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Though Monkey and the Elephant in Brewerytown is closed, foster youth are still relying on the program during the lockdown MICHAELA WINBERG / BILLY PENN
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Billy Penn

Can videoconferencing replace family visits? Philly foster kids seek comfort, support and housing amid pandemic

The coronavirus shutdown is creating challenges across the child welfare system, with no past practices to review for advice.

6 years ago

New public WiFi transmitters have been installed here at the Garfield Park Police Athletic League building and other facilities in New Castle County to provide free internet to residents who don't have access. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

Drive-in WiFi hotspots offer online access to Delaware’s disconnected

New Castle County is offering WiFi access outside a number of county facilities for people who don’t have an internet connection at home.

6 years ago

The Notebook is collecting online learning resources that teachers and parents may not know about. We plan to update the list as we become aware of more worthwhile resources – with your help. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)
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The Notebook

Online learning resources you may have missed

With your help, we plan to update the list as we become aware of additional worthwhile resources.

6 years ago

Apple's new COVID-19 app and website provides the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Apple)
NPR
Health

Apple’s new tool lets you screen yourself for COVID-19

Apple's new COVID-19 website and app allow users to screen themselves for coronavirus symptoms and receive recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

6 years ago

The Delaware Children's Museum is providing activities for children and their families via social media. (Courtesy of Elisa Morris)
Arts & Entertainment

Guide: Delaware museums offering virtual tours to entertain during quarantine

Museums in Delaware may be closed due to COVID-19, but museum lovers can still enjoy virtual tours to keep entertained when they’re stuck at home.

6 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
Education

Cyber charters in Pa. keep teaching amid confusion in coronavirus shutdown order

School districts in Pa. fear drastic damage to their budgets if parents decide en masse to move children to cyber options amid coronavirus uncertainty.

6 years ago

A Comcast van is pictured on a Philly street
Money
Broke in Philly

Comcast offers free WiFi, waives data cap and late fees, won’t disconnect service during coronavirus outbreak

With more people working and studying from home due to the coronavirus outbreak, Comcast is giving customers unlimited data for no additional charge.

6 years ago

(Pat Wellenbach/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Schools across Pa. are wary of offering online instruction during coronavirus closures

Some schools are running into a major legal hurdle in their attempts to offer online instruction during the current closures.

6 years ago

(TeroVesalainen/BigStock)
Education

Online-only college classes pose some distinct challenges for instructors

Teachers around the country had a short window to move to a different way of presenting course material. Internet access is just part of the struggle.

6 years ago

This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo.  (Reed Saxon/AP Photo, File)
Money

Amazon seeks to hire 100,000 to keep up with surge in orders

Amazon says it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online.

6 years ago

(Elise Amendola/AP Photo File)
Lifestyle

U.S. internet well-equipped to handle work from home surge

The U.S. internet won’t get overloaded by spikes in traffic from the millions of Americans now working from home to discourage the spread of the new coronavirus, experts say.

6 years ago

Dr. Allison Kolpas, a professor in the math department at West Chester University, opens her DNA testing packet. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Science

N.J. lawmaker wants to make DNA test results your personal property

The proposal is a bid to give consumers who use popular genetic testing services more control over their personal data.

6 years ago

Twitter says it's deploying new policies that the social network hopes keep pace with the state of influence operations and disinformation today. (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Twitter vows that as disinformation tactics change, its policies will keep pace

Twitter's new policy attempts to flag and provide greater context for content that the platform believes to have been "significantly and deceptively altered or fabricated."

7 years ago

The set up on Stone Mountain consists of a radio tower, solar panels and an equipment room and is key to how the Rural Broadband Cooperative is delivering broadband internet to its users. (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Lifestyle

This rag-tag group of DIYers has an answer for rural Pa.’s internet problem

Companies have long complained that providing service to rural areas is a money-losing business. This is a cheaper alternative.

7 years ago

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FILE-In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 photo, Willie Mays, right, looks on as President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film “Hidden Figures,” died Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Community

Pioneering black mathematician Katherine Johnson has died

NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures" has died.

7 years ago

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