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At this Louisiana French school, Cajun and Native dialects come first : NPR

March 19, 2025 admin No Comments

Clotilde Poujade practices French pronunciations with students at École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion school in Terrebonne Parish, La. Aubri Juhasz/WWNO hide caption toggle caption Aubri Juhasz/WWNO Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. One card has a picture of…

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FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

March 19, 2025 admin No Comments

The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and the agency’s landmark privacy lawsuits under former chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs were removed. On the FTC’s website,…

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Can a new college football stadium buy a seat at the table? Inside USF’s $340 million bet

March 19, 2025 admin No Comments

TAMPA, Fla. — In September 2021, Will Weatherford stood between green and gold balloons under a white canopy and made the proclamation that could change the trajectory of South Florida football. After playing their first 25 years across town at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ stadium, the Bulls were ready for their own home. Weatherford vowed…

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Amanda Seyfried stars in a heartfelt mystery : NPR

March 19, 2025 admin No Comments

Amanda Seyfried plays a police officer investigating the disappearance of her sister in Long Bright River. Matt Infante/Peacock hide caption toggle caption Matt Infante/Peacock Every crime story takes place somewhere, but those “somewheres” can be very different in kind. There are the artificial somewheres of Agatha Christie’s country houses and the mean streets of noir….

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South Korea’s Bithumb Clears Legal Hurdle, Steps up IPO Quest

March 19, 2025 admin No Comments

The South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has overcome a key legal hurdle as it steps up its efforts to become the first platform in the nation to launch an IPO. Per a report from the South Korean media outlet Business Post, the Supreme Court has ruled against the prosecution in a long-running fraud case involving…

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Dell’s new RTX Pro AI PC boasts an ‘unlimited turbo’ mode

March 18, 2025 admin No Comments

Dell’s new Pro Max AI PCs boast the new Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell GPUs, making them desirable to AI developers for that reason alone. But the new desktop and laptop lineup also include several nerdy new innovations that we haven’t seen before, including an “infinite turbo” mode that most gamers would pine for and 18-inch…

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2025 NCAA Tournament bracket picks: Why CJ Moore has Florida topping Duke for national title

March 18, 2025 admin No Comments

The men’s basketball selection committee had an easy job at the top of the bracket this year. The 2025 NCAA Tournament might have the best collection of No. 1 seeds in March Madness history. By the numbers, it is the best, at least in college basketball’s advanced analytics era, which dates to 1997, when Ken…

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South African actor John Kani has risked his life to tell stories of apartheid : NPR

March 18, 2025 admin No Comments

John Kani in Kunene and the King at Shakespeare Theatre Company. Teresa Castracane Photography hide caption toggle caption Teresa Castracane Photography Actor, playwright and activist John Kani is a legend in South Africa. He was arrested, beaten and almost left for dead because of his work developing and starring in plays that were often searing…

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House of Doge and Dogecoin Foundation Unveil Board-Elect, Advisors and Global Dogecoin Adoption Plans

March 18, 2025 admin No Comments

[PRESS RELEASE – Miami, FL, March 17th, 2025] Board-Elect and Advisory Team Include Top Executives in Payments, Sports, and Global Food & Beverage, With Additional Members Being Announced In the Coming Weeks House of Doge has shared key details of its previously announced exclusive five-year partnership with the Dogecoin Foundation. This milestone partnership, aimed at…

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How Alabama is teaching its students to be math stars : NPR

March 17, 2025 admin No Comments

Math teacher Diane Laney hard at work in her third-grade classroom at Ider High school, which serves grades K-12. Students use counters to help model multiplication. Charity Rachelle for NPR hide caption toggle caption Charity Rachelle for NPR In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of…

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