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Instagram is making it easier to address people by their defined pronouns. The company announced today that it’s allowing people to add up to four pronouns to their profile, which they can then choose to display publicly or only to their followers. (Users under 18 will have this setting turned on by default.) Continue reading Instagram will let people list their pronouns on their profiles
By Becky Sullivan and Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR
Gay and transgender people will be protected from discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, effectively reversing a Trump-era rule that went into effect last year. Continue reading U.S. Will Protect Gay And Transgender People Against Discrimination In Health Care
BY SOPHIE LEWIS, CBS News.
A huge piece of space junk made an uncontrolled re-entry back into Earth’s atmosphere Saturday night. The remnants of a Chinese rocket re-entered the atmosphere and crashed into the Indian Ocean north of Maldives, according to the 18th Space Control Squadron. Continue reading Debris from Chinese rocket re-enters Earth’s atmosphere over Indian Ocean
As you know, companies all over the world looking at the Colonial Pipeline attack. Robert Cattanach is a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney. He has previously worked as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice and was also special counsel to the Secretary of the Navy. Continue reading Immediate Lessons From Colonial Pipeline: What Companies Should be Considering
IOScholarships (IOS), the first of its kind scholarship and financial education platform for minority STEM students recently announced the launch of its search engine website. The technology has been designed with a streamlined user-friendly interface that offers great functionality to help high school, undergraduate and graduate students find STEM scholarships. Continue reading IOScholarships Provides Free Access to STEM Scholarships
By Katie Hunt, CNN
A toddler laid to rest with their head on a pillow in a cave in eastern Kenya is thought to be the oldest human burial ever found in Africa. Continue reading The oldest human burial in Africa was a toddler laid to rest with a pillow
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Microsoft is adding a new Reading Progress feature to Microsoft Teams, designed to help students improve their reading fluency. Reading Progress works by allowing students to record themselves reading a passage of text, and offering teachers the ability to assess accuracy rates, mispronunciations, and more. Continue reading Microsoft Teams’ new reading feature helps students during the pandemic and beyond
By Jackson Ryan , C|Net
Nothing built by human hands has ever traveled faster than NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a diminutive, scorch-proof spacecraft about the size of a small car is practically “touching the sun.” In late April, it smashed two wild space records, dethroning the previous champion — which also happened to be NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — and its journey is really just beginning. Continue reading NASA solar probe becomes fastest object ever built as it ‘touches the sun’
By Miriam Kramer, Yahoo! News
NASA and SpaceX still appear to be pushing to meet the 2024 deadline to land astronauts back on the Moon first set by the Trump administration. Continue reading NASA and SpaceX still pushing for a Moon landing in 2024
By Todd Haselton, CNBC
Apple’s $29 AirTag lost item tracker begins shipping on April 30. I walked through what it’s like last week, but I recently bought a similar tracker from Tile. Continue reading Here’s how Apple’s AirTag trackers compare to Tile, and why the company is so upset with Apple
