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TFE Tech Check

Tech For Everyone

Bi-weekly tech news updates curated young children across programming, AI, cyber security, game development and other tech domains

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59 episodes

  1. Grade K-2: 110 robots danced together and set a world record, the house hippo is back, Minecraft's sunshine and shadows on Switch 2, and three kids who kept going when their robot code vanished! 6:23
  2. Grade 3-5: NY bans friendly kid-chatbots, a teen robot champ teaches Scratch, a fake Paris river photo, paperclip flying robots, and what ransomware is! 7:56
  3. Grade 6-8: Teachers rewrite homework for the AI age, a junior's AI agent books cleaning jobs, 232 teen-made games in 72 hours, Roblox's age checks, and school Microsoft logins move to passkeys. 8:41
  4. Grade 9-12: NYC students petition to bar high school AI, Ofcom’s 4 age checks, an MIT intestine robot, Node.js 26 enters LTS, and a national HS esports championship. 9:06
  5. Grade 3-5: Four AI teammates beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon, a student robot solves a cube in 9.8 seconds, Canada's kids' privacy rules, a deepfake-scam warning, and 7 billion passkeys! 8:16
  6. Grade 6-8: A district pauses every student AI tool but one, a shared robot workshop, AI helps find decade-old PHP bugs, the Pink Panther protest fakes, and Godot 4.8 enters beta. 8:11
  7. Grade 9-12: OpenAI coding agents cut safety checks, CA student records exposed via single login, Norway's under-16 plan, teens' STUDENTS FIRST Act, and a 9.8s cube-solving robot. 9:03
  8. Grades K-2: Kids build robots to help the planet, a computer nose sends a smell far away, thumb-wrestling in a video game, and how to be a smart searcher! 6:03
  9. 6th - 8th: A district bans student AI weeks after a Gemini pilot, Minecraft's code-to-the-flag race, a hijacked school email account, America's Top Young Scientist, and Denmark's deepfake bill. 8:10
  10. 3rd - 5th: A self-driving Mars rover breaks a record, girls' apps win a global contest, Roblox's new Quick Words, an AI ship video, and AI class in the UAE! 7:52
  11. K-2nd: A robot on Mars sets a driving record, girls build apps that help families, kids code all over Europe, and a giant-wave video that wasn't real! 🚀 5:50
  12. 9-12: Character.AI's bankruptcy and your chat data, Python 3.15 ships, Dragon Quest's creator builds a game with AI in 30 minutes, schools top a cyberattack chart, and Technovation's champions. 8:58
  13. Grade 9-12: Inside the ChatGPT for Teens safety audit, hijacked country domains securing HTTPS certs, an AI-tutor trial linked to lower grades, TikTok's alleged placebo button, and a Nobel for IceCube 9:06
  14. Grade 6-8: ChatGPT for Teens gets a failing grade from a safety group, AI glasses vs. Korea's biggest exam, a district that unplugged everything, phone-free school plans, and a student-built satellite 8:18
  15. Grade 3-5: A phishing email in school inboxes, a bill that says chatbots must admit they're AI, the new Googlebook, Australia's game-safety report card, and a robot that drops like a maple seed! 7:49
  16. Grade K-2: Kids built a tiny satellite, a robot that falls like a maple seed, a squishy robot that swims three ways, and what to do about a tricky email! 5:46
  17. Grade 9-12: How an AI wins with hidden information, anatomy of a forged-JWT bug bounty, a quantum computer in a high school, AI chips in orbit, and regulation by settlement. 9:01
  18. Grade 6-8: An AI that masters bluffing, two AI fakes and how they got caught, lawsuits redesigning TikTok and Roblox, a 16-year-old's $5,000 Microsoft bug, and Starship reaches orbit. 8:29
  19. Grade 3-5: Minecraft's new dimension, an AI that wins at Stratego without seeing the pieces, a snake that was never there, Starship reaches orbit, and Roblox's new safety rules! 7:50
  20. Grade K-2: Minecraft's brand-new world, a snake photo made by AI, astronauts who zoomed to space in under 8 hours, and kids who coded a robot stage crew! 5:38
