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By: Todd Feathers Over the past six years, a little-known private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, has built an educational software empire that wields unseen influence over the educational journeys of tens of millions of children. Along the way, The Markup found, the companies the firm controls have scooped up a massive amount of very personal data on kids, which they use to fuel a suite of predictive analytics products that push the boundaries of technology’s role in education and, in some cases, raise discrimination concerns....

TLDR:This amazingly precise robotic arm is a perfect tool for up-and-coming engineers, designed to teach the principles of manufacturing robotics right from your desktop. Let’s get something out of the way quickly here. While there are any number of both fun and educational tinkerer sets to choose from out there, most are fundamentally toys. Oh sure, the lessons they offer and some of the functions they serve are certainly real enough, but at the end of the day, they’re mostly just enjoyable side diversions into the world of basic engineering....

The news officiallycame down in June— ICANN, the governing body of Internet domain names, would soon begin allowing anyone to buy words and turn them into top level domain extensions. No longer would we be bound to .com, .net and the like but instead we could have a site such as TheNextWeb.tech. Of course it didn’t take long for savvy web entrepreneurs to start coming up with ideas on how best to use the new open-ended TLD system....

TLDR:The Learn Python and Django Developer Bundle trains coders in Python basics to create amazing web development experiences you couldn’t create any other way. Google and Netflix. Facebook and Instagram. Spotify and Reddit. Those are just a handful of the tech titans thatuse the Python coding languageas an integral part of their web development process. Python is powerful, yet complex — and because of its abilities, programmers familiar with all the intricacies of Python coding as well as its most useful tools arein high demandwith the elite firms of the digital world....

TLDR:The Ninja Dragon Vortex 9 RC Quadcopter Drone is highly portable, is packed with flight features and includes a 4K camera for absolutely brilliant aerial images and video. Whether they’re delivering everything from medication to insoles, whether they’re mapping for construction, capturing video for filmmakers, or just letting a pilot get their thrill on, drones are filling our skies. As of January, there werenearly 1.8 million drone crafts registered with the U....