Tyler Kingkade
@tktk.bsky.social
NBC News National Enterprise Reporter. Currently covering education and tech. Iowa raised, Los Angeles living. Bad at social media, good at petting animals. Signal: tylerkingkadenbc.20 tyler.kingkade[at]nbcuni.com https://www.tylerkingkade.com/
This doesn't seem to get much attention ever but it is so bizarre to see the federal government announce in a press release it is going to investigate something, and issue a press release bashing the "radical left" and essentially saying from the outset what the investigation will conclude
I wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
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Before The Odyssey, staring Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, I saw trailers for Spider-Man starring Tom Jon and Zendaya, and Dune, staring Rob and Zendaya www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/... l
How a handful of actors came to dominate Hollywood
“The Odyssey” stars Zendaya, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland are booked, busy and in every blockbuster you are seeing this year.
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THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
Trump's local attorney in Iowa argued in court today that the president doesn't need to present any evidence to support his claim that a pre-election poll from the Des Moines Register was fraudulent -- he's allowed to just say it is and sue over it iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/07/10/j...
If you or a loved one has been affected by a gambling problem, @suzykhimm.bsky.social wants to hear from you www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
We want to hear about your experience with gambling addiction
If you or a loved one has been affected by a gambling problem, we want to hear from you.
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"Digital ownership does not exist.” Why Sony getting rid of discs for video games is so much more significant - and worse - than Netflix switching away from mailing you DVDs www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-g... by @angelayang.bsky.social
For gamers, the fight to ‘save the disc’ is about more than nostalgia
Sony said it will stop releasing new PlayStation games on physical discs in 2028, a move critics say leaves players buying revocable licenses instead of games they truly own.
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After decades of abuse allegations, and multiple investigations by journalists confirming abuse, Utah has taken away the license of the troubled teen facility Provo Canyon www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Utah revokes license for boarding school where Paris Hilton says she was abused as a teen
The state’s action, which took effect Monday, cites multiple noncompliance issues against the Provo Canyon School’s campus in Springville. The school has 15 days to request a hearing before the Depart...
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“I wasn’t playing girls’ soccer because I couldn’t handle it on the boys team — I was playing girls’ soccer because that’s where my friends were and that’s where I felt comfortable, and that’s where I belong.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... via @joyurcaba.bsky.social
For trans student-athletes, the Supreme Court’s ruling is just the latest blow
Amid a drumbeat of state and federal policies restricting transgender rights, the court’s decision left some trans athletes and their advocates angry and afraid.
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since she also performs there, isn’t this basically like getting married at work?
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · last mo.Okay, but why would Taylor Swift *want to get married at Madison Square Garden?
Important reporting, careful and beautiful writing, and devastating details about what’s at stake for those losing Medicaid support and with the Trump admin abandoning the right of disabled Americans to live at home
Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · last mo.For a half-century, U.S. policy has pushed to keep disabled Americans out of institutions. Now Rebecca Anger and many others fear that era could be coming to an end. Here's my latest on the Trump administration's growing attacks on Medicaid-funded home-care programs.
Muslim Americans attend Texas GOP convention, and were told to leave the country www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...
Muslims at Texas GOP Convention told to leave party, country
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
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is it not possible to just ban police from shooting at moving cars? www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call
A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.
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with Roblox being sued by multiple states and families over safety issues with kids, the platform is now rolling out features they say can detect through a camera how old kids are. @angelayang.bsky.social got a demo --> www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
How old are you really? Inside Roblox’s new campaign to verify user ages
“Not everyone is going to be happy all the time,” the platform’s head of safety product policy told NBC News, saying Roblox believes its safety updates are worth the turbulence.
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I rooted for the Spurs bc I watched one of their players (Harrison Barnes) play ball