09-15 Breaking News! TikTok Deal Announced – Details Forthcoming

US, China reach ‘framework’ deal for TikTok The U.S. has reached a “framework” deal with China for social media platform TikTok, CNBC reported, citing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “It’s between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon,” CNBC quoted Bessent as saying on the sidelines of a meeting between the two […]

09-12 National Missing Children Database Now Accessible Through Community-Focused Map

Critical data about missing children in the US can now reach local communities through an investigative mapping tool once available only to law enforcement. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) manages an interactive site called Poster Map. Anyone can click into the map to see the faces of children who have disappeared […]

09-07 How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids’ Classrooms

Nate Fairchild had just instructed his eighth grade students to write a summary of a disturbing passage from Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night when he dropped a surprise: He’d customized a chatbot to help them by masquerading as the Nobel Prize-winning writer and answering their questions. “Is that gonna get weird?” Fairchild asked, then answered […]