Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month  —  European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company’s pitch […]

Making astronomy accessible to the blind

“But what does the Moon look like?” She had never seen Luna. We were building a workshop for blind students. With a striking lack of imagination, I offered, “Uh … kind of like a moldy ping pong ball.”   My colleague was gracious about the miss, but the question has bugged […]