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STEM / STEAM: 2023 Weather Summary for Northern California
Meteorologist Adam Epstein is the Chief Meterologist at Sacramento’s FOX40 news station, KTXL. For the second year in a row, Adam has given us permission to post his year end weather summary for Northern California. Thank you, Adam! 2023, to me, was very wet and snowy in the winter, cooler further into the summer than usual, and…
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STEM / STEAM: Using Google BARD Artificial Intelligence to Write a Short Story
In 2024, ForCarol.org will “embrace” the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our college scholarship applications. The requirements for using AI in their submissions are that the students must tell us: 1. What AI apps they used, 2. how they used them (to write, draw, etc) and what prompts they gave to the AI’s to…
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STEM / STEAM: Artificial Intelligence by Adobe Firefly and Google Gemini
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STEM / STEAM: 2022 Weather Summary for Northern California
Meteorologist Adam Epstein is the morning weather person at Sacramento’s FOX40 news station, KTXL. This morning (yeah, I am a morning person) I saw Adam’s weather summary for 2022 and decided to ask him if I could post the Youtube version here…… He said yes! 2022 sure was a weird weather year here in Northern…
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STEM / STEAM: Artemis Lifts Off for a Spin Around the Moon
This morning, the largest most powerful NASA rocket ever finally lifted off for it’s initial trip around the moon. Go here to read all about the Artemis program. And here. Here is a short clip from the Artemis web site: “Artemis is the first step in the next era of human exploration. Together with commercial and…
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STEM / STEAM: Testing YouTubeTV
UPDATE March 2025: My fifth and final test of YouTube TV is here: https://techymike.com/2025/03/06/youtube-tv-test-5-and-final-decision/ The result is…….drum roll……….YouTube TV is now our TV provider and we have a 500 Mbps Internet connection to Xfinity. I had previously tested YouTubeTV a couple of times…..hit the links below to learn more. The first time (when we still…
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STEM / STEAM: James Webb Space Telescope Pictures and STEM Toolkit
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STEM / STEAM: Turn Your Old Computer into a Chromebook
Originally posted on TechyMike.com Lets see how well, if at all, Chrome OS Flex works on a very old computer! Lori’s old Toshiba laptop was the greatest thing since the invention of the integrated circuit at the time we purchased it. Now it is a POS. Well, the hardware rocks, but, the Windows software sucks,…
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STEM / STEAM: Sony A8G 4k TV Randomly Losing WiFi Connection
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