Indefinite suspension of the TECH-Levers blog

Friday 5/8/20 

A little more than a year ago I posted an editor's note on this blog that promised to begin posting more secure, higher quality editions of TECH Dozens within two weeks. 

Improving the quality of the content TECH Dozens

Monday 1 April 2019

DLL Editor's note -- Two week's ago we suspended  the publication of TECH Dozens in order to address some persistent security issues. We suspended this week's edition in order to  formulate new search and sampling procedures that will make it easier for us to identify links to higher quality news content. We will launch more secure, higher quality editions of TECH Dozens next week ... :-)
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TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 3/23/19

Last update: Sunday 3/24/19 @ 6:30 pm

This week's cover = Mueller submits report ... Other top stories = Facebook compromises millions of passwords ... US, Saudi Arabia block UN development of geoengineering framework.

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 3/23/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 3/9/19

Last update: Sunday 3/10/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Zuckerberg proposes to pivot Facebook to private communications ... Other top stories = Admissions databases at Grinnell + two other colleges hacked ... TurnItIn acquired for $1.75 billion ... Democrats introduce bill to save net neutrality

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 3/9/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 3/2/19

Last update: Sunday 3/3/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = New York state & city leaders ask Bezos to reconsider cancelling HQ2 ... Other top stories = Pew Research survey finds 73% of Americans say race should not be a factor in college admissions ... Microsoft's augmented reality HoloLens 2 headset ... FTC creates anti-trust task force to monitor tech industry

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 3/2/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 2/23/19

Last update: Sunday 2/24/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Trump's Space Force will be a branch of U.S. Air Force ... Other top stories = Bennett College loses accreditation appeal despite raising almost $10 million ... Israel launches lunar lander via SpaceX ... Microsoft's employees want to cancel contract with U.S. Army for HoloLens headsets

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 2/23/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 2/16/19

Last update: Sunday 2/17/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Amazon abruptly cancels HQ2 in New York City ... Other top stories = Harvard admissions' case final, final, final presentations... Google will invest $13 billion in new U.S. data centers ... JP Morgan will offer its own crypto currency

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 2/1619 

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 2/9/19

Last update: Sunday 2/10/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Amazon reconsidering HQ2 in New York City ... Other top stories = Alphabet/Google quarterly report ... Germany sharply curtails Facebook's collection of user data ... Bezos blasts attempted blackmail by Enquirer

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 2/9/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 2/2/19

Last update: Sunday 2/3/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Quarterly reports  -- Amazon, Apple, Facebook, & Microsoft ... Other top stories = Apple breaks Facebook & Google apps that ignored its privacy rules ... Homeland Security's fake university

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 2/2/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 1/26/19

Last update: Sunday 1/27/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Amazon's facial recognition app marred by substantial gender and racial bias ... Other top stories = U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill facing pro-Asian American, anti-affirmative action admissions lawsuit ... Google fined $57 million by European Union for data privacy violations ... Oracle underpays foreign Asian techs

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 1/26/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 1/19/19

Last update: Sunday 1/20/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = 773 million email accounts have been hacked  ... Other top stories = George Mason University reports that fully online education widens achievement gaps ... Pell Grants should be awarded to prisoners

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 1/19/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

#EdTech Calendar ... TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 1/12/19

Last update: Sunday 1/13/19 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Oceans are warming much faster than previous predictions ... Other top stories = CES 2019, Best in show ... Impossible Burger 2.0, climate control via (delicious) plant based meat ... U.S. carbon emissions rose sharply in 2018

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 1/12/19

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

#EdTech Calendar ... TECH Dozens: 2018, 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens 2018

Last update: Monday 12/31/18 @ 6:30 pm

This year's cover = Climate change ... Other top stories = Russia's extensive use of social media to influence U.S. politics ... Facebook's astounding greed and incompetence ... Top universities launch undergraduate degree programs in data science/AI

DLL Editor's note -- This annual edition of TECH Dozens does not include the "best tweets" or the "most important tweets" of 2018 ... It merely includes my personal selections of a few dozen tweets that might make it easier to understand the tech-related events that will occur during 2019 ... :-)

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the year 2018

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

#EdTech Calendar ... TECH Dozens: 2017, 2016

Happy Holidays!!!

Seasons greetings and best wishes for the happiest holidays to all of our readers!!!!! ... TECH Dozens annual issue featuring the DLL Editor's choices for the most important tech-related stories of 2018 will be posted on 1/2/19

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 12/22/18

Last update: Sunday 12/23/18 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Russian hackers' efforts in 2016 election to aid Trump focused on Black Americans ... Other top stories = Google plans new $1 billion dollar campus in NYC, before Amazon arrives ... Drones disrupt London's Gatwick airport ... Chinese hack U.S. Navy

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 12/22/18

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

#EdTech Calendar ... TECH Dozens: 2017, 2016

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 12/15/18

Last update: Sunday 12/1618 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = Apple opens billion dollar campus in Austin, smaller new centers elsewhere ... Other top stories = Yet another big tech CEO -- Google's -- testifies before a House Committee ... Equifax security breach was preventable

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how leaders in Black higher education at HBCUs and other colleges and universities are promoting the skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in #EdTech and the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 12/15/18 

A. IBHE | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

#EdTech Calendar ... TECH Dozens: 2017, 2016

Anti-Asian American bias, affirmative action, and cheating at Harvard University

Last update: Sunday 12/9/18

Like other top-tier colleges and universities, Harvard has a high rejection rate. Many apply, but few are admitted. What would unscrupulous high school students do to get into Harvard? ... Would they falsify their applications??? ... Hold that thought.

All public policy decisions should be based on open source data

Last update: Saturday 12/8/18

DLL Editor's note: Basing public policy decisions on open source data is an old idea. It's been around for a long time, assuming different names from time to time. I am just the latest "visionary" to recognize its necessity.

Self-imposed limits on Asian American enrollments at highly selective U.S. colleges and universities

Last update: Monday 1/7/19

In the last decades of the twentieth century, conservatives challenged affirmative action in higher ed by asserting that the admission of Black students to the nation's selective colleges and universities was unrealistic and unfair. It was unrealistic because most Black students weren't smart enough to complete rigorous course loads in a timely manner. It was unfair because the admission of unqualified Black applicants could only be achieved by unfairly rejecting qualified White applicants.