Sara Thacher’s nephew was excited to help the First Order. During a test voyage of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser earlier this year, the 11 year old Star Wars fan set out to side with the antagonists, due in part to their cool costume appeal. Then he met some of the heroes of the Resistance. “And […]
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“It’s Pure Magic”: Celebrating John Williams and His Music
Star Wars, and many of the movies we love, would not be the same without John Williams. With a body of work that includes the scores for the nine-film Star Wars saga, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park, to name but a few, Williams’ compositions are embedded in our […]
Crunch data better than ever with Excel and Power BI
This nine-course bundle aims to give you an advanced Excel education so you can extract data with the best of them and use companions like Power BI to draw powerful business insights.
From the Pages of Star Wars Insider: Educating Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth – Exclusive Excerpt
Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth is the role actor, filmmaker, stuntwoman, and martial artist Diana Lee Inosanto was seemingly born to play. In the second season of The Mandalorian, Inosanto introduced the world to the coldhearted leader of Calodan, going toe-to-toe with a former Jedi in search of the secret information she possessed. It was the first […]
Windows 11 SE: Why it’s both more and less locked down than Windows 10 S
Managing computers for education is complicated, but Microsoft thinks it has a solution.
What’s new for IT pros in the next Windows 10 update
The first update to Windows 10 since the arrival of Windows 11 makes it clear that Windows 10 will fall behind.
Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops
Stockholm’s official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal.
Blind People Have Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM—for Now
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it’s far past time to make it permanent.
The Best Assistive Technology for Dyslexics
Whether you’re grappling with homework or just trying to get things done, these tools will help your tech adapt to you—instead of the other way around.
Missouri Threatens to Sue a Reporter Over a Security Flaw
The governor warned that he would take legal action against a journalist who identified a vulnerability that exposed teachers’ Social Security numbers.