Big Tech is urging us to rely on chatbots for most everything, but we need to be careful of offloading our creative and deliberative thinking, and thus losing our humanness.

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

The Syracuse City School District added 13 new jobs to deal with a new payroll system after a rocky transition left hundreds of teachers unpaid or underpaid to start the school year. The SCSD Board of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio lawmakers are pushing for a new course in middle and high schools focused on what’s called the “Success Sequence” — a three-step formula they say could help reduce poverty rates.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Mark Anthony Dyson, writer of the Job Scam Report newsletter, shares tips on how to spot and avoid online job scams. The number of scams involving job postings and offers nearly tripled between 2020 ...

In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, Zandi underscored the gravity of the data blackout. “There is no more important economic data, particularly now, when the job market is sputtering and the ...

Welcome to jobs Friday — except there’s no U.S. employment report today. Blame the latest government shutdown in Washington. That’s not to say Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are flying blind.