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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

Kodland says it has around 1,000 teachers on its platform (some are employed by it, some are gig workers, depending on the market); while the “typical” ratio is one teacher per 15 pupils. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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4 Important Membership Trends Every Museum Needs to Consider

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According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000. According to Nielsen, 81% of global respondents feel strongly that companies should help improve the environment. Increasingly Eco-Conscious Audiences.

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Apple’s latest sci-fi drama Invasion starts out too dang slow

The Verge

The big hook of Invasion is that it’s a global story. Over the first few episodes, you’re introduced to a sheriff in Oklahoma, a housewife in Long Island, a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan, a teen in London, and an expert in Tokyo working with the International Space Station.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. The news shows big tech companies are profiting from consumers’ thirst for home entertainment during the global coronavirus pandemic. After Wednesday’s catastrophe, it hardly seems like hyperbole to suggest that our world could hang in the balance. billion for a 7.73

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TikTok’s biggest problem is outside its control

The Verge

Perhaps realizing that the app may be caught up in an intractable conflict between global superpowers, TikTok stars have begun to panic. If there’s an argument that a smaller Facebook would somehow make our global hate speech problem worse , I still have yet to read it. Trending up : Apple has allocated $400 million of a planned $2.5

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TikTok is having a monster 2020

The Verge

Today felt like an unusual lull in the intersection of our many unfolding national and global crises, and so I thought I’d take the opportunity to write about something different — a subject that, despite all my best efforts, I keep getting crushingly wrong. Instagram hired Melissa Waters as its new global vice president of marketing.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

The Verge

And like other projects with global ambitions, it will also invite new scrutiny over privacy, data security, content moderation, and more. Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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