A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Wednesday signed a bill that will require a cursive handwriting curriculum in all Pennsylvania public schools. “I’m definitely rusty, but I think my penmanship was okay!” Shapiro ...

Google and Khan Academy are integrating Gemini into literacy tools: The partnership starts with Writing Coach and will add a new Reading Coach tool later this year. Writing Coach supports grades 5–12 ...

Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that's what Big Tech is yelling from the rooftops at the moment. It's quite a ...

Ben Affleck reveals why he thinks AI will never replace actors or screenwriters I wanted to demonstrate this to my students, so I devised an experiment that would, I hoped, reveal the limitations of ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...

Autonomous agents will soon run thousands of enterprise workflows, and only organizations with unified, trusted, context-rich data will prevent chaos and unlock reliable value at scale. Provided ...

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity. By Ivan Penn and ...

Organizations seek domain experts to train AI datasets. AI data training is becoming high-level, cognitive work. Pay rates for these specialists range very broadly. AI data trainers who ensure the ...

I also have, shall we say, a fragmented attention span, and my therapist likes to routinely bring up how many women my age have undiagnosed ADHD, which I now take as a not-so-subtle hint. So I need ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...