​ Each spring, Northeastern Splash offers students in grades 8-12 the opportunity to take engaging classes taught by Northeastern undergraduate students on a wide array of topics including stand up comedy, medicine, filmmaking, and robotics. This year, the free one-day event will take place at Northeastern University’s Ryder Hall on Saturday, March 29, from 9AM-5:10PM. A free lunch will be…

​[[{“value”:” The InvenTeam Grants Initiative, created by the Lemelson-MIT Program, offers teams of high school students, educators, and mentors grants of $7500 to develop technological solutions to real-world issues the students care about. Applications are now open for teams seeking grants. Up to ten schools are awarded grants each year, with Newton included among past successful teams. Apply here by…

​[[{“value”:” Edge on Science will offer its Space Science summer program at Lasell University each week from July 28-August 15, 9AM-4PM, for students entering grades 5-9. Students entering grades 10-12 may register as counselors in training after calling 315-773-5673.  The camp costs $935 per week for campers and $735 per week for counselors in training, but you can save with…

​[[{“value”:” Chinese search engine Baidu has launched two new AI models — Ernie 4.5, the latest version of the company’s foundational model first released two years ago, as well as a new reasoning model, Ernie X1. According to Reuters, Baidu claims that Ernie X1’s performance is “on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price,”, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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​[[{“value”:” Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup hopes to one day commercialize. Joby, which went public in 2021 via special purpose acquisition merger, did not provide a timeline for when it plans to launch its partnership with Virgin in […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo smart speakers and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving. CEO Jay Graber discussed the proposal earlier this week, while on-stage at South by Southwest, but it attracted […] © 2024 TechCrunch….