Bootstrapping Success: Platform Shares Hard-Won Entrepreneurship Lessons for Building Companies Without Venture Capital

Resource Explores How First Customers Can Fund Product Development and Why “Impossible” Problems Create Opportunities Venture capital is not the right choice for many businesses. It works best for a ...

Vibrant Publishers’ Digital Consumer Behavior Essentials Now Available for Early Review on NetGalley

Author Filippo Marchesani shows how algorithms shape every click and equips marketers with a practical, ethical lens for understanding digital behavior. COLORADO, CO, UNITED STATES, January 2, 2026 ...
Frontiers

Liberating the open and distance learning model from the chains of oppressive education theories

This study argues that open and distance learning (ODL) continues to function as a platform for producing factory-like workers and white-collar laborers whose primary function is to serve the ...
IEEE

Distributed Robust Dispatch for Networked Microgrids With Coalition Game-Guided Multiagent Adversarial Safe Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: The integration of distributed energy resources introduces demand-side flexibility and uncertainty, challenging dispatch of networked microgrids (MGs). This article proposes a coalition game ...
CNN

‘The worst I’ve seen’: Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories explode online, from the left and right

Baseless conspiracy theories about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk have exploded on social media in the week since the shooting, with partisans from both sides pushing a dizzying ...
news.ucsc

New theories on dark matter’s origins point to ‘mirror world’ and universe’s edge

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter ...
The Conversation

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

Edward C Holmes receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia). He has received consultancy fees from Pfizer Australia and ...
acm.org

Rethinking Distributed Computing for the AI Era

The recent emergence of DeepSeek’s remarkably cost-efficient large language models has sent shockwaves through the AI industry, not just for what it achieved, but for how efficiently it achieved it.
The New York Times

Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating.

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...
Scientific American

Where Does Consciousness Come From? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...