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The world is getting warmer. Humans have a lot to do with this. As things heat up it puts a strain on animals and habitats. Students across the world skipped school and went on strike in a fight against climate change. Inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, environmentally conscious students are calling for the government to take action on global warming. Greta Thunberg began a solo climate protest by striking from school in Sweden in August 2018. More than 20,000 students around the world have now joined her since. The school strikes have spread to at least 270 towns and cities in Read more
Emma Haruka Iwao, who works at Google, used Google Cloud computing to calculate 31.4 trillion digits of pi. This is the first time some used publicly available cloud software for an enormous pi calculation. Peter Trueb set the previous world record in 2016, calculating the digits of pi to 22.4 trillion digits. Emma loved pi at school. What’s more, one of her professors in university, Daisuke Takahashi, held the record for the most-calculated digits of pi using a supercomputer. “You need a pretty big computer to break the world record,” says Iwao. “But you can’t just do this with a Read more
