In the age of social media and constant connectivity, parents are often worried
Managing your children’s screen time and online activities. with teenagers and pre-teens
Becoming increasingly tech-savvy, they sometimes find clever ways to bypass smartphones
Sharing restrictions, tips and tricks on platforms like TikTok.
From hiding apps on the home screen to hiding them to avoid parental monitoring, the digital cat-and-mouse game continues.
Many parents rely on tools like Screen Time on iPhone to set limits on app usage. For
For example, if parents decide that one hour of Snapchat is enough a day, they can enforce
Limit screen time through settings. Once the allotted time expires, the app locks
Unless the parent enters the passcode to allow more time. This feature can be implemented on any app,
Providing a level of control over how much time children spend on specific applications.
However, there is an important oversight that comes with web-based access to popular apps like TikTok.
YouTube, or Instagram. While parents can set time limits for these websites, these restrictions
Do not apply this when children use incognito or private browsing mode. In these modes, the user
Can visit websites without the time counting into the screen time limit. this flaw
This means that, despite parental controls, kids can spend unrestricted time on these sites.
Without leaving any trace in their browsing history.
For parents facing difficulties visiting certain websites with their children, more stringent
Solutions are available. Within Screen Time settings, parents can tap Content
Create a passcode to allow privacy restrictions and changes. Then, by selecting the content
Restrictions, they can block explicit content and set age-appropriate limits. To restrict more
web content, parents can block adult websites or even specify which websites are allowed,
Blocking access to anyone else—even in incognito mode.
Despite these options, some limitations remain. For example, it is not possible to block secretly
Or directly private mode on iPhones. Android devices offer more flexibility in this regard,
Especially if the child’s phone is monitored with Family Link.
Parents can also turn to third-party apps that monitor a child’s phone usage and block access to it
Some apps and websites. These services typically come with a monthly fee of around $15.
Another method gaining popularity is the use of flip phones for young children. in
Devices readily available from cellular providers are cost-effective and limit functionality to calls
And text. This option ensures that parents can stay in touch with their children and provide them
With a means of communication in case of emergency, without any distraction and risk
With smartphone.
Dealing with the complexities of digital parenting requires a combination of using built-in features, understanding the limitations of these tools, considering third-party solutions, and sometimes choosing simpler technology. As the digital landscape evolves, parents must adopt strategies to ensure their children’s online safety and well-being.
On the sensitive Chesapeake Bay Coast, we frequently face the dangers of severe storms, flooding, hurricane impacts, and the occasional ice storm, watershed or tornado. So it’s reassuring to know that Maryland’s final two counties have just received StormReady certification from the National Weather Service. Caroline and Kent counties on the East Coast are now officially “StormReady” and Maryland is now the eighth state with all local jurisdictions holding the designation.
Maryland’s preparedness for extreme conditions is largely due to a new program placing advanced weather towers throughout the state. The most recent weather data collection station, known as a Mesonet Tower, was built in Caroline County near Ridgley Elementary School. It is the farthest mesonet tower installed in Maryland. There are also towers in Easton in Talbot County and Wye Mills in Queen Anne’s County.
Chesapeake Bay Magazine showed you first The state’s maisonette tower program began last November, when the first tower was built. There are 70 planned towers being built over a period of about a year, of which 10 have been completed so far. The program is a partnership between the Maryland Department of Emergency Management (MDEM) and the University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
Mesonet towers are cheap enough to build together around the state and measure air temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, precipitation, snow depth, and soil moisture and temperature at five depths. Can, at most one. -minute interval.
The data will be particularly valuable to sailors seeking marine forecasts or those who live, work and play on the water. Mesonet towers will better predict weather events in communities vulnerable to climate change and sea level rise. You can check measurements in almost real time Mesonet website,
Masonite towers help Maryland meet StormReady designation requirements. To qualify, communities must have an impressive list of steps. They must “set up a 24-hour warning point and emergency operation centre; Have more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts to alert the public; Create a system that monitors weather conditions at the local level; promoting the importance of public preparedness through community seminars; and develop a formal hazardous weather plan, including training severe weather observers and conducting emergency drills.
MDEM and National Weather Service leaders say the expanded network of Mesonet towers will keep Marylanders safe from natural hazards.
“As a native Marylander, I’m pleased that Maryland is one of the first StormReady states in the nation,” said James E. Lee, meteorologist in charge of the Baltimore-Washington Forecast Office. “It speaks to the dedication of the partnership between all of Maryland’s local jurisdictions, the Maryland Department of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service with the shared goal of keeping Marylanders safe from the types of weather hazards we may experience.”
Other states achieving total StormReady participation are Delaware, Pennsylvania, Florida, Hawaii, North Dakota, Rhode Island and South Carolina.
A TIC Toc The user reprimanded California Tech workers invaded his city, causing prices to rise and the supply of houses to decrease.
