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Can learning pods scale, or are they widening edtech’s digital divide?

Lucia, a six-year old, hides from Zoom calls and has rejected every edtech tool from Seesaw to Khan Academy. She will spend all of first grade in quarantine.Her mother,

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Facebook launches TikTok clone, Instagram Reels

Screenshot from the Instagram Facebook's Instagram is officially launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok — Instagram Reels.The new Instagram feature will let users record and ed

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Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US

Instagram Reels, the company’s significant effort in challenging TikTok on short-form creative content, is launching globally, starting today. The feature is being made available across 50 count

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Millennials, younger generations make up majority of U.S. population: study

Millennials and those born after them make up a majority of the U.S. population for the first time, according to a new study published on Tuesday. However, older gener

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China Focus: Pepper growing spices up life in deep mountains

For decades, Kou Rui's father kept the family of seven afloat through the huajiao (Sichuan pepper) trade. Like father, like son. Kou, 38, has built his own fortune fro

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Indonesia's supernatural healers adapt to life and pandemic

02:46 In his dimly lit living room, Cokro Pamungkas is glued to his phone while reciting a prayer. The earthy smell of incense fills the air as he glances at his client's photo and kee

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Google signs up six more partners for its digital banking platform coming to Google Pay

Google is expanding its plans to offer digital banking services in the U.S. The company announced today it’s partnering with half a dozen more banks to offer digital checking and savings account

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Snapchat to take on TikTok with a new music-powered featuring rolling out this fall

Snapchat is taking aim at TikTok. The company announced today it will begin testing a new feature that lets Snapchat users set their Snaps to music, similar to TikTok’s app. The feature may allo

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Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming a real bank

Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming its own bank. The company announced on Friday it has been granted a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and secured r

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Interview: Expert warns of 2nd wave of infections as U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 150,000

Pedestrians walk past a social distancing notice on Times Square in New York, the United States, July 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying) A leading U.S. immunologist warned a "second wave of infections" mig

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Debate for who's first in line for COVID-19 vaccine begins in the U.S.

Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it's a vexing decision."Not eve

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Kenya's COVID-19 infections rise beyond 22,000

FILE PHOTO: A sanitation worker fumigates using sodium hypochlorite in an archive room to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the Milimani commercial courts in Nairobi, Kenya, July 17, 2020. /Reuters

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WHO warns partying youngsters not to 'let down guard' on COVID-19

Revellers jump and dance in a swimming pool during the Arenal Sound Music Festival in Burriana on July 31, 2019. /CFP Young people letting down their guard to enjoy the summer holidays are par

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WHO chief highlights role of young people in fighting COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday highlighted the role of young people in curbing the COVID-19 outbreak. "Although older people are at a high

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What does accountability look like in 2020?

“What happens after a company gets called out?” he asked over the phone. “Do you know what happens to the people in-house that come forward?”I didn’t.A Black male engineer at a

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Study: U.S. adults who mostly rely on social media for news are less informed, exposed to more conspiracies

A new report from Pew Research makes an attempt to better understand U.S. adults who get their news largely from social media platforms, and compare their understanding of current events and political

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Are young people to blame for new rise in coronavirus cases?

The infection rate among young adults is being underestimated because of "skewed" testing, a virology expert tells Sky News.