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This is mafia level stuff from Google to kids - "Don't be evil" used to be their slogan - a very far cry from that ideal.
Google announced that early next year it would turn off AI tools in its K12 software unless administrators explicitly choose to make such tools available. But schools that choose to restrict AI will lose access to Google search. Why wait till next year? nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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No motion capture. No tethers. Just onboard perception and reinforcement learning taking on the real world. Watch our vision-based policy handle noisy depth streams and intermittent visibility to roll, upright, and re-orient tires in an unmapped skatepark and learn how we built and trained this onboard system: rai-inst.com/resources/blog/…
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🤖 Ready, set, robot!
Join us Nov. 19 to explore Tinkercad Robotics! Discover how students can use block-based coding and simulation to bring their 3D creations to life.
🔗 tinkercad.com/blog/26-fall-w…
#Robotics #TeachingWithTinkercad #Robotics #STEMeducation #CodingForKids
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Join NASA’s Night Sky Network on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 6:00 p.m. PT (9:00 p.m. ET) for a livestream discussing half a century of science with our Voyager mission as Voyager 1 approaches 1 light-day from Earth. The event will also be recorded. Details: youtu.be/lG0djnmkRYM
ALT An illustration of one of NASA’s twin Voyager probes against an abstract purple and blue background that gives the impression of deep space. Voyager has a white, upturned dish atop a black cylindrical body. A long antenna extends from the body toward the upper left and other shorter hardware protrudes from the sides and bottom. The image is watermarked “Artist’s concept” and “Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.”
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Trump is dismantling the science system that made America a superpower. NIH has delayed or canceled over 2,000 grants on Alzheimer’s, cancer and more, NSF is withholding more than $1 billion, Energy lost over 1,000 scientists, and Pentagon labs lost 14% of their staff, which the Pentagon itself says could have grave consequences for defense. China is catching up while foreign Ph.D. applications drop 21%. We built this over 80 years, and it’s being gutted in under two. nytimes.com/2026/10/31/clima… #MedSky #LawSky #press #Science #NIH #NSF #Research #DOGE #China
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Sesame Workshop mourns the loss of Sir Patrick Stewart. Thank you for being our friend and for sharing your brilliance, joy, and kindness with the world. 💛💚
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web. motherjones.com/environment/…
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We need to get rid of the presidential pardon power. It’s a mistake we haven’t already.
This is anti democratic
🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court agreed Saturday to the Trump administration’s request that it consider its unprecedented bid to block California from counting tens of thousands of ballots. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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EA's complete misunderstanding of BioWare's RPG heritage and a desire for mass market, microtransaction-fuelled action games has robbed us of one of the industry's greats. bit.ly/4skXwy5
