Middle school often gets a bad rap. It’s a time when students begin questioning rules and the world around them, becoming increasingly focused on fairness, equity and forming closer, yet fewer relationships. In the classroom, this might play out as a student getting upset when a teacher tells her to stop chewing gum despite a […]
Tesla, recent recruit to the $100bn club, must be hoping it will become as unassailable as the likes of Amazon and Apple Even in our age of tech billionaires, Elon Musk’s potential pay packet from Tesla is eyecatching. If the Californian carmaker’s average market value stays above $100bn (£76bn) for six months, he will be […]
You’re reading Smart Ways To Use Your Phone To Increase Productivity, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you’re enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Guess what? Smartphones are not the enemies of productivity. Shocker. Sure we spend up to four hours a day on them, […]
As of 2019.3, the new Asset Import Pipeline is the default for new projects, aiming to save you time with faster platform switching and laying the foundation for faster imports. We’re also making the asset pipeline scale better for very large projects. Read on to find out more about the new improvements, and our motivation […]
This article is part of the guide, What Does Reading Well Look Like? I can read. I am a reader. On the surface, these sentences seem to say the same thing, but I would argue that they are distinctly different ideas. One is grounded in the mechanics of phonetically crafting words from the combination of […]
This article is part of the upcoming guide, What Does Reading Well Look Like? One of the most impactful activities from my Master’s coursework in secondary English education was a reader biography. As an introduction to our teaching methodology class, our professor asked us to catalog all the books we could remember reading up to […]
Flaunting its tech savvy, 7-Eleven has embraced mobile payments by introducing WeChat Pay and Alipay at participating stores in Canada. Convenience retailer, 7-Eleven, has announced that participating stores in Canada will now accept Alipay and WeChat Pay payments. Reflective of the chain’s collaboration with cross-border mobile payment company, Citcoin, the move begins with activation at 35 locations […]
Sharp-eyed NewsCred customers might have noticed a new name on the Q3 product newsletter. We’re lucky to have a brilliant, possible insomniac Vice President of Product here at NewsCred: Tzi-Kei Wong. She took a break from shipping many (seriously!) new product features for a quick interview about what goes into building and improving a leading […]
After Dr. Antonio Pérez steps down from his position as president of Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) later this month, he will focus his energy on further developing his app, HiddenChalk. During his time as college president, Pérez noticed that many students were entering college unprepared for their coursework and exams. He believes that […]
– Lia Koltyrina/Shutterstock In the search for new treatments, science often focuses on medication first. But drugs aren’t the only way to fight illness, particularly when looking at brain diseases. My research looks into how playing specially designed computer games might help people who are living with Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s is a brain disorder that […]
