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Babysitters Beware: AI Technology May Soon Be Lurking on Your Social Media

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We’ve heard that artificial intelligence -- human intelligence exhibited by machines -- is getting into just about everything. The latest AI target? Babysitters. Predictim, an AI service, offers background checks and personality assessments to families looking for just the right babysitter. The system scans publicly available online data about an individual,…Read More

Your Money: 3 Questions for CNote’s Yuliya Tarasava

Yuliya Tarasava is the co-founder and chief operating officer of CNote, a financial technology company in Silicon Valley, California, that allows people to “invest with impact” online by earning 2.5% on money they invest. Those same investments also help fund women and minority-led businesses, build schools and affordable housing, and…Read More

Brand, Image and How Pizza Innovators ‘See the World’

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The pizza industry generates around $45.1 billion annually in the United States, according to PMQ Estimates, and accounts for nearly $134 billion abroad, according to Euromonitor. Thirteen percent of Americans consume pizza on any given day, and there are approximately 75,243 pizzerias in the U.S. in 2018, according to CHD Expert. While this…Read More

Why the Vaping Business Is Going Up in Smoke

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If you’re craving JUUL mango pods, you may be out of luck. This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an attack on the rising underage use of tobacco products – which it considers to be an epidemic – and imposed sharp sales restrictions on flavored electronic cigarettes. The…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Entrepreneurs in Space

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Why This Matters Now The final frontier has been getting a lot of attention these days. Entrepreneurs primed for a place to point their innovation are clearly infatuated with the vast expanse of interstellar space. And with good reason. Euroconsult’s latest report reveals that global government investment in space exploration…Read More

Venezuela’s Eugenia Carmona on the ‘Complete Chaos’ Afflicting Her Country

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Not that long ago, Venezuela was the fastest-growing economy in Latin America. Today, it is a country in deep crisis. KWHS interviewer Emmie Stratakis recently sat down with Wharton student and Venezuela native Eugenia Carmona to discuss the economic and humanitarian challenges facing Eugenia's family and friends back home, and what she sees for…Read More

10 Truths about Student Loan Debt

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With so much talk about student loan debt, it’s easy to become mired in all the mind-numbing numbers. The bottom line is this: lots of students are borrowing money to pay for college (often without understanding the consequences), and those decisions are having an often-painful financial impact on their lives…Read More

Aspiring Scientists Launch the World’s Lightest Satellites

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The countdown has begun. In less than a month, on December 3, 2018, KalamSat 2 is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport located in an area of southern Kazakhstan (in Eastern Europe) that is leased to Russia. It will be destined for a two-month stay at the…Read More

Career Insight: Elvis Zhang on Making Cities Better

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Where do you plan to live when you graduate from high school or college? If you believe the statistics, cities are becoming a popular destination. The United Nations says that 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, which will increase to 68% by 2050. The U.N.’s 2018 Revision…Read More

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