Kelly Thomas woke up in a Florida hospital four years ago with no recollection of the car accident that had robbed her of the ability to walk. Thomas, an active college student who had barrel-raced in rodeos, moved to Kentucky for a year to try out a research study that she hoped would retrain her spinal cord on how to walk.

In February, a trainer who had been scooting along the floor at Thomas's feet, helping her move her legs and place her feet as she used a walker, stopped and stood up.

Read more at Chicago Tribune.

It's been 20 years since Google Search first arrived on the web, and the company is updating its core product with a slew of new features for the anniversary.

The throughline for the features is AI. Google Search now anticipates and customizes much of your search experience automatically, and it also uses AI on the back end to do things like create relevant clips from videos. Another clear focus is mobile, mobile, mobile. At the event in San Francisco, where Google announced the new features, virtually every slide showed how the new tools would look on a smartphone, not a desktop.

Read more at Mashable.

Going to college is a serious investment. Over 44 million Americans collectively hold nearly $1.5 trillion in student debt because they know that earning a college degree is crucial to get ahead in the modern economy.

But some college majors pay off more than others. According to the Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce, early childhood education majors report median earnings of $36,000 a year while petroleum engineering majors see median earnings closer to $120,000. Overall, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors consistently have some of the highest rates of employment and the highest incomes.

Read more at CNBC.

The number of senior Americans who call themselves boss is growing steadily. In 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found the self-employment rate among workers aged 65 years and older was higher (15.5 percent) than any other age group. Retired seniors are still working, and many are working for themselves.

Seniors certainly have the same drive and entrepreneurial skills as any other age group. Many who want to learn how to make money in retirement turn to their hobbies as jumping off spots for launching a small business. If you match the right hobby with the right business plan, you can make it work. Here are some ways to make money in retirement by turning your hobby into a successful business.

Read more at Business.

In this series, The Gambit, Entrepreneur associate editor Hayden Field explores extraordinary risk, speaking with successful people about how they overcame unusual obstacles to found a company or switched industries entirely in a "career 180."

Mark Greene started his path to the Air Force during a time of peace, but when the 22-year-old graduated, he was sent almost immediately to Afghanistan.

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One of the most crucial tasks an entrepreneur has is to calculate the size of their market, and the potential value that market has for their startup business. Without this data you can’t create a viable business plan, or be taken seriously when approaching potential investors.

As described in my book, The Art of Startup Fundraising, the market needs to be in the billions. Otherwise, even if you have the perfect team and product the returns will be limited for potential investors making your investment opportunity less attractive.

Read more at Forbes.

With the advent of artificial intelligence technology,anxiety worldwide has been growing in recent years over if, how and when robots will replace human labor and shape major industries. Although automation is often treated as both a global opportunity and a challenge, new research shows that not every country is equally afraid of the new technology.

An opinion poll recently released by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center shows that while the majority of people in the 10 countries surveyed worry about job automation, their anxieties vary greatly, with their fears about technology's impact on the future tied in large part to how their country's economy is performing today.

Read more at US News.

After spending decades inventing submarines and suits to explore the deep sea, Phil Nuytten now plans to build a colony there.

Read more at BBC News.