As the new school year gets well underway, Gen Z is once again facing a daunting question: Is the degree they’re pursuing actually going to be worth it? A new ranking of America’s top 500 colleges is offering a helpful insight: they don’t necessarily need an elite name on their diploma to land a six-figure
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation for our Cost of Living video series with Devonte Duncan, 27, a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York City. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I started making six figures, I remember my friends and I would go out to eat, and the
The Hundred women’s competition, Lord’s MI London 122-9 (100 balls): Kerr 69* (41); Dean 3-26 London Spirit 119-8 (100 balls): De Klerk 35 (29); Matthews 2-21 MI London won by three runs Scorecard. Table Melie Kerr played a magnificent lone hand with the bat to keep struggling MI London’s faint qualification hopes alive in the
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, has been accused of a practice known as “cookie-cutter stuffing,” which may have helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it didn’t actually generate, according to a Bloomberg investigation. The report sparked controversy and led to Phia’s suspension from
Qingdao rail manufacturer CRRC Sifang Rolling Stock worked with a Chinese doctoral student to improve manufacturing techniques for its Cetrovo subway trains.Credit: Zhang Jingang/China Report/Future Publishing via Getty For most graduate students, a written thesis is a requirement to complete their studies. But in China, a law passed in 2024 allows some people to graduate
