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Harvard and MIT sue Trump administration to save their foreign students

The latest rules force the universities' foreign students to leave the United States unless they attend at least one in-person course

09 Jul 2020 10:09 AM

The free and open-source prototype Private Kit app was developed by teams at MIT and Harvard as well as software engineers of Facebook and Uber who worked on it in their free time.

Join efforts to trace the coronavirus route map in your locality by downloading this app

The MIT prototype Private Kit: Safe Paths app works by sharing location data between users, without revealing who the users are.

23 Mar 2020 5:46 PM

The project is funded through a grant from the US State Department.

Harvard, Levi Strauss, US think tank in blockchain tie-up on worker welfare

Factories in Mexico producing goods for Levi Strauss and will be the first to use the blockchain-powered survey.

25 Jan 2019 11:11 AM

Despite the accuracy compared to Coulomb's forecast method, the AI system is not completely ready.

Google, Harvard build AI that predicts earthquake aftershocks

Neural networks were trained using historical seismological data, 131,000 mainshock-aftershock pairs to accurately predict aftershocks.

31 Aug 2018 6:41 PM

Mr Blum and his organisation’s incomplete and misleading data analysis paint a dangerously inaccurate picture of Harvard College’s whole-person admissions process by omitting critical data and information factors.

What Harvard says

As they know, this work was explicitly understood to be preliminary and incomplete, and it was done with limited admissions data.

04 Jul 2018 2:30 AM

Many states in India follow the reservations policy as part of affirmative action and social engineering. So for us to argue against racial balancing in the U.S. is far-fetched.

Race neutrality helps students grow

It is in a nation’s best interests to properly develop the minds of its brightest and best so they may be able to tackle the problems of the future.

04 Jul 2018 2:27 AM

American Dream fails generations of blacks: study

While white men who grew up wealthy tend to stay that way, black boys raised in affluent families are more likely to become poor.

20 Mar 2018 1:55 PM

Sabyasachi Mukherjee in damage control mode

Following backlash for trying to ‘shame’ women into wearing a sari, designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee apologised in an open letter online.

15 Feb 2018 12:28 AM

Study suggests feeling peers have better social life could affect real happiness

Social media perpetuates the idea that other people are more social than you.

18 Sep 2017 6:54 PM

Watch Mark Zuckerberg find out he got accepted into Harvard

Mr. Zuckerberg is due to take his honorary degree at Harvards next week.

19 May 2017 2:57 PM

Prime MInister Narendra Modi. (Photo: File)

PM mocking credible varsities will only isolate India: Harvard student

He said the Prime Minister's remarks will push away Indians like him who wish to return to their country after studying abroad.

07 Mar 2017 8:43 PM

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