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Here’s how we can make STEM classes more accessible to students in rural America

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by on May 1, 2019 at 3:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


More than ever before, there is a high demand in the workforce for an increased emphasis on education in mathematics and sciences for school-age students. After all, two-thirds of all available jobs will require postsecondary critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are obtained in math and science classes by 2020. To best serve the younger generation who will soon enter the workforce, STEM education should be available in every school. The areas of greatest concern lie in rural America. Some 8.9 million students, or about 20 percentof the public school population, attend rural schools. Rural students often do not have equal access to…

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Video: The Big Face Box is a box that makes your face, uhm, big

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by on May 1, 2019 at 3:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This video is part of our series on Lille’s Maker Faire. To stay up-to-date on releases (and to find out more), check out our master post here. We all have days when we lean on a window, look at a grey, grumbling sky, and think “why isn’t my face bigger?” Thankfully – truly a kneel on the earth and worm your fingers into the dirt sort of “thankfully” – there’s a solution: the Big Face Box. As the name (and headline) suggests, this is literally a box that when you put it on your head it makes your face big. To…

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The Hull City AFC ‘cryptocurrency’ buyout has quietly fallen through

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by on May 1, 2019 at 2:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Contrary to what reports from last year suggested, English Championship football club Hull City AFC won’t be getting acquired by cryptocurrency crowd funding platform SportyCo. According to sources familiar with the matter, SportyCo’s managing director, Marko Filej, met with the club’s owners and agreed on a price. However, after that price was disclosed to investors supporting SportyCo’s bid, the deal fizzled out to nothing. Sources claim the price was “higher than the real market valuation.” Here’s what happened Last year, reports claimed the Hull City Supporters Trust (HCST) – an organization set up to represent Hull City supporters – and…

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Here’s what Facebook announced at its F8 developer keynote

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by on May 1, 2019 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


As Facebook continues to weather a string of legal battles and harsh criticism for its never-ending privacy disasters and a generally lackadaisical attitude towards consumer data, the social networking site kicked off its annual F8 annual developer conference at San Jose yesterday. It took to the event to outline a new “privacy-focused vision” for the company. “The future is private,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the crowd of 5,000 developers, creators and entrepreneurs assembled who reacted to the remark with dead silence. As part of that transition, the company plans to merge together its three massive messaging apps — Messenger, Instagram…

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Dutch central bank tested blockchain for 3 years. The results? ‘Not that positive’

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by on May 1, 2019 at 2:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The Dutch central bank developed and evaluated four distributed ledger technology (DLT) prototypes in three years, but so far blockchain hasn’t lived up to the hype, The Banker reports. In fact, the only use-case it can easily envision is cross-border payments, after it discovered that markets with efficient payment systems that exist (such as Nordic countries and the Netherlands) don’t really benefit from blockchain. The bank said limitations of DLT include inefficiency caused by high energy consumption, lack of full certainty that payments are completed, and capacity shortages. “We started with baby steps, understanding the Bitcoin software and mining in a centralised…

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