Egalitarians are more aware of inequality
Some of our disagreements about inequality come from people's failure to notice it. Enlarge / Do you notice the homeless person's tent or the city's skyscrapers? (credit: Wally Skalij / Getty Images) The COVID-19 pandemic has helped draw atte.....»»
Remote teaching during the pandemic disadvantages students in New Jersey"s lower-income school districts
The rollout of remote teaching in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic was haphazard, under-resourced, inequitably delivered, contributed to student and teacher stress and may exacerbate digital and social inequality, according to a Rutgers study......»»
Study chronicles presence of chronic frames of race, gender, and wealth inequality
All social inequalities, by definition, involve one group that has more and another that has less. Do people prefer describing inequalities in terms of advantage or disadvantage?.....»»
WeavAir looking for specialized sensory chips suppliers for fully automated air-monitoring solution
Aware of the air quality and the impact of exhaust emissions since her days studying Ph.D., Natalia Mykhaylova and her team at WeavAir created an analytics tool to help clients in hospitality, retail, transportation, commercial, logistics, and indust.....»»
Orca Security unveils Shift Left Security capabilities to prevent cloud application issues
Orca Security announced a cloud security solution to provide context-aware Shift Left Security for cloud infrastructure and applications. Orca Security helps DevOps teams understand the potential impact of security issues on cloud application product.....»»
Neoliberal policies, institutions have prompted preference for greater inequality, new study finds
Neoliberalism, which calls for free-market capitalism, regressive taxation, and the elimination of social services, has resulted in both preference and support for greater income inequality over the past 25 years, shows a new study by a team of psych.....»»
Photoshop for iPad shifts closer to feature parity with desktop app in latest update
An update to Photoshop for iPad has been released, bringing it closer to feature parity with Photoshop for Mac. The new features include Content-Aware Fill, Remove Background, Select Subject designed for hair and people, Auto-tone, color and contras.....»»
Adobe brings Content-Aware Fill & more to Photoshop for iPad
Adobe has unveiled a new update to its Photoshop for iPad app that introduces a number of features previously restricted to the desktop version.Credit: AdobeThe new features include a Content-Aware Fill tool, a Remove Background tool, and a Select Su.....»»
Despite ideals, people don"t really like reducing inequality, study finds
Most Americans say they want a more equal society, yet policies aimed at increasing equality for disadvantaged groups in higher education, corporations, government, and elsewhere continue to generate backlash......»»
Studying wealth inequality in animals can reveal clues about how their societies evolved
Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealth inequality in animals can help shed light on soci.....»»
I deleted Postmates because of the TikTok-famous Caraway cookware set
Even though I'm a passionate home cook, I'm not ashamed to admit that Postmates rises to the occasion when I'm in a cooking rut and don't have it in me to whip up a unique meal. Recently, though, I became aware of Caraway, a line of cookware that fus.....»»
German auto industry braces for Russian gas disruption as Ukraine war continues
The possibility that Russia could halt the flow of gas into Germany as a tactic in its war with Ukraine has made automakers and suppliers hyper-aware of their operating vulnerability......»»
What’s new on Disney+ in May 2022
Disney+ has Star Wars and MCU content, along with Pixar films, Disney Channel shows, and much more. Here's every new addition that you should be aware of......»»
Fluid flow stimulates chemosynthesis in a "Greek salad" of hydrothermal microbes
Most visitors to Paliochori Beach on the Greek island Milos may not be aware of the bay's shallow-water hydrothermal community, a veritable Greek salad of microbes, that is within snorkeling distance from the shoreline......»»
Bonifii and Entersekt provide context-aware biometric authentication technology for credit unions
Bonifii and Entersekt announced a new partnership bringing context-aware authentication technology to credit unions through MemberPass Express, powered by Entersekt. MemberPass is the first KYC-compliant member-controlled digital identity issued by c.....»»
Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public schools
Nearly 70 years ago—in its 1954 Brown v. Board decision—the Supreme Court framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequality. It did not, however, challenge the lengths to which states went to ensure the unequal funding of Black sch.....»»
Citizens of countries that become more unequal as their economy grows are less happy, says research
Countries that allow economic inequality to increase as they grow richer make their citizens less happy, new research shows......»»
Key YouTube features and services experience worldwide outage
A number of YouTube's services and features are down and YouTube is aware and working on a fix for it. You can get the latest updates on the situation here......»»
OpenBB Wants To Be an Open Source Challenger To Bloomberg Terminal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Anyone who has worked in the financial services sector will at least be aware of Bloomberg Terminal, a research, data and analytics platform used to garner real-time insights on the financial mark.....»»
Upload depicts economic inequality in the digital afterlife
The digital afterlife has been explored in many TV shows, but none in such a clever, satirical, and cynical way as in Amazon Prime Video's Upload......»»
10 female inventors who changed the world forever
The women on this list have risen above inequality, creating products and services that have truly changed the world......»»