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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

NVIDIA, the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday are helping close this gap with Signs, an interactive web platform built to support ASL learning and the development of accessible AI applications. Most deaf children are born to hearing parents.

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DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch

Singularity Hub

Learning From Experience Children naturally soak up their environment. Scientists have adopted the same principles for AI, essentially raising algorithms like children. The post DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch appeared first on SingularityHub.

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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

SEE ALSO: Parents need to talk to their kids about this online danger right now Childhelp, a leading child safety non-profit organization, developed the curriculum in partnership with Meta, and in consultation with other topic experts, including the Department of Homeland Security and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

We must engage our children during their formative yearsideally starting in elementary school, while their worldview and brains are being developedand before resources get passed down. This bigger lens can help children explore questions such as: Why are we here? Integrate your children. What is our purpose?

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Bolstering collaboration to protect legal aid amid new challenges 

Candid

While the political and legislative environments are ever changing, we will always need public service workers to power our society, run our public infrastructure, teach our children, protect our communities, and defend our legal rights. Only by working together can we ensure that public service endures.

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Earth Day 2025: Detroit plants sequoias to clean the air—and save the trees

Fast Company Tech

Caring for the sequoias will fall to future generations, so Milarch has instigated what he calls tree school to teach Detroits youth how and why to look after the new trees. We empower our kids to teach them how to do this and give them the materials and the way to do this themselves, Milarch said. How will the sequoias impact Detroit?

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A new Nebraska law wants to make social media less addictive for kids

Engadget

The Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act, also known as LB504, details that social media companies can only collect the minimum amount of personal data from younger users, and offers parents more tools to limit how their children use their accounts.