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Moscow: New IT training facilities with modern equipment will be opened in 35 schools in Moscow. The curriculum has been developed by major IT companies and includes in-demand subjects such as robotics, electronics, big data, communication technologies, programming, modeling, prototyping, and IT security. Eduard Lysenko, Minister of the Government of Moscow and Head of the city's Department of Information Technologies, gave an open lesson for students of Lyceum No 1502, who became the first participants in the new educational project "IT Classes in Moscow Schools". Addressing the children, Lysenko spoke about Moscow's achievements and potential in the sphere of digital technologies, about sought-after professions in the IT-sphere, and about Moscow's future development as a smart city. "These new IT classes are about creating a new educational environment for children who are planning a future in information technologies. Moscow is a city where innovation and technology are being … [Read more...] about New IT training facilities introduced in Moscow schools

Update: The Apple News Plus magazine list is below, and we found 271 newspapers and magazine in the new app, meaning you can expect more publications soon to meet that 'more than 300' promise.Apple News Plus is bringing magazines into the fold, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook during today's Apple TV Plus keynote, giving you access to over 300 high-quality digital magazines and premium newspapers in the Apple News app.It launched on Monday, March 25 in the US and Canada, and while Apple's fancy, curated RSS news reader will remain free, the digital magazines and newspapers will cost money – luckily just one flat fee for access to all of the premium content.Launching with iOS 12.2, Apple News Plus builds on the success of Apple News, which is already the No. 1 news app in the world, according to Cook. He cited its unique features like hand-picked stories, saying "it's critical that it's trusted."The new magazine portion of the app take cues from Texture service, a small digital … [Read more...] about Apple News Plus: magazine list, cost, and release date

Today’s big acquisition is a huge agritech exit: Biotech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release says $930 million, we’re hearing from investors that the actual price is past the $1 billion mark, because part of the all-cash deal will be paid out over time as an employee retention plan. Climate Corporation is backed by Founders Fund, Khosla, Google Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures and Atomico. The company uses machine learning to predict the weather and other essential elements for agribusiness. Monsanto focuses on providing seeds, biotechnology traits and crop production products for farmers around the world. The acquired company will continue to operate as the Climate Corporation, and Monsanto will leverage its big data expertise to optimize farming globally. This is a pretty cunning move. It comes on the same day that Monsanto — one of the world’s … [Read more...] about Monsanto Buys Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For Around $1.1B

Eighty-five years ago, Winston Churchill wrote an article for Popular Mechanics that predicted humans would soon be growing their meat rather than cultivating animals for it. Now, with $17 million in fresh financing from a slew of new investors, including the billionaires Bill Gates and Richard Branson, the big agriculture company Cargill and the venture capital firm DFJ, Memphis Meats is hoping to create an entirely new industry around what it calls “clean meat.” “Instead of using animals as pieces of technology to convert plants into proteins to make things that we like to eat, drink and wear, we can just use biology to make those things directly,” said Seth Bannon, a co-founder of the upstart venture firm Fifty Years and an early investor in Memphis Meats. The company has already successfully made synthesized beef, chicken and duck, according to Memphis Meats co-founder and chief executive Uma Valeti. Now the trick is to get the company to grow their … [Read more...] about Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat

take it easy Google's not forcing you to swipe quite yet. Joe Maring 16 Jul 2018 6 Android Pie is here, and one of its biggest features is the new navigation gestures. The new gestures are a welcome touch, but if you can't live without your Home, Back, and Recents buttons, you've got nothing to fear for the time being. When you update your phone to Pie, the gestures are turned off by default. If you want to enable them, you've got to go to Settings -> System -> Gestures -> Swipe up on Home button. However, things won't always be this way. Starting with the Pixel 3, new phones that ship with Android Pie out of the box will have gestures turned on by default with no way for users to revert to the traditional buttons. Forcing everyone to adopt the gestures might seem a bit heavyhanded, but that's the only way Google's going to be able to improve upon them and make them even better than they are in their current form. Plus, with just a little practice and patience, … [Read more...] about PSA: Gestures aren’t turned on in Android Pie by default