If your kids are going to be at home for awhile, or you’re planning on homeschooling them, it’s important to have plenty of options for keeping them entertained. Right now, ABC Mouse is offering a 30-day free trial with a one-year subscription also available at the low price of $60 (down from $120).
Aimed at children between age 2 and 8, ABC Mouse provides fun ways to learn all kinds of different educational subjects. In all, there are over 850 different lessons with more than 9,000 individual learning activities included. ABC Mouse has a specific curriculum so kids can follow the step-by-step learning path, enabling them to learn at a steady speed that’s both enjoyable and productive.
Subjects include things like the Reading curriculum, which teaches phonics, rhyming words, word families, letter recognition, sentence structure, and how the parts of speech work. In all, it includes more than 450 books aimed at various ages.
The Math curriculum helps the youngest players to recognize and count numbers up to 20, before building on that with the base ten system, addition and subtraction, along with how to measure length, time, and money.
For science fans, the Science and Social Studies curriculum looks at the human body, health, plants, animals, weather, climate, as well as the solar system. It also checks out the different regions of the United States, the Earth’s environments, and maps.
The Arts and Colors curriculum takes a look at primary and secondary colors, and shades of colors, all while providing numerous paint-by-number activities, and number and letter dot-to-dots.
It’s all as fun as it sounds for your children with plenty of games and songs, as well as printable activities for when you want to step away from screen time.
Now is a great time to try out ABC Mouse thanks to its 30-day free trial. Investing in a one-year subscription is simple, too, as it’s only $60 for the whole year, working out as only $5 per month. For your under 8s, that’s a low price to pay for plenty of fun and educational resources.
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AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.
The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.
Military working dogs charge into places the rest of us would flee. So, I understand why anyone would want to breed tougher, healthier dogs for the job.
Warhound, a new startup from Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, has stepped out of stealth with $200 million to clone and gene-edit working dogs for American troops, police departments, and emergency services (via TechCrunch).
AI can describe a picture, identify objects, and answer questions about what a camera sees. But when a blind user needs a quick answer, getting an entire spoken essay about the scene isn't exactly helpful. Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have found that AI-powered visual assistance can leave blind users doing too much work to get the information they actually need.
The study, titled Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users, examined how people interact with Be My AI, an AI-powered feature of the Be My Eyes app. The researchers found that users often received lengthy descriptions that didn't adequately address their immediate goals, forcing them to ask follow-up questions or find ways to steer the AI towards a more useful answer.