A Udacity course by Google will teach engineers and data scientists the basics of deep learning, which informs much of Google’s tech.
Techies who have some background in machine learning may want to tune into Google’s new course on deep learning. Available through Udacity—home to a host of open online courses—the class is expected to run about three months, assuming people put in about six hours of work per week.
Soon after the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer published an exposé, the Kochs assembled a team of operatives to target her, she claims.
The Koch brothers, who control the second-largest privately held company in the United States, hired former NYPD commissioner Howard Safir to dig up dirt on journalist Jane Mayer, she claims in a new book.
We make a mistake in conversation roughly every 4.6 seconds. The more you try to sound like Churchill, the less you will.
“Okay folks, uh, there’s—I have to apologize,” Steve Harvey said, moments after millions of Colombians had started celebrating from their living rooms.
Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes explains why the skills gap you haven’t heard of is getting wider, and what it takes to close it.
On February 4, 2004, a handful of Harvard students logged onto a newly launched website called thefacebook.com. Just a dozen years later, some 2 billion people—nearly a third of the planet’s population—are social media users.
Cofounder Kayvon Beykpour on how the live-streaming service came to be, why it sold itself to Twitter—and where it’s going.
It’s just before 11 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in San Francisco. At the offices of live video-streaming app Periscope—located in an alley next door to a combo café/laundromat/arcade—cofounder Kayvon Beykpour and engineer Aaron Wasserman are huddled in a conference room, preparing to do a Periscope about Periscope. More specifically, it will be about the fact that Twitter’s iOS app has the new ability to display live Periscope streams and replays right alongside tweets, photos, and other elements.
Alessandra Ghini shares insights from her work in marketing at Apple and Starbucks on the precipice of each company’s second golden age.
When we see an energetic advertisement from Apple that inspires our sense of adventure, or exchange hellos with a Starbucks barista in a way that feels like we’re talking to a friend, we fall hook, line, and sinker for the brand. These moments are obviously constructed, but we don’t register them as such.
You are not—and will never be—one of those 62 people, so act accordingly.
Just 62 billionaires now hold as much wealth as almost half the world’s population. And, before 2016 is out, it’s likely this global 1% will be worth as much as everyone else combined.
Zum launches out of beta today. Can it make parents trust the Uberization of child care?
While Ritu Narayan was working as a group product manager at eBay, she faced a challenge familiar to many working parents: “Both of my kids transitioned from home to car to school, and suddenly I had the pressure of being at three or more places at the same time,” she says. “I no longer needed a dedicated nanny or assistant at home, but finding somebody part-time who was very trustworthy and reliable to pick up my kids, take them to activities, and stay with them at home while I’m still at work was challenging.”
76 years ago, the U.S. had a government-funded universal child care system. Can it ever happen again?
Day care costs more than college tuition in most states in America.
These four steps can make completing your daily tasks better for your professional development than taking formal training.
If one of your resolutions for 2016 was aimed at professional development, there’s still hope.
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