Sunday, December 31, 2017

Happy New Year!!!!!




The DLL wishes all of its readers the best of all possible good fortunes in a 
happy new year!!! ... :-)

Friday, December 29, 2017

TECH Dozens 2017 -- Year ending Sunday 12/31/17

Last update: Sunday 12/31/17 @ 11:30 pm

This year's cover = FCC votes to end net neutrality ... Other stories = Google partners with Howard University to expand tech pipelines ... Purdue University buys Kaplan University for $1... President Trump fires FBI Director Comey



The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the year ending Sunday 12/31/17 ... stories worth remembering and stories that we dare not forget.


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles


DLL Editor's apology -- The links to the icons for some tweets are no longer valid, so a "question mark" logo appears instead.

Sunday, December 10, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 12/9/17

Last update: Sunday 12/10/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = Alpha Zero teaches itself to become chess expert in four hours ... Other stories = Recode's top 100 techs and others ... Bitcoin  booms at $14K ... $16K ... $20K ... Google hires 10,000 human moderators for YouTube because machine learning isn't effective

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 12/9/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, December 03, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 12/2/17

Last update: Sunday 12/3/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = North Korea launches ICBM that can reach Anywhere, USA ... Other stories = Musk builds world's largest battery ... Bitcoin tops $10,000 ...Microsoft will replace old HQ with new HQ

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 12/2/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

#EdTech Calendar  ... TECH Dozens 2016


Thursday, November 23, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving!!!


Have a HappThanksgiving!!! ...


... and a $$$ productive 
Black Friday $$$ ... :-)

Sunday, November 19, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/18/17

Last update: Sunday 11/19/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot does backflips ... Other stories = UNCF releases report on positive economic impact of HBCUs ... Tesla produces electric truck... Rev. Jesse Jackson has Parkinson's

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/18/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, November 12, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/11/17

Last update: Sunday 11/12/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = Waymo (Alphabet) removes human safety drivers from its driverless cars ... Other stories = Alphabet's Project Loon delivers Internet to 100,000 people in Puerto Rico ... Apple doges from Ireland to Jersey to avoid taxes ... FBI can't get into Texas shooter's iPhone

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/11/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, November 05, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/4/17

Last update: Sunday 11/5/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = Quarterly Reports from Apple and Facebook ... Other stories = Hidden void in Egypt's Great Pyramid ... Russian election propaganda on Facebook reached 126 million ... Execs from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify before Senate Judiciary Committee


The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/4/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, October 29, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/28/17

Last update: Sunday 10/29/17 @ 12:15 pm

This week's cover = Quarterly reports from Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft ... Other stories = RNA editor enables more precise edits of genomes ... Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world ... NAACP issues travel advisory for Black Americans against American Airlines





The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/28/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, October 22, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/21/17

Last update: Sunday 10/22/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = AlphaGo Zero teaches itself, in three days, to become the world's greatest Go player ever ... Other stories = Morehouse College selects new president ... Alphabet makes digital plans for Toronto ... Krack hack can attack anything on the Net

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/21/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, October 15, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/14/17

Last update: Sunday 10/15/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = Israeli spies caught Russian spies who used Kaspersky software ... Other stories = New/better IPEDS data for full time/part time first time/transfer students ... Nobel Prize in economics awarded to an American ... Google's balloons bring wireless service to Puerto Rico

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/14/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, October 08, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/7/17

Last update: Sunday 10/8/17 @ 12:30 pm
This week's cover = Nobel Prizes for 2017 in physics, chemistry, & medicine ... Other stories = Google's "Made by Google" event  ... Microsoft's mixed reality kickoff event ... Russians steal NSA data using Kaspersky software

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/7/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, October 01, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 9/30/17

Last update: Sunday 10/1/17 @ 12 :30 pm
This week's cover = Twitter  tells Congress that Russians posted divisive fake news in 2016 election and during recent national anthem controversy ... Other stories = Twitter doubles character limit to 280 ... Amazon's new Echo, Alexa, and Fire TV ... IKEA buys TaskRabbit

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 9/30/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Sunday, September 24, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 9/23/17

Last update: Sunday 9/24/17 @ 11:50 pm
This week's cover = Facebook will share Russian political ads with Congress ... Other stories = Trump appoints new Executive Director for White House Initiative on HBCUs ... Intel & Waymo (Alphabet/Google) form self-driving partnership ... Equifax confirms more failures 

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 9/23/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Monday, September 18, 2017

2017 National HBCU Conference -- Monday 9/18/17

Last update: Monday 9/18/17
Every year during HBCU Week the White House Initiative on HBCUs has sponsored a national HBCU conference in the Washington DC area. This year there was doubt right up until the week before the scheduled conference that it would actually occur. 


Sunday, September 17, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 9/16/17

Last update: Sunday 9/17/17 @ 2:30 pm


This week's cover = Cassini's grand finale on Saturn ... Other top stories = Apple's iPhone event -- September 2017... Equifax hacked because of failure to fix known bug... Comparing Apple vs. Samsung specs, prices, features





The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 9/16/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Thursday, September 14, 2017

DLL Editor's letter to friends and colleagues -- Thursday 9/14/17

Hi ___,

Thanks for this link. I will add it to the "Chuckles, Shame, and/or Fake News" section of the next edition of my blog newsletter ... :-)

Sunday, September 10, 2017

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 9/9/17

Last update: Sunday 9/10/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = Equifax data for 143 million customers hacked ... Other stories = Amazon will establish second headquarters ... Hundreds of electric systems hacked ... Tech leaders reject Trump's abolition of DACA



The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 9/9/17


A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles