[ad_1] WhatsApp has launched a new feature called Channels that makes it much more like a social media app, the Meta-owned company announced. It allows accounts to send one-way broadcasts to followers in the form of “text, photos, videos, stickers and polls,” much as you can with an app like Twitter. Broadcasting accounts can decide …
[ad_1] WhatsApp is a messaging app with big plans. On Thursday, Meta-owned WhatsApp announced that a new feature, WhatsApp Channels, is coming to the encrypted messaging service. Channels is a “one-way broadcast tool for admins to send text, photos, videos, stickers and polls,” the company said in a statement. You’ll be able to use a …
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[ad_1] The Federal Communications Commission has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Avid Telecom, the same company sued by nearly all Attorneys General in the US for alleged robocall activities. In the letter (PDF) addressed to Avid CEO Michael Lansky, the FCC said it has determined that the company “is apparently originating illegal robocall traffic on …
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[ad_1] The word forum has appeared in 1,140 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 2 in “How the Arts Can Help Us Face the World’s Most Pressing Challenges” by Farah Nayeri: These sobering statistics were cited last week at the three-day Art for Tomorrow conference, an annual event organized by the …
[ad_1] Navajo Technical University in New Mexico has come a long way since its founding about 40 years ago as a job skills training center with five signature vocational programs. The tribal university—which rests on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., an expanse roughly the size of West Virginia—changed names multiple times and …
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[ad_1] As the founding president of Olin College of Engineering, Richard K. Miller knew he had an advantage in graduating students with a sense of purpose that would serve them well down the road. The experimental college had its choice of students, “gazillions of dollars” and a made-from-scratch curriculum focused on project-based learning. It was …
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[ad_1] The Fiscal Responsibility Act, passed by Congress last week to avert default, caps federal spending increases over the next two years. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty Images Although federal spending on domestic programs will be flat in the upcoming fiscal year, advocates and higher education lobbyists say there’s still a chance to secure …
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[ad_1] Connecticut governor Ned Lamont and leaders of the state’s higher education institutions reached a deal Monday to shore up higher education funding in the budget for fiscal year 2024. Under the new proposed budget, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system would receive over $1.1 billion for fiscal year 2024, $50 million more than the budget …
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[ad_1] The University of Houston announced it will spend $38 million on new safety measures at Agnes Arnold Hall, a campus building closed since March following two student deaths by suicide in a matter of six weeks. University president Renu Khator shared the plans for building renovations and student mental health services, recommended by two separate …
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[ad_1] Like many predominantly online universities, National University serves large numbers of parents, full-time workers and members of the military—people who are used to the challenge of managing different roles and responsibilities. That skill for balancing life’s demands inspired the name and identity of the university’s new mascot: a peregrine falcon named Navi. University officials …
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