Amazon and Code.org Tap Lil Nas X and Katy Perry To Teach Children To Code Slashdotby msmash on programming at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at November 20, 2019, 11:32 pm)

theodp writes: To help Prince Charles quickly learn the Welsh Language, viewers of The Crown learned this week, Labour prime minster Harold Wilson engaged Welsh nationalist Dr. Edward "Tedi" Millward as his reluctant tutor. To help U.S. children quickly learn to code, readers of Medium learned this week, Code.org and Amazon have engaged Lil Nas X and Katy Perry to be their Hour of Code tutors this December (guess the pair aced their interview with Jeff Bezos!). Last year's signature Hour of Code tutorial Dance Party , Code.org explains, has been given a facelift -- "New backgrounds and foregrounds!" "New songs!" "A brand new character!" -- to yield this year's signature Hour of Code tutorial, Dance Party (2019 Remix) . Separately, the AWS Public Sector Blog Team just announced it's teamed up with the MIT Media Lab on a Scratch-based Hour of Code activity to introduce AWS cloud computing technologies to kids 7 and up. AWS Educate also recently announced it's out to connect the K12 crowd to AWS cloud services, offering free capped AWS Educate Starter Accounts as well as look-Ma-no-limit credit-card backed regular AWS accounts to the 570,000+ students and 300,000+ volunteers participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST Tech Challenge.

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November US Democratic debate: Everything you need to know AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at November 20, 2019, 11:00 pm)

From the schedule to the candidates: Six things to know about the fifth Democratic debate.
November US Democratic debate: Everything you need to know AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at November 20, 2019, 11:00 pm)

From the schedule to the candidates: Six things to know about the fifth Democratic debate.
November US Democratic debate: Everything you need to know AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at November 20, 2019, 11:00 pm)

From the schedule to the candidates: Six things to know about the fifth Democratic debate.
November US Democratic debate: Everything you need to know AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at November 20, 2019, 11:00 pm)

From the schedule to the candidates: Six things to know about the fifth Democratic debate.
Google Earth Gets Content Creation Tools For Geography-Focused Presentations Slashdotby msmash on google at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at November 20, 2019, 10:58 pm)

Google Earth is getting a new content creation feature set. From a report: You'll now be able to make presentations using Google's vast 3D Earth imagery and point-of-interest information. It's sort of like a geography-focused Powerpoint. Back in 2017, Google Earth was completely rebuilt from a desktop application to a WebGL-based browser app at earth.google.com/web. Starting today, on the left side of the website, you'll see a new "Projects" button, which will let you create a presentation. Just like a Google Doc or Sheet or Slide, these Google Earth Projects get saved as files on your Google Drive. And like a normal presentation, you can create slides and attach text, images, and videos.

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[no title] Scripting News(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:35 pm)

A technical solution to Nunes lying and being an asshole.
[no title] Scripting News(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:35 pm)

A technical solution to Nunes lying and being an asshole.
[no title] Scripting News(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:35 pm)

A technical solution to Nunes lying and being an asshole.
[no title] Scripting News(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:31 pm)

Trump rides around on our Air Force One, we're paying millions for his golf vacations, so he can hack the next election using our money. When did we become such chumps. There's got to be a line in here somewhere.
[no title] Scripting News(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:31 pm)

BTW, let's see those tax returns.
[no title] Scripting News(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:30 pm)

Trump rides around on our Air Force One, we're paying millions for his golf vacations, so he can hack the next election using our money. When did we become such chumps. There's got to be a line in here somewhere.
[no title] Scripting News(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:30 pm)

Trump rides around on our Air Force One, we're paying millions for his golf vacations, so he can hack the next election using our money. When did we become such chumps. There's got to be a line in here somewhere.
Baltimore museum will acquire art only by women in 2020 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:29 pm)

The museum wants more female-identifying artists in its collection 'to rectify centuries of imbalance.'
Baltimore museum will acquire art only by women in 2020 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at November 20, 2019, 10:29 pm)

The museum wants more female-identifying artists in its collection 'to rectify centuries of imbalance.'