  21. Grade 9-12: A zero-knowledge proof for your age, Discord's classifier and its two errors, the anatomy of two deepfakes, what TLS actually does, and engineering a robot that's safe to stand next to. 8:44
  22. Grade 6-8: Discord's AI guesses your age, a real embassy posted a fake AI selfie, talking Magic cards, Chrome's new HTTPS warning, and 190+ countries send robots to Korea! 8:50
  23. Grade 3-5: Your code on the space station, $170 AI glasses that guide the blind, a robot that sits down to stay safe, the fake 'device infected' pop-up, and why you look for the lock! 8:04
  24. Grade K-2: Kids' code on the space station, a robot that sits down to stay safe, game cards that talk, and a new 'ask first' button for websites! 5:43
  25. Grade 9-12: Gemini shipped on by default for every student, California signed 13 kids' online-safety laws in a day, Florida sues Netflix, and India asks whether a kid can click 'I agree.' 14:34
  26. Grade 6-8: Google switched on AI for every student, a cyberattack closed 66 schools for a week, Chicago puts an AI ban on the ballot, and a fake volcano video fooled the news! 11:01
  27. Grade 3-5: A dino-age feather found in poop, an AI that reads the Moon, a middle schooler's glove that talks, and Florida takes Netflix to court! 7:46
  28. Grade K-2: A perfect feather hidden in dinosaur poop, a jet that whispers instead of booms, Minecraft's new fall forest, and the volcano video that fooled everyone! 5:04
  29. Grade 9-12: The two biggest U.S. districts restricted student AI on the same day, TikTok pays $400M over kids' privacy, and a game leak becomes a privacy fight. 13:20
  30. Grade 6-8: NASA banned AI from its student rocket challenge, New York City paused AI for 600,000 students, and a sophomore built a tongue-steered wheelchair! 11:05
  31. Grade 3-5: A comet got 20,000 times brighter, Saturn grew a ten-sided shape, and two teens built an app that finds help fast! 8:06
  32. Grade K-2: Saturn drew a ten-sided shape, a spaceship reached Mercury after 8 years, kids everywhere are coding robots, and how to spot a tricky message! 4:46
  33. Grade 9-12: Meta's $18 billion settlement and new teen limits, ChatGPT for Teens, a country's social-media ban tested, and AI that designs viruses. ⚖️ 7:35
  34. Grade 6-8: Your homework helper got smarter, a whole state goes phone-free, AI spots hurricanes sooner, and a student wins robotics gold! 🤖 6:34
  35. Grade K-2: The Moon turned blood-red, robots ran a race (and fell over!), a rover climbed a mountain on Mars, and cars that drive themselves! 🌕 4:47
  36. Grade 3-5: A rocket launched a super weather camera, a giant new space telescope, tiny germ-hunting robots, and a teen's laser weed robot! 🛰️ 4:58
  37. Grade 9-12: The classroom AI gold rush, a brutal week in court for social media, KOSA moves in the Senate, and the chatbot-law wave. 10:05
  38. Grade 6-8: AI study tools hit your classroom, teens medal at the AI Olympics, a student ships a real AI app, and the great cellphone ban of 2026. 8:18
  39. Grade 3-5: A total eclipse, Minecraft caves for real science, phones away all day, satellites that text your phone, and a solar milestone! 5:40
  40. Grade K-2: The Moon hid the Sun, robots learn to walk, phones rest at school, and the clearest Sun photos ever! 4:13
  41. Grade 9-12: Teens win an AI contest and internships, students draft a 'model' law, and two states pick rival age checks. 🔐 8:29
  42. Grade 6-8: When AI builds the game, who's the creator? Plus model laws and device-based age checks. 🏛️ 7:41
  43. Grade 3-5: Type an idea and get a game, kids code with words, and phones go away at school! 🌐 5:02
  44. Grade K-2: Make a game just by talking, phones rest at school, and why we always check AI! 🎮 3:46
  45. Grade 9-12: Tech & Society 6:25
  46. Grade 6-8: Tech Innovators 5:23
  47. Grade 3-5: Tech Explorers 4:00
  48. Grade K-2: Tiny Tech, Big News 3:08
  49. Why Hackers Target Schools & Being the Boss of AI | TFE TechCheck Ep. 1 | Grades 6-8 2:31
  50. How to Build a "Digital Diet" & The AI Homework Debate | TFE TechCheck Ep. 1 | Grades 3-5 3:40