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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft talks about reopening the United States and how to get the schools going. The billionaire also gives his thoughts on the economy opening up via CNN with Fareed Zakaria. Gates gives an estimation on when we will know more on schools opening and how we will go about opening […]
Xerox Holdings Corporation has good news for Rochester residents and workers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic: Xerox has partnered with Vortran Medical Technology to mass-produce Vortran’s FDA-approved Airway Pressure Monitor (APM-Plus) and disposable GO2Vent ventilator at its Rochester facility. Vortran has struggled in recent weeks to meet production demands for these devices at […]
The Better Business Bureau has revealed that hackers can use social media posts about graduating from high school or other academic institutions to gain access to people’s various online accounts. Schools throughout the country have closed to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2, resulting in many students who were supposed to graduate this year posting their […]
Former NBA player and Clark Atlanta University men’s basketball head coach, George Lynch, and entrepreneur Tracey Pennywell have announced their plans to donate at least 6,000 computers to Historically Black College and University (HBCU) student athletes via a new non-profit that they formed called HBCU Heroes. “Many HBCU student-athletes were using school resources, such as […]
As the weather changes becoming warmer we still have to continue to practice social distancing while we are out. That means we should not be congregating at parks. Earlier this week it was announced in Monroe County we are slipping when it comes to social distancing and staying home. Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said […]
There is a company that is tracking how well we are doing with the stay at home orders across the state and country. The company called Unacast tracks human mobility data. In other words they use GPS location from our smartphones and other devices. The social distancing scorecard grades are A-F. It goes off of […]
Right now this is the time to be playing games. To be honest that’s about all you can do. But what if that was taken away from you too? Microsoft’s Xbox Live service was down over the weekend. This is no time for shut downs, with the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Schools have […]
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Facebook and Twitter both revealed that they had shut down accounts connected to Russian parties that were using the platforms to interfere with elections by targeting black social media users with fake news and divisive messages. Posts, pages, and tweets were typically about civil rights and race topics, but also […]
Among more than 10,000 national nominees, Clayton Turner received the 2020 Black Engineer of the Year award, presented to him in Washington, D.C. This award, representing achievement in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), honors Turner’s accomplishments at NASA. After he graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 1990, Turner started […]
We have to give a shout out to a RIT alum who was named black engineer of the year. Clayton Turner graduated from RIT back in 1990 he’s a NASA Director for the research center. Turner received the honor at BEYA STEM Global Competitive Conference earlier this month. The conference is to connect students, educators, […]
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