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By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Looking back on 2025, GenAI skills remain a major focus for learners worldwide — but this year, we also saw a powerful surge in foundational workforce skills like project management, leadership, and data literacy. As AI rapidly transforms everything we know, what unites us across universities and industries is how we can help the world’s learners master the right skills they need to grow their careers. 2025 year in review: Platform growth and learner demand This year, 22 million new learners joined Coursera — nearly 82,000 people every day. A typical day…

10. The Bush family were not fans of the show. In October 1990, then-First Lady Barbara Bush called the show “the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen,” prompting the show’s writers to pen a response from Marge Simpson, who argued the family was trying their hardest. The First Lady then apologized. In early 1992, then-President George H.W. Bush said, during a speech for his failed re-election campaign, “We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American family, to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.” The writers responded in…

Despite its entirely digital construction and sometimes uncanny mix of 24 and 48FPS 3D, Avatar: Fire and Ash is full of messy human impulse which place it well above its big budget Hollywood contemporaries. As fellow Little White Lies contributor Mark Asch said, it’s funny to think of James Cameron as a traditionalist when his work has long-been technology-forward (“Recent years have seen so many former enemies upgraded to auteur status.“) but it’s those beats which make Avatar feel both old school and curiously new at once. Picking up pretty soon after its predecessor director James Cameron sticks to archetypical figures…

‘Forevermore’ was originally released on March 9, 2011 and in modern Whitesnake times, a 3 year gap is like a week as the gap between ‘Good to Be Bad’ and the previous studio album was 11 years. David Coverdale and Doug Aldrich wrote the entire album together as David likes to sit with his guitarist and come up with the songs just as he did with Vandenberg and Sykes.  The two tried to capture an album that was rooted in the early Snake albums with that blues rock feel and soak it in the modern rock of today.  Of course,…

The Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds target range by 25 basis points on Wednesday—its third consecutive rate cut—to 3.5 to 3.75 percent. Markets had anticipated the decision for weeks, reflecting growing expectations that the Fed would respond to rising downside risks in the labor market. Three officials dissented: Governor Stephen Miran again favored a larger 50-basis-point cut, while Chicago and Kansas City Fed Presidents Austan Goolsbee and Jeffrey Schmid preferred to hold rates steady. Schmid’s dissent was his second in as many meetings. Powell used his press conference to place the decision within the broader tensions facing the Fed’s…

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The five-match T20 International series between the hosts India and South Africa reaches its penultimate stage with the highly crucial fourth match at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. With India taking a dominant 2-1 lead after a comprehensive seven-wicket win in Dharamsala, the home team will be looking to secure an unassailable series victory. South Africa, having shown flashes of brilliance but struggling with consistency, must win this match to keep the series alive and force a decider. The focus for both sides will be on adapting quickly to the challenging Lucknow surface,…

Talavera v Real Madrid preview Xabi Alonso says Real Madrid are mentally ready to face Talavera at the 4,200-capacity Estadio El Prado in the last 32 of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday. “We know that the cup is a special competition,” said Alonso, whose side won for the second time in six Liga matches with a 2-1 victory at Alaves on Sunday. “It gives you the opportunity to play against teams you’ve never played before. But it’s also a competition in which there are big surprises, and we go into the game with respect and preparation. “The conditions are…

Can the Canucks land another first-round pick? David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period: Will the Vancouver Canucks be able to get another first-round pick by trading pending UFA forward Kiefer Sherwood? By the deadline, the Canucks will look to add more assets by moving Evander Kane, Drew O’Connor and Teddy Blueger. Laurent Brossoit should generate some interest Ken Wiebe: Would assume there would be some interest in Winnipeg Jets goaltender Laurent Brossoit. He carries a $3.3 million cap hit but only a $2.3 million salary. He’s a pending UFA. The Minnesota Wild should push all in this year and next…

Pritti MistryBusiness reporterGetty ImagesThe backlog of driving tests grew after the covid-19 lockdownLearner drivers face months of delays booking practical tests because a backlog will not be cleared until November 2027, a watchdog has warned.The National Audit Office (NAO) said there was a backlog of 1.1 million tests that were not carried out in the 2020/21 financial year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and around 360,000 of these had still not been booked. The average waiting time was 22 weeks in September, but at 70% of test centres the wait has hit 24 weeks – the maximum allowed.The Department for…