Monthly Archives: October 2022

Elon’s biggest Twitter free speech question is in the courts, not on the platform

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Back in April, Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter to save free speech. Now, he’s apparently buying Twitter again, and it’s revived questions about what exactly he meant. A lot of this attention has focused on Twitter’s moderation policies, particularly whether he’d let people like former President Donald…

DE in the News: September 2022

Read the latest collection of Discovery Education in the News to see how DE is impacting schools and students around the world. From empowering Arizona schools with dynamic Hispanic Heritage Month resources to introducing exciting career explorations to students through interactive STEM experiences, we’re proud to bring creative, engaging instructional resources to educators everywhere. How a District…

Tesla is ditching a key type of sensor. Here’s what that means for its vehicles.

Tesla said it would restore parking functionality for the sensor-less cars via a software update, but didn’t provide a timeline for those updates. Deposit Photos This article was originally featured on The Drive. New Tesla models leaving the automaker’s factories won’t be equipped with ultrasonic parking sensors beginning this month and will rely solely on…

Crypto adoption skyrockets in Middle East and North Africa due to favorable economic climate

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was the fastest growing crypto market in 2022, according to a new report by Chainalysis. Users in the region transacted $566 billion in cryptocurrency between July 2021 and June 2022, up 48% from a year earlier, the report found. In comparison, crypto transactions rose 40% in Latin America,…

Waiting for Raspberry Pi: Eben Upton talks supply constraints and demand shock

Hardware hobbyists wanting to get their hands on some juicy single-board Raspberry Pi kit to power low cost electronics projects have been having a frustrating time for more than a year now, as pandemic-triggered global supply chain disruption continues squeezing reseller inventory. Go try and buy Pi and you can’t miss how official reseller websites…