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Hundreds of hunters swarmed the Everglades to catch invasive pythons for cash

Hundreds of hunters have signed up for the Florida Python Challenge 2026, lured by a $10,000 grand prize and the chance to ...
Education Week

How to Stay Ahead of the AI Curve: Lessons From Two Very Different Districts

Some school districts are ahead of the curve. During a June 30 panel discussion at the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

Python Is So Slow. Can Julia Solve the Two-Language Problem?

By some benchmarks, Julia code can run 10X to 1,000X faster than Python—but there’s a reason it’s not a very popular ...
Hacker

Why Your Python Functions Are Secretly Changing Data You Never Passed to Them

Student focused on web development and programming. I write about debugging, coding challenges, and improving skills. Your function looks right. The logic checks out. You've traced it three times on ...
InfoWorld

First look: Mojo 1.0 mixes Python and Rust

Back in 2023, Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, and his team at Modular unveiled a new language called Mojo. Its syntax resembled Python, but it compiled to machine-native code and offered memory-safety ...
Interesting Engineering

World’s first BCI technology targets high-level brain function to restore independence

Brandon Patterson hasn’t moved his fingers in nine years due to a spinal cord injury. But recently, he felt them twitch. There was no physical movement, of course. Patterson, 41, has been paralyzed ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Aspire 13 Makes Python a First-Class Workload with .NET and JavaScript

Microsoft has added official Python support to Aspire 13, expanding the platform beyond .NET and JavaScript for building and running distributed apps. Documented today in a Microsoft DevBlogs post, ...
World Bank

Instruction Time and Student Learning: Can Cambodia Improve Learning Outcomes by Introducing Full-day Lesson Schedules in Primary Schools?

Key Finding 1 | The primary education curriculum time allocated to Khmer and Math is not the primary impediments to student learning in Cambodia. Cambodia’s total intended instruction time (i.e. the ...