In a clip that has been viewed more than half a million times, Austin native Dani scolded people who ran away texas More bought cheap homes during the pandemic, which they later demolished, turned into expensive Airbnbs or flipped for profit.
He placed much of the blame on those who fled the Golden State after being tempted by the lowly the cost of living and lack of state income tax.
‘They’re trying to sell homes at wildly, extremely inflated prices, and it’s not going to work,’ Dani said.
He lamented that the housing market was ‘ripe’.
Austin native Dani slammed California tech workers for ‘cooking’ the housing market in her home city. He blamed it on people who fled to Texas during the pandemic and bought cheap homes to rent out as Airbnb or turn a profit.
Last June, Austin rents were among the most expensive in the country (Pictured: An Airbnb listed for $3,942 per night in May 2024)
Dani said many newcomers are leaving without much return on their accommodation investments amid widespread tech layoffs (Pictured: An Airbnb listed for $3,920 per night in May 2024)
According to LinkedIn user data, Austin had the highest net inflow of tech workers of any major city in the United States from May 2020 to April 2021.
And while there is debate over whether there was a significant ‘exodus’ of Californians to Texas – University of California studies determine otherwise – San Francisco saw a sharp increase in people leaving.
The California Policy Lab’s March 2021 policy brief concluded that departures from the city in the second to fourth quarters of 2020 were 31 percent higher than the same period in 2019.
And U.S. Census Bureau data shows California is set to lose 75,423 residents in 2023, following a steady pattern that began during the pandemic.
There is some substance to Dani’s claim about Airbnb’s skyrocketing prices. Last June, Austin rents were among the most expensive in the country.
A study by ChamberofCommerce.org found that the average daily rental rate across properties of all sizes in the city is $373. The average rent for a one-bedroom property in Austin is $127 per night, while the average rent for a two-bedroom property is $203.
In her viral TikTok, Dani also pointed out that residents, including those who moved in during the pandemic, are now leaving the city amid a turbulent tech job market.
‘We have a lot of tech layoffs happening here – the economy of this city is based on tech, so a lot of people are moving away,’ he said.
Tech companies have historically maintained a foothold in the Texas capital (Picture: The original Apple campus at 5501 West Parmer Lane in Austin)
Tesla opened its ‘Giga Texas’ factory in the east of the city in April 2022, but now plans to lay off 2,688 workers from June.
Austin has long been revered as a pioneer of innovation With the emergence of IBM and Texas Instruments in the 1960s. It is the birthplace of Dell, which went on to become one of the largest computer manufacturers.
Despite being concentrated in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, tech giants also maintain a foothold in the Texas state capital.
Google leased Block 185, a sail-shaped skyscraper on the banks of the Colorado River, in 2019. The company was supposed to relocate sometime this year, but the timeline is in limbo amid widespread layoffs.
Meanwhile, Apple shows no signs of slowing down after quietly leasing an entire office building in the Westlake neighborhood. This followed a $240 million investment in its North Austin campus, which is scheduled to open in March next year.
Automaker Tesla to open its ‘Giga Texas’ factory east of Austin in April 2022, but Now there is a plan to fire 2,688 employees Starting from June.
Companies including Apple and Tesla were offered a package of millions of dollars in property and payroll tax reimbursements as incentives from the city. However, this may not be enough to make them stop.
after Relocating your corporate headquarters From the Bay Area to Austin, business software and services company Oracle plans to move out.
As tech companies are leaving the city, so are their employees — and few are seeing much return on their housing investment.
Home prices in the city rose 60 percent from 2020 to 2022, and despite seeing an 11 percent decline in 2024, prices remain near record-high levels.
The initial influx of newcomers during the pandemic also boosted apartment construction. This has increased so much that rental rates in Austin have decreased by 7.4 percent since last year.
Dani explained that these conditions make selling a property even more difficult, as many people would rather rent an apartment than spend more to buy or lease a home.
‘This is what you get for trying to take advantage of people who are just trying to shop in their town or their state, where they’ve lived their whole lives,’ he declared.
MOUNT JACKSON, Virginia (WHSV) – Triplett Tech held a signing day for students who are going straight into their trades after high school. For students, this is a big step as they make their way into the workforce.
“The business has come a long way,” said Todd Lynn, principal at Triplett Tech. “The pendulum is swinging back, they’re taking full advantage of it, and after two years of hard work and dedication that’s what happens, we end up.” “We are having 26 students sign up to enter the workforce or continue their education and it’s a special day.”
Trades students are graduating in include auto tech, cosmetology and culinary arts.
“It’s all coming with a shock, I really didn’t think I would graduate already, but I am,” said Trey Heshman, a student at Triplett Tech. “It’s just the dedication to this program and this school and It’s hard work. , After graduation I will do whatever I want.
Lynn says that although this was his biggest signing day, he hopes it will be even bigger next year.
