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YouTube test threatens to block viewers if they continue using ad blockers | Engadget

[ad_1] YouTube is looking to take a more aggressive approach in preventing viewers from using ad blockers while watching videos on its platform. As BleepingComputer reports, people have been posting screenshots on social networks like Reddit that show a pop-up notice warning them that their player will be blocked after three videos.  The warning says …

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Seeing Clearly: The Top 9 Signs It Might Be Time for Glasses

[ad_1] Despite having amazing eyesight when you were younger, you’ll see changes in your vision as you age. It’s nothing you’re doing, it’s a natural process our eyes go through. When most people hit middle age, the eye’s ability to focus on things up close decreases. It’s called presbyopia.   But that’s not the only …

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Academe should address biases about nonbinary students and faculty (opinion)

[ad_1] The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering tracking workforce data on nonbinary employees, and last year, it announced an updated discrimination charge intake form that includes a gender option for nonbinary people. Yet gestures like censusing have not necessarily improved the overall state of nonbinary people within academe. Despite gay men having the highest …

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With enrollment prospects dim, Fitch predicts lower ratings

[ad_1] Fitch Ratings’ 2024 outlook for higher education enrollment is fairly bleak, according to data offered during an online presentation Thursday. Emily Wadhwani, Fitch’s senior director for U.S. higher education, cited demographic declines as a primary factor, especially in the Northeast and Midwest; she said certain states, including Maine and Pennsylvania, have been particularly hard …

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How college can prepare students for a data-driven world

[ad_1] Pinkypills/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ability to collect, organize, interrogate and make sense of data is an essential job skill in the 21st-century marketplace. A Harvard Business Review analytic services report notes that nearly 90 percent of organizations say success depends on data-driven decisions made by front-line employees. To ensure students can succeed in this market, …

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Professor and two students stabbed at Canadian university

[ad_1] A professor and two students were stabbed Wednesday in a philosophy class on gender issues at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, the Associated Press reported. A suspect in the stabbings is a member of the “university community,” a spokesman said. The suspect is being questioned. The three who were stabbed were being treated at a …

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Advocates celebrate ruling striking down race-conscious admissions, others pledge to fight

[ad_1] Supporters and detractors of affirmative action faced off Thursday near the Supreme Court after the justices said the use of race-conscious admissions violated the U.S. Constitution. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images For Yukong Zhao, the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to strike down the use of race in college admissions was a “sweet and long-overdue victory.” …

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New Mexico State settles basketball hazing lawsuit

[ad_1] New Mexico State University has settled a lawsuit brought by two former basketball players who alleged that they were sexually assaulted by their teammates, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The university agreed to pay the plaintiffs a total of $8 million. The settlement releases the university, as well as two coaches and three other basketball …

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