Pew Research Center

What Makes People Proud of Their Country?

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
MarketWatch

College sports has a new money problem — and St. John’s may be the latest example: ‘It’s the Wild West’

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...
AOL

California’s tech billionaires will leave in droves over wealth ‘seizure’ ballot measure — that won’t even fix state’s problems

We’re a little over a month into an industry-wide conversation about the future of tech in California, which is largely taking place off social media. At this point, most people know the conversation ...
Grist

Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them.

With community opposition growing, data center backers are going on a full-scale public relations blitz. Around Christmas in Virginia, which boasts the highest concentration of data centers in the ...
The Lowell Sun

Lowell uses data to measure, address city’s homeless crisis

LOWELL — The city is using data to track and measure homelessness, which is leading to more resources to address the needs of the vulnerable population. Both overdose deaths and hepatitis B cases are ...
Medical Xpress

Study finds early measure of overall health may predict future memory problems in older adults

New research suggests that a person's overall physical and mental abilities, known as intrinsic capacity, may help predict future cognitive decline. Intrinsic capacity is a concept developed by the ...
Reuters

Google says US transmission system is biggest challenge for connecting data centers

Jan 14 (Reuters) - Connecting to the U.S. electrical transmission system has become the biggest problem for powering up Google data centers on the grid, as the wait times to connect surge to more than ...
Hosted on MSN

Kendrick Perkins points out NBA’s American athlete problem using Ja Morant example

In the 2020s, the best players in the NBA have mostly been European. As the likes of LeBron James and Stephen Curry entered the twilight of their careers, Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Luka ...
CNN

The Fed admits it can’t easily fix an economic problem it helped create

The Federal Reserve’s policy decisions in recent years have contributed to a worsening of economic inequality in America, and some of the central bank’s policymakers say it’s not a problem they can ...
E&E

Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it

Tech companies and lobbyists are investing millions of dollars to tackle a new political problem for the industry: Data centers, the lifeblood of the growing artificial intelligence economy, are ...
KGW8

Oregon's Measure 110 program is failing to prove effective, final state-mandated audit finds

PORTLAND, Ore. — Since voters approved it back in November 2020, Oregon's Measure 110 has earned a surge of criticism, as its decriminalization of hard drugs in user quantities coincided with the ...
The Conversation

Expensive data and poor internet access: South Africa fails to measure up against Brazil

Ashraf Patel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...