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Lubbock, Texas (News release) – Texas Tech on Tuesday announced its theme schedule for the 2024 football season, which will include the annual Farm Game as well as a new initiative in the Raider Power Game.
Texas Tech begins a seven-game home slate against Abilene Christian on August 31, with the game theme schedule beginning with an agricultural game against North Texas two weeks later. Below are full details of Texas Tech’s various game themes this season.
September 14 vs. North Texas – Farm Game: The Ag Game promotion is part of a partnership between the athletics department and the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and National Resources to highlight key crops, livestock and technologies for Texas Tech and the South Plains. Those honored throughout the Games will include representatives from leading judging teams at the national level, from agriculture industry to universities.
September 21 vs. Arizona State – Raider Power Game: Like its popular chant, Texas Tech Jones will split AT&T Stadium in half, encouraging the west side to wear black and the east side to wear red. A full map of the stadium can be found Here, Texas Tech will also recognize its energy partners who help power the world throughout the game.
Sept. 28 vs. Cincinnati – Parents & Families Weekend: Texas Tech will host its annual Parents and Family Weekend promotion for Cincinnati’s first visit to Lubbock as a Big 12 member and the first meeting between the two schools since 1968.
October 19 vs. Baylor – Homecoming and Red Raider Club Appreciation Day: The Bears will serve as Texas Tech’s homecoming rival this season as alumni from around the world return to Lubbock for a weekend of festivities. The full list of homecoming events will be announced in the weeks leading up to the games.
November 9 vs. Colorado – Hall of Fame Weekend and Celebrate America Game: Texas Tech will continue its long-standing tradition of honoring the brave heroes who fought for our country with its Celebrate America game. Texas Tech will recognize each branch of the military and its campus military and veterans programs throughout the game. It will also be Texas Tech’s Hall of Fame weekend where the Class of 2024 will be honored at halftime. The class of 2024 for the Texas Tech Hall of Fame will be announced later this summer.
November 30 vs. West Virginia – Senior Day: Texas Tech will honor its senior class before kickoff with an on-field ceremony featuring head coach Joey McGuire and the families of each Red Raider senior.
In addition to the Raider Power game, any additional fan color schemes will be announced in the weeks prior to each contest. Additionally, game times and television designations for Texas Tech’s entire non-conference slate are expected to be unveiled by the Big 12 conference office later this month. All remaining conference game times will fall within either the 12-day or six-day television window.
Texas Tech announced earlier last week that it has sold out of its season ticket allotment for the 2024 campaign. Single-game tickets for each of Texas Tech’s seven home contests will go on sale exclusively to Red Raider Club members beginning at 8:30 a.m. on May 20 and then at the same time to the general public on May 29. Will happen.
A full schedule of on-sale dates for Red Raider Club members can be found Online But TexasTech.com
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McLean, Virginia, May 7, 2024 — miter is building a new capability that aims to give its artificial intelligence (AI) researchers and developers access to a huge increase in computing power. The new capability, the MITER Federal AI Sandbox, will provide better access to next-generation AI-enabled applications for the federal government.
The federal AI sandbox is expected to be operational by the end of the year and will be operated by a nvidia dgx superpod Which enables rapid infrastructure scale and performance for AI enterprise work and machine learning. As US government agencies seek to implement AI in their operations, few have sufficient access to supercomputers and the deep expertise needed to pilot the technology and test potential applications on secure infrastructure.
“Recent executive Order “Federal agencies on AI are encouraged to lower barriers to AI adoption, but agencies often lack the computing environments needed for experimentation and prototyping,” said Charles Clancy, MITRE, senior vice president and chief technology officer. They say. “Our new Federal AI Sandbox will help level the playing field, making the high-quality compute power needed to train and test custom AI solutions available to any agency.”
MITER will apply the Federal AI Sandbox to its work for federal agencies in areas including national security, health care, transportation, and climate. Agencies can access the benefits of the Federal AI Sandbox through existing contracts with any of the six Federally funded research and development centers MITER operates.
Sandbox capabilities provide computing power to train cutting-edge AI applications for government use, including large language models (LLM) and other generative AI tools. It can also be used to train multimodal perception systems that can understand and process information from many types of data, such as images, audio, text, radar, and environmental or medical sensors, and reinforcement learning decision aids that Learn from trial and error to help humans make better decisions.
“MITRE’s purchase of DGX SuperPOD to assist the federal government in developing AI initiatives will advance the U.S. federal government’s efforts to leverage the power of AI,” says Anthony Robbins, vice president of public sector at NVIDIA. “AI has immense potential to improve government services for citizens and solve big challenges like transportation and cybersecurity.”
The NVIDIA DGX SuperPod powering the sandbox is capable of exaFLOPS of performance to train and deploy custom LLMs and other AI solutions at scale.
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miterMission-driven teams dedicated to solving problems for a safer world. Through our public-private partnerships and federally funded R&D centers, we work in partnership with government and industry to address challenges to our nation’s security, stability, and well-being.
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