Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?

Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to ...
The 74

FTC, State AGs Crack Down on Ed Tech Company After Massive Student Data Breach

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. When the Federal Trade Commission announced this month it was taking action against technology company ...
InfoWorld

Document databases – understanding your options

MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB offer more choices than ever. At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux ...
Frontiers

Student support during project-based learning using simulated automated formative feedback: an experimental evaluation

1 Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia 2 LEARN! Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Project-based learning ...
The New York Times

A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea

As wealthier areas are pushing back against huge A.I. data centers, speculators are pitching places like Doña Ana County, N.M., on their vision. Local officials are eager for a deal — even if they don ...
Detroit Free Press

Data center developer defends Saline Twp. 'hyperscale' project | Opinion

For more than half a century, Related Companies has built the communities and infrastructure that keeps our cities growing and resilient. Today, that same spirit of innovation is driving us forward as ...
The Boston Globe

Real-world skills could become a requirement for high school graduation in Massachusetts

In Jean LaBelle-Pierce’s “senior project” class at Maynard High School on a recent day, one student was researching the UN’s response to war crimes in Syria; another, the ethics of breeding animals; a ...
ABC 17 News

Montgomery County approves land for two large-scale projects on Amazon data center campus

Two massive data center projects are moving forward in Montgomery County — one as part of Amazon's data center campus. The Montgomery County Commission received an administrative review confirming ...
MLive

Developers seek another AI data center on land owned by Toyota south of Ann Arbor

This story has been updated. Township officials have clarified one aspect of the story. YORK TWP., MI — A real estate brokerage is eyeing more than 400 acres in a rural community south of Ann Arbor to ...
Bleeping Computer

FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an ...
WXYZ

Saline Township residents set to protest massive data center project

SALINE TWP, Mich. (WXYZ) — Saline Township residents are fighting back against a massive data center project. They're planning to protest in downtown Saline this ...