Except this. This is the only part the neural network did not write. Blame our CMS.

Over a month ago, the Education Department announced that it would “forgive loans” taken out by 500,000 students of Corinthian, a sprawling network of for-profit colleges. Corinthian had lured students with false hopes of career training and an entryway into the middle class, but only gave them substandard educations, worthless diplomas, no resources for employment, and tens of thousands of dollars in debt... By David Dayen.

These maps from NASA show ocean currents around the world.

Study of plant remains on shores of Sea of Galilee show crop cultivation may have developed 23,000 years ago

Even as the United States provided China with its highest-level access to military drills, the U.S. military leadership consistently ratcheted up the level of confrontation in the South China Sea.

A team of people who constantly sift through hateful online comments to find would-be assassins or terrorists

There are a billion Earths in this galaxy, roughly speaking. Not a million. A billion. We’re talking 1 billion rocky planets that are approximately the size of the Earth and are orbiting familiar-looking yellow-sunshine stars in the orbital “habitable zone” where water could be liquid at the surface. That’s a billion planets where human beings, or their genetically modified descendants, as well as their dogs and cats and tomato plants and crepe myrtle trees and ladybugs...

Data shows 95% of Google privacy requests are from citizens out to protect personal and private information – not criminals, politicians and public figures

Ex-Googler and Beeswax CEO Ari Paparo tweeted...

As search engines get better, we become lazier. We're hooked on easy answers and undervalue asking good questions

Remember Ello? Ello first grabbed the attention of the tech world last fall by billing itself as the "anti-Facebook" social network, railing against the Facebook's targeted advertising and offering up a bare-bones ad-free alternative. But as with most aspiring Facebook challengers, its spotlight dimmed as quickly as it began. Now, in a bid to reclaim some of that buzz, the social media upstart is buying its own ads from its Goliath competitor — and turning them into winking jabs...

With Apple Music preparing to launch its subscription service next week and Taylor Swift criticizing its royalty payment plans, forcing that tech giant to change course, it's a busy time for the music industry. On Tuesday, Google is going in the opposite direction of Apple's $10-a-month service, launching a free, ad-supported version of its $9.99-a-month Google Play Music in the U.S. The company says it's designed to give artists another way to...

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would cut 7,800 jobs and write down about $7.6 billion related to its Nokia handset business, which it acquired in 2013.Most of the job cuts will be

A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that federal student aid programs are doing more harm than good. When subsidized federal loans have the effect of "relaxing students’ funding constraints," universities respond by raising tuition to collect the newly available cash. The resultant tuition hikes can be substantial: The researchers found that each additional dollar of Pell Grant or subsidized student loan money translates to a tuition jump of 55 or 65 cents,...

Google’s decision to skew its search results in favor of its own services hurts users, a study released Monday claims. The findings are sure to add a new layer to the company’s ongoing antitrust battle in Europe. The paper, written by Columbia Law School’s Tim Wu and Harvard Business School’s Michael Luca, is backed by Yelp, which has filed an antitrust complaint against Google.

When counting the 50 tallest buildings in the world, it starts and ends in the UAE, with the Burj Khalifa in Dubai coming in at number 1 and the Landmark in Abu Dhabi rounding out the list at number 50.

The Mozilla Firefox web browser now blocks Flash by default. And when I say “blocks,” I don’t mean it asks you nicely if you’d really like to use Flash. I don’t mean it automatically pauses Flash videos like Google Chrome. I mean Mozilla has decided that Flash is going down.

www.ustream.tv/channel/6540154 here you can find NASA's official coverage.

“Hello #Pluto! We’re at closest approach. Congrats to all! Follow our story & view new images using #PlutoFlyby.”

Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement. I'm delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original reddit CEO, is...

What countries look like if they're sized proportionally to their number of internet users.

It’s almost impossible to create a place for the best of humanity without opening up a Pandora’s box of the worst.

Google today announced its own self-driving car design, which will drive people around without a steering wheel, pedals, or brakes. It's the latest project from Google X, the company's skunk works group headed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

Anyone who wants "white history month" should learn instead about how whiteness has been used to discriminate

A pilot program, which the university system estimates is saving 1,100 students a combined $130,000, is the latest in a shift on the nation's campuses toward digital learning. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California State University system and the Washington State college system are among those that have built libraries of free online course materials in recent years.

MOOCs, massive open online courses, have the potential to radically change higher education. Anyone with an Internet connection has access to high-quality classes from universities like Harvard and Duke. Read on to learn more about seven of the most popular MOOCs and some of the great free classes they offer.

There are plenty of ways to continue your education... Without the price tag.

If you really want to know how the economy is doing now, just Google it. At least that’s the goal of a growing number of researchers who are turning to big data in hopes of unlocking the secrets of the economy at the speed of the Internet. The movement — dubbed “nowcasting” — is piquing the interest of policymakers in Washington and around the world frustrated by the long lag in official government statistics as they make decisions where timing is everything.

College is one of the world's last institutions left largely unchanged by the corrosive torrent of digital data and Wi-Fi beams, but it's the one that needs the Internet's help most.

Net neutrality is standing in for a national conversation about deeper values.