Technology of the Week
This technology teaches computers to spot patterns and make decisions—like recommending your next YouTube video—without being explicitly programmed.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Need a whole website from a single text prompt? This tool—made by the company famous for hosting Next.js apps—spins up fully coded pages in seconds.
What is V0?
Term for a huge embarrassment.
What is Big Yikes?
This education program is where students ages 10-13 explore how technology is shaping the world while building a portfolio of projects
Who is Inertia Academy?
He’s an Italian plumber who leaps on Goombas and rescues Princess Peach in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Who is Mario?
With this mind-blowing tech, tiny sensors translate your brain’s electrical signals so you can move a cursor or robot arm by simply thinking about it.
What is Brain Computer Interface?
Introduced by OpenAI, this chat-based assistant can draft stories, explain homework, and brainstorm ideas just by talking with you.
What is ChatGPT?
Means "truth" or "I'm not lying."
What is "No Cap"?
Nicknamed the “information superhighway,” this worldwide network lets you email friends, stream videos, and play online games.
What is the Internet?
In this block-building game, Creepers sneak up on you and everything looks like cubes.
What is Minecraft?
Skip the farm! This method grows real meat, milk, or eggs from animal cells in a lab, using far less land and water.
What is Cellular Agriculture?
Part search engine, part AI sidekick, this service answers your questions with instant summaries and clickable source citations—its name means a tricky riddle.
What is Perplexity?
Yes
What is Bet?
This large, green lizard from Central and South America can grow over five feet long and loves basking in treetop sunshine.
What is an Iguana?
Explore Hyrule, solve dungeons, and wield the Master Sword to help a princess in this long-running Nintendo series.
What is The Legend of Zelda?
Using tools such as CRISPR to add, remove, or tweak DNA, this field can create drought-tolerant crops or correct disease-causing genes.
What is genetic engineering?
Coding with friends online is a snap in this browser-based IDE where projects run instantly—no downloads needed.
What is Replit?
You say this when something seems fishy....
What is "Sus"?
According to Newton’s first law of motion, an object resists changes to its motion because of this property.
What is Inertia?
Drop from a Battle Bus, build forts, and aim for a “Victory Royale” in this colorful battle-royale sensation.
What is Fortnite?
Thanks to lidar, cameras, and smart algorithms, this technology lets a car steer, brake, and change lanes all on its own.
What is self driving cars?
Researchers love this AI tool that combs scholarly papers to give evidence-backed answers; its name is another word for “scientific agreement.”
What is Consensus AI?
Very Good!
What is "Bussin"?
Spiders, jellyfish, and worms all belong to this vast group of animals that have no backbone.
What is an Invertebrate?
Beneath the orange Power Suit is this intergalactic bounty hunter who battles Space Pirates and Metroids—one of gaming’s very first female heroes. (Also a Super Smash Bros character)
Who is Samus Aran?