
Every school year, the value of a college degree seems to diminish, and the price tag continues to soar. But Tade Oyerinde, founder of Campus, an innovative online community college, intends to flip the script. Tade’s business model not only aims to disrupt higher education, but it also contains a crucial quality every founder should embrace.
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It has been a chaotic few days for Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, who was arrested as he landed at an airport outside Paris in his private jet over the weekend.
Following Durov’s arrest on August 24, the Telegram executive was held in custody. On August 26, French authorities

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again.
In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House Judici

Fans of politics have another way to keep track of what’s happening in the most competitive states in the country through a new service that collects and streams local newscasts.
Swing State Election News, which began operation Monday, lets streamers choose from among 37 local television stations in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wi

Plenty of people and organizations are producing online video, but editing it for posting to different social media platforms can be a laborious task.
A startup called OpusClip offers AI-powered tools that can automatically turn longer videos into short form, vertical video clips designed for social media, and even post them directly to popular platforms like TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X. Since its launch last June, OpusClip has been used b

TikTok’s “hopecore” trend manufactured internet cheer. That is, until users turned on it.
Videos labeled #hopecore once symbolized an unrelenting optimism for internet doomscrollers. The clips offered moments of joy in a sea of internet negativity. But, like so many TikTok trends that came before it, hopecore quickly ran into cynicism. These days, people use the ta

The social media platform X has made a change to its AI chatbot after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation.
Top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington sent a letter this month to

Lyft is piloting a new rider verification initiative in a handful of cities in an effort to give drivers more peace of mind over who is getting in their cars.
The pilot, which begins rolling out Tuesday, introduces what Lyft says is a “streamlined process” for verifying identities by automatically cross-checking names and phone numbers through third-party databases.
It starts with riders in Detroit, Jacksonville, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago, Denver, Mi

A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour.
Normally, the Oklahoma City police sergeant would grab his laptop and spend another

Since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President—and as of this month, the actual Democratic nominee for president—Vice President Kamala Harris has blasted past fundraising records. Within 24 hours of President Joe Biden’s endorsement in July, her campaign raised $81 million. By the end of that month, that number shot up to $200 million, bringing t