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TC Sessions: Crypto is in Miami — and 5 more reasons students should go

TechCrunch

If you’re a university- or college-level student who believes the future of finance is crypto — or even if you’re just crypto curious — pack a bag and head to Miami for TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17. Your student pass costs a mere $49. Bonus reason: Miami… in November. Buy your $49 student pass and go.

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TC Sessions: Crypto is in Miami — and 5 more reasons students should go

TechCrunch

If you’re a university- or college-level student who believes the future of finance is crypto — or even if you’re just crypto curious — pack a bag and head to Miami for TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17. Your student pass costs a mere $49. Bonus reason: Miami… in November. Buy your $49 student pass and go.

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Miami-based Ironhack raises $20 million for its coding bootcamps as demand for coders continues

TechCrunch

The Miami-based company (with locations in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Paris and São Paulo) said it will use the money to build out more virtual offerings to complement the company’s campuses. “We

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More than just fans: How women are reshaping baseball on and off the field

Fast Company Tech

Kim Ng made history in 2020 when she became the first woman general manager of an MLB team, the Miami Marlins. At womens colleges such as Smith and Vassar, students organized baseball teams as early as 1866. Callie Maddox is an associate professor of sport leadership and management at Miami University. It wasnt always this way.

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University will stop using controversial remote-testing software following student outcry

The Verge

Students head to class at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. | It uses what its website describes as “machine learning and advanced facial detection technologies” to record students through their webcams while they work on their exams and monitor the position of their heads. So, too, has scrutiny towards their practices.

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Miami twins raise $18M for Lula, an insurance infrastructure upstart

TechCrunch

Lula , a Miami-based insurance infrastructure startup, announced today it has raised $18 million in a Series A round of funding. Founded by 25-year-old twin brothers and Miami natives Michael and Matthew Vega-Sanz, Lula actually emerged from another business the pair had started while in college. “We

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College student sues Proctorio after source code copyright claim

The Verge

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the remote testing company Proctorio on behalf of Miami University student Erik Johnson. I’m doing this to stand up against student surveillance, as well as abuses of copyright law,” Johnson told The Verge. A coalition of US senators, including Sens.