing at American soccer institutions at every level since the American men’s team failed to qualify for the last World Cup, held in Russia in 2018.
RIP Pepper robot? SoftBank ‘pauses’ production
Pepper, the friendly little humanoid robot that was launched to much fanfare back in 2014, looks as if it may be retired - for now at least.
U.S. businesses and universities defend STEM OPT in court
The legal threat to Optional Practical Training (OPT) in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields has returned.
Remote and rural
The Maine Community College System will train hundreds of rural students in remote work skills as the pandemic continues to shift the American job landscape.
