We’re all experiencing Covid-19 fatigue, but you should still check out this great page at El País that shows how the virus spreads indoors when scenarios change.
How to disinfect your phone during coronavirus pandemic
According to USA Today, “Americans check their phones nearly 100 times a day — at least once every 10 minutes — and touch it an average of 2,617 times during waking hours, according to one study. That’s a whole lot of chances for…
Fun Friday Tech Tip
Here’s a Fun Friday Tech Tip for maintaining people’s privacy in your videos.
Nigerian Irish Teen Girls Win Prize For Dementia App
“An award-winning app that can help patients with dementia will launch later this month in app stores. But unlike most apps — made by professional software developers in a male-dominated tech industry — this one was created by three teenage…
Simone Giertz built a photo booth that lets her dog take selfies for treats
Simone Giertz is known for making very cool and often useless technological creations. With this creation, Giertz used Legos and some other stuff to make a photo booth where her dog could step on a pedal to take a selfie.…
Lava lamps increase cybersecurity at Cloudflare
Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps for cryptography in the lobby of their San Francisco office. LavaRand is a system that uses lava lamps as a secondary source of randomness for their production servers. Get the details on how…
Antitrust report hopes to rein in Big Tech
A 450-page report issued by a House antitrust panel hopes to reign in Big Tech. “After years of calling Big Tech too big, Democratic lawmakers are calling for Congress to rein in Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple by breaking them up, limiting…
Help Students See Themselves as Mathematicians
Dylan Kane at Edutopia wrote that “When students’ eyes are opened to the broad community of mathematicians, they reject stereotypes and gain confidence in their own abilities.” According to Kane, “One place to start is math teacher Annie Perkins’s Mathematicians Project.…
How Students Can Do Hands-On Science Safely at Home
One of the biggest challenges for science teachers right now is planning lessons that include experiments. We Are Teachers offers lab safety tips for making it safe to do science experiments at home: Use materials that are safe for and…
She helped wreck the news industry and here’s her plan to fix it
As the cofounder of a social media campaign called Sleeping Giants, Nandini Jammi perfected the art of pressuring advertisers to stop funding websites that peddle hateful content. Unfortunately, she was also accidentally destroying the news industry. Read more about it…