As the number of Covid-19 cases in the US continues to rise, many parents in the country are getting ready for a fall semester based entirely on remote learning. Attempting to teach and learn from home has put a tremendous strain on all parents, teachers, and students, but for families without access to high-speed broadband…
London has seen many protests in its 2,000 years, but a chant that rang out in front of the Department for Education this past Sunday was likely a first. “Fuck the algorithm,” yelled a crowd of impassioned teens, many of them masked against a pandemic virus.The crowd was protesting the statistical calculus that assigned final…
As students go back to school across the United States, the assumption that children and teens play little role in spreading Covid-19 is taking a beating. One Georgia school district quarantined more than 900 students and adults. At another in Mississippi, more than 100 students were sent home. One Indiana high school didn’t even make…
For the past few years, up until the pandemic hit, Bill Ristenpart, a chemical engineer at UC Davis (and next-level coffee geek), had been bringing a team of researchers and crates of expensive instruments across the country each summer to New York City and into the lab of Nicole Bouvier. An infectious disease physician and…
Depending on your income, there’s a good chance you can file your taxes online for free. Over the years, however, a handful of tax prep companies have misled millions of consumers by hiding this option on their websites. That’s according to a recent report from New York’s Department of Financial Services, as well as a…
Amazon devices are always affordable, which means when they go on sale, they get really cheap. Right now, Amazon’s Fire HD Tablets, especially the Fire HD Kids Editions, are at some of the lowest prices we’ve seen recently. Amazon recently refreshed its 8-inch Fire HD 8 tablets (8/10, WIRED Recommends), and these brand-new versions are…
As the parent of a kindergartener, I’ve watched schools across the country implement their opening plans with a mix of horror and fascination. They differ widely from state to state, county to county, and even district to district. But most of these plans will involve some form of remote schooling.This poses a problem for working…
Scientists reckon that something like 99 percent of the plastic that should be out in the environment is missing—that is, given what we know about the rates of pollution, it should be more conspicuous. But instead, all that trash seemingly disappears when it reaches the oceans. So over the past few years, researchers have been…
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019.Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFacebook announced Wednesday that video conferencing apps headlined by Zoom will be coming to its Portal video-calling devices in a few weeks. Zoom, BlueJeans, LogMeIn’s GoToMeeting…
Apple will launch the iPad Air 4 in March 2021 with an A14 processor, according to Chinese site MyDrivers. According to “foreign sources,” the report corroborates previous rumors that Apple will bring the iPad Air 4 much closer to the current iPad Pro in terms of design and features. The iPad Air 4 will reportedly…
