Amazon will fund both introductory and Advanced Placement (AP) classes across all five NYC boroughs, including over 30 schools near its new headquarters, Long Island City, Queens.
The courses will be supported by the Amazon Future Engineer program, whose stated goal is to bring over 10 million kids to computer science per year, and fund computer science courses for over 100,000 underprivileged kids in 2,000 low-income high schools in the U.S. It also awards 100 students per year with four-year $10,000 scholarships and offers internships at Amazon.
Saudi Arabia’s and the United Arab Emirates’ (UAB) central banks have teamed up to test a new cryptocurrency.
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) and the United Arab Emirates Central Bank (UAECB) clarified that one of the objectives of launching the common digital currency project “Aber” is for use in financial settlements between Saudi Arabia and UAE through Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers technologie.
The G Suite certification stands out a bit because it’s cheaper ($75) and far less technical, but as Google notes, the overall idea here is to address the “cloud skills crisis.”
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