SoundCloud wants to make its streaming music service more affordable to a key demographic: younger users who generally spend more time listening to music, compared with their older counterparts. This morning, the company announced the launch of discounted student accounts, offering a 50 percent discount off its top-tier SoundCloud Go+ subscription. That brings the cost […]
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Amazon to fund computer science courses in over 1,000 U.S. high schools
Amazon’s recent investments in NYC educational initiatives will continue, despite the company pulling its HQ2 plans for the area. But the company isn’t stopping there. Today, Amazon announced it will bring computer science courses to over 1,000 high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The classes, which are funded through Amazon’s […]
View More Amazon to fund computer science courses in over 1,000 U.S. high schoolsCharming Irish students sing and dance on flight
Move over One Direction, there’s a new boy band in town the sky.
A group of students from St. Brendan’s College in Killarney, Ireland recently belted out two aggressively charming tunes while on a Ryanair flight. The group performed the lively “S…
ESA’s SpaceBok is training for missions in space
Students from two Swiss universities designed SpaceBok, a quadruped robot being trained for missions to Mars and the moon. Read more…More about Space, Mars, Moon, Students, and Training
View More ESA’s SpaceBok is training for missions in spaceThousands of students walk out protesting government inaction on climate change
Never underestimate the power of a group of passionate, angry young people.
Thousands of young Australian students ditched their classrooms on Friday protesting their government’s lack of action on climate change.
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Peer tutoring platform Knack raises $1.5M from Charles Hudson, Jeff Vinik
Knack, a peer tutoring platform aimed at college students, is taking a different approach than some online tutoring marketplaces have in the past. As a result, the Florida-based startup has raised a $1.5 million seed round co-led by Charles Hudson’s Precursor Ventures and Tampa Bay Lighting owner and Fenway Sports Group Partner, Jeff Vinik. Other […]
View More Peer tutoring platform Knack raises $1.5M from Charles Hudson, Jeff VinikWith ‘Rivals Week,’ Tinder tests an expansion of its well-performing Tinder U
Starting this weekend, Tinder will allow college students on its Tinder U service to match with others outside their own university for the first time. The dating app is positioning this market test of a potential Tinder U expansion as the “Rivals Week” – a way to match users with those who attend a rival […]
View More With ‘Rivals Week,’ Tinder tests an expansion of its well-performing Tinder UPeople are pissed that Sen. David Perdue snatched a student’s phone
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Senator David Perdue snatched a Georgia Tech student’s phone from their hands on Saturday, and people are pretty outraged.
When visiting the Atlanta campus to attend a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp, Perdue was questioned by a GT member of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) about voter suppression in Georgia.
Kemp has recently become the subject of scrutiny, after an Associated Press report indicated that 53,000 voter registrations are sitting in limbo within Kemp’s office — most of these belong to black voters and other minorities. Read more…
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Instagram returns to Facebook roots with university-based groupings
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When Facebook started off it was essentially an online yearbook based entirely on where you went to college — you could only log in if you had a .edu email address.
In the intervening 14 years the social media platform has changed the digital landscape (to put it mildly), acquired other networks like Instagram, and moved far from its university-based networks. But now Instagram is considering a feature very similar to Facebook’s early days.
A new feature reportedly being tested allows student ‘grammers to join networks or special communities based on their school affiliation. Read more…
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View More Instagram returns to Facebook roots with university-based groupingsTinder’s latest feature, Tinder U, is only for college students
Tinder is today rolling out what may be one of its smartest additions yet with the launch of Tinder U, a feature designed specifically for Tinder users in college. Once enabled, students with a .edu email address will be able to register with their school, then swipe on students who also attend their school or […]
View More Tinder’s latest feature, Tinder U, is only for college studentsThis $600 shoe-tying robot was made by college students
Engineering students from the University of California, Davis, created a machine that can tie shoelaces on its own. The students had only two motors and a $600 budget to work with. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Robot, Artificial Intell…
View More This $600 shoe-tying robot was made by college studentsApple launches its free Schoolwork app for teachers
Apple this morning launched Schoolwork, a free app for teachers that was first introduced at Apple’s education event in Chicago back in March. The cloud-based app allows teachers using iPads in the classroom to create and distribute handouts and other assignments, collaborate individually with students, track students’ progress, and – perhaps most notably – allows […]
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