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This private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children Vista Equity Partners has been buying up software used in schools. Parents want to know what the companies do with kids’ data A Cautionary Tale: Elgin, Illinois Many of PowerSchool’s newer product lines, including its predictive analytics tools and personalized learning platform, require troves of student data to train the underlying algorithms. But experts who reviewed The Markup’s findings said that some of the data being used for those purposes is bound to lead to discriminatory outcomes....

This private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children Vista Equity Partners has been buying up software used in schools. Parents want to know what the companies do with kids’ data A Cautionary Tale: Elgin, Illinois Many of PowerSchool’s newer product lines, including its predictive analytics tools and personalized learning platform, require troves of student data to train the underlying algorithms. But experts who reviewed The Markup’s findings said that some of the data being used for those purposes is bound to lead to discriminatory outcomes....

This rare asteroid sample is unveiling some of the Solar System’s biggest secrets Tell us all your secrets weird little rock Fragile fragments All up, the sample weighs about 5 grams, split between the two touchdown sites that were sampled. The first sample came from Ryugu’s exposed surface. To get the second sample, the spacecraft fired a small disk at the asteroid to make a little crater, then collected a sample near the crater in the hope this second sample would contain material from below the surface, shielded from space weathering....

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