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Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board

​[[{“value”:” Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Innovative Math and STEM Activities for Elementary Students

​[[{“value”:” Let’s combine Math and STEM with collecting data. Students will use data to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range after completing each task! This is all about cup stacking! Now, you know this is true >>> If you give a group of students a stack of cups, they will immediately take them apart and start building pyramids. #right…

Ways to Combine Math, STEM, & Fun!

​[[{“value”:” Let’s combine an exciting STEM Challenge and collecting data. Students will use data to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range after completing each task! This is all about cup stacking! Now, you know this is true >>> If you give a group of students a stack of cups, they will immediately take them apart and start building pyramids….

Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera

​[[{“value”:” NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper takes a different approach, however, performing groundbreaking space science with 36 pixels. That’s not a typo — 36 pixels, not 36 megapixels. The X-ray Imaging […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs

​[[{“value”:” The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion in new funding from investors, including Coatue, Fidelity and Altimeter Capital. The round brings its valuation to $19 billion post-money and its total raised to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

The rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point

​[[{“value”:” I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30 seconds of turning it on that it was shipped a couple months too soon — but honestly … that’s fine? This AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch….