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Twitter announced several upcoming changes to the format of the Tweet and how tweets will be treated in the future. The goal is to open up more characters to be used in the tweet itself. Replies When you reply to a tweet, the @USERNAMEs will not count as characters in the tweet. The limit will…
The Google Cast for education app is now available. To try it out, teachers need to install the Google Cast for Education app, and the students need to install the Google Cast extension. There are three caveats right now: The Chromebooks must be in the Beta channel, running ChromeOS 52 or newer. This won’t be the…
The Raspberry foundation released their newest model of the Raspberry Pi, the Raspberry Pi 3. It is faster than the 2 it replaces, and adds wifi and bluetooth, all for the same $35. The addition of wifi is a big deal. No longer will you have to use one of the USB ports for a…
Businesses are using Asana and G Suite to collaborate and manage projects from start to finish. Asana is a project management tool that helps teams plan, manage and track work, and is a part of the Recommended for G Suite program. Source: Track projects with G Suite and Asana When I was checking out project management solutions, Asana was…
The speed at which Pokemon Go has spread is unprecedented. Less than a week after launch, this augmented reality mobile exploration game has been installed on twice as many phones as Tinder, it has double the engagement of Snapchat, and it is eclipsing Twitter in its percentage of daily active users. People are spending so…
Are you a senior graduating this spring? Or a teacher switching districts? Or do you sleep better at night knowing you have a backup copy of your data? Then Google has you covered. Google offers a way to download all of your information stored at Google through Google Takeout, which is available at https://google.com/takeout. Once you…