Are you heartbroken that Fyre Festival never came to fruition? Was Coachella so very enchanting that you want to experience it 90 more times this year?
Jimmy Iovine, the longtime recording industry mogul currently heading up Apple Music, hates free music—an idea to which Spotify, Apple’s biggest music streaming competitor, is stubbornly clinging.
On June 26, pharma bro and “most hated man in America” Martin Shkreli will go on trial for securities fraud.
A degree from a private US university may be more expensive than membership to the president’s opulent Mar-a-Lago resort these days, but here’s the good news on the former: You have a better chance than ever of getting a Donald-worthy deal.
When it was introduced in the late 1990s, the MP3—a then-novel digital audio coding format—shattered the dominance of physical CDs. It reduced audio file sizes by as much as 95%, suddenly allowing listeners to carry a massive amount of music around on tiny pocket-sized devices.
“Go forth and turn your dreams into action,” an uncharacteristically chipper Donald Trump told thousands of young adults today. “Never stop fighting for what you believe in.”
When 3 million college students in America don graduation caps and gowns this spring, their excitement will be tinged with jittery unease.
This spring, somewhere around 3 million young adults will graduate from universities in America. They’re all going to need jobs.
Trailed by a steady stream of jeers and protests, US education secretary Betsy DeVos gave a commencement speech at the historically black school Bethune-Cookman University today, asking graduates to be accepting of outside views and to rise to the challenge of service within their communities.
A score on the US college entrance exam known as the SAT is meant to be an indicator of a student’s overall academic prowess—but in reality, as many counselors and teachers already know, it’s more a reflection of how hard they studied for the SAT.
XL Recordings barely releases six albums a year. Yet the modest output of the small, London-based independent record label—which has snagged artists like Adele, Vampire Weekend, Radiohead, The xx, M.I.A., and Sigur Rós—is also its biggest strength.
If you took a math class at some point in the US, there is likely a bulky $100 calculator gathering dust somewhere in your closet.
Microsoft recently and dramatically unveiled what it says it is “the complete solution to education.” The company’s bundled launch last week included an education-specific version of the Windows 10 operating system, a handful of new programs and applications to be distributed to schools as teaching materials, and a “buttery”, classroom-friendly laptop. Clear was the message: Microsoft wants in on the exploding education technology market.
Would you rather spend four years plodding toward a diploma, or networking with Wall Street CEOs and diplomats as a member at US president Donald Trump’s exclusive “Winter White House” resort in Florida?
Hell hath no fury like teen pop fans scorned. When musician Harry Styles, formerly of boyband sensation One Direction, dropped his debut solo single “Sign of the Times” last month, a temporary glitch on Spotify made the song unavailable on the platform for several hours—sending Styles’s devotees into revolt.
Michelle Obama may champion the value of unpaid internships, but interns at these 25 companies likely aren’t complaining—as their cushy salaries are higher than that of the average full-time US worker.
Fyre Festival went up in flames last weekend in every sense but the most literal one. The inaugural two-weekend luxury music fête in the Bahamas had pledged supermodels and jet skis; what it delivered was threadbare tents and sad desk lunches.
Hannah Baker has killed herself.
The skeptics were absolutely right. Fyre Festival was too good to be true.
A year after giving the world her album Lemonade, Beyoncé is giving out student aid.
Just as the fallout over Milo Yiannopoulos is starting to ebb, the University of California-Berkeley finds itself at the center of yet another controversy over free speech and liberal campus culture.
Barack Obama cut short his post-presidential vacation today (April 24) to speak to students at the University of Chicago, in his first public appearance since leaving the White House in January.
Yale is quite discerning; it accepted only 6.27% of applicants last year. But not as discerning as Yale-NUS College—the controversial branch campus that Yale set up with the National University of Singapore in 2011—which last year took only 5%.
It was one year ago that Prince died in his Paisley Park, Minnesota home. In that time, the team responsible for maintaining the mansion has cataloged 7,000 of the late musician’s belongings—and 2,000 of those are shoes.
