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A new ransomware epidemic, dubbed “Bad Rabbit,” is spreading at an unprecedented rate thanks to its use of “Eternalromance,” an open source Python version of the NSA’s Eternalsynergy tool, which was also dumped by the Shadow Brokers.

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/26/nobus-meets-reality.html…

When you begin to see Facebook as a potential education tool, you will discover several ways to integrate this platform into your classroom. To help you begin, let’s look at ten ways to use Facebook in the classroom.

http://www.theedadvocate.org/10-ways-use-facebook-classroom/…

Adobe says that it has no interest in building a general artificial intelligence platform — instead, it wants to build a platform squarely focused on helping its customers be more creative.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/adobe-says-it-wants-ai-to-amplify-human-creativity-and-intelligence/…

You have been invited to a meeting that would last really long. You cannot say “no” but secretly wish that someone calls your phone in the middle of that never-ending meeting and rescue you from the boring situation. Well, you …

The digitized notebooks debuted in 2007 as a joint project of the British Library and Microsoft called “Turning the Pages 2.0,” an interactive feature that allows viewers to “turn” the pages of the notebooks with animations. Onscreen glosses explain the …

Jake Orlowitz makes the important point that crowdsourcing isn’t simply about assembling a crowd. A number of things need to be in place before the crowd can work effectively, and he lists a bunch of them: the crowd has to …

A survey of online learning and distance education in Canadian public post-secondary education.

https://onlinelearningsurveycanada.ca/…

While previous versions of AlphaGo initially trained on thousands of human amateur and professional games to learn how to play Go, AlphaGo Zero skips this step. It learns to play from scratch, simply by playing games against itself, starting from …

Android? Nope. Chrome OS? Nah. Google’s new focus is firmly on itself as an ecosystem — and that is one monumental change.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3233300/mobile-wireless/google-ecosystem.html…

After a few years of sticking with essentially the same design, Google Calendar on the web is getting a makeover. That means a fresh new color palette and a design in line with Google’s Material Design scheme, but also — …

The vast majority of U.S. families now have a mobile device, like a smartphone or tablet, and young children are spending more time using their devices than ever before, according to a new study from Common Sense Media.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2017/10/common_sense_birth_to_eight_2017.html

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Helping prepare kids for the workforce can be done with a few simple classroom changes. How do teachers identify the trends, predict what students will need and prepare them for it— all while the target is continually moving? Thankfully, we …