Why is machine vision a hard problem? As humans, we look at a dog and we see the dog. That’s all there is to it. Surely making machines that do the same isn’t that hard, right?

A lot of what engineers do is hidden away. Few members of the public give much thought to sewer systems, road bridges, power grids and flood barriers, impressive feats though they are.

England’s Bletchley Park, famous for its World War II codebreaking success, is about to put on display some of the actual Nazi messages it decrypted.

The first ever bug bounty program was launched in 1983. The prize for finding a bug in the software? A Volkswagen Beetle (a bug – geddit?).

In August last year courseindex.com published an article about how blockchain techno

The cryptocurrency boom and its underlying blockchain technology is generating such levels of global interest that even authoritative institutions like the London School of Economics –

Science fiction authors imagined artificial intelligence (AI) using its superior computing power to conquer humanity. Lucky for us, that hasn’t come to pass (yet!).

The recent US college admissions scandal hit the news largely because a few celebrities were involved, but this kind of thing must be going on all the time.

A family business can be anything from a single mom-and-pop store to a global corporation like Red Bull, BMW or Mittal Steel.

LinkedIn Learning have published a list of the skills

“I don’t have time for mindfulness and meditation!” says everyone with a job ever. “I’ve got too much to do!”

What skills do employers value most? The ones that fill a hot current skills gap, like blockchain or cybersecurity?

Disenchantment with the impersonal nature of the current education system is leading to a return to an old-school idea which puts character development ahead of standardized acade

When it comes to eating healthily, would you take advice from a celebrity or a world-famous medical school?

The cuisines of New York City are the cuisines of the world. Not because of some kind of American culinary imperialism but because it is a city made up of immigrants.

“Doing what you like is freedom.

Liking what you do is happiness.”

The BBC has used research data from the Institute for Fiscal Studies to publish an interactive salary checker based on degree

Narcissists are particularly dangerous people. They can be charming, intelligent, and entertaining to be around.

‘Knowing the ropes’ has entered popular parlance as a metaphor for acquiring the skills and knowledge necessary to do a job.

A spate of recent food safety lapses have highlighted the need for restaurant managers to renew their food safety training and make doubly sure that staff working on their premises are trained or r

The event management business is booming. The consumption of things is falling in favour and the consumption of experiences is rising, especially among millennials and younger people.

Food Safety Managers are not only the overall managers of establishments but also chefs, cooks and owners.

Serving alcohol to people can have undesirable consequences if it is not done sensibly.

If you think food safety training is just more government nannying, visit foodsafetynews.com and read the horror stories of E.coli deaths, hepatitis and

History isn’t dead. It’s living, present-day events that just happened to occur at a different time.

Imagine a time when only certain people were allowed to wear purple. That time was the Elizabethan period, when your clothes defined who you were infinitely more than today.

A new video lecture course has emerged which brings a fresh angle on the ancient and classical worlds, delivered by a lecturer whose enthu

Is popular culture the frivolous fluff floating on the surface of human existence, or the very glue that binds societies together? Well, it’s both, really.

Have you always doodled? Do you cover every available piece of paper in ideas, designs and cartoons?

Put the headset away. Everybody has got to stop confusing AR and VR.

The world’s biggest video site, YouTube, is like a public library. It contains pretty much every kind of video, just as a library contains pretty much every kind of book.

If you haven’t watched the Jodie Foster film Contact, watch it now. We’ll wait.

So, what’s up with the blob of jelly inside our skulls? How does it work, and why does it make us do what we do? Answering these questions is the domain of psychology.

Working with animals. What images do those words conjure up? Veterinary nurse or surgeon? Animal shelter worker? Professional dog walker?

The 2017 hurricane season has been one of the most violent on record, with the highest number of major hurricanes since 2005 and it’s not even over yet.