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No surprise, it’s the certificate offered by LinkedIn-owner Microsoft. Microsoft first launched these in 1992 , but let’s all pretend like the learn-to-code alt-certification thing is brand new. Via the EFF : “Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review.”

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” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books.

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” Via The Verge : “ Microsoft secures $480 million HoloLens contract from US Army.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Tutoring company Topica Edtech Group has raised $50 million from Northstar Group. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. State and Local) Education Politics.

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Microsoft had a media event this week. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Via Edsurge : “How Proposed Title I Changes Impact School Funding and Edtech Vendors” – “ A Win for Edtech Vendors.” Via The Backchannel : “ Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms.” “ Elsevier Wants CloudFlare to Expose Pirate Sites,” TorrentFreak reports.

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Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.”

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?” The company sold MinecraftEDU to Microsoft in 2016. .” Please stop. Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers. ” More on the survey from The Chronicle of Higher Education. But that’s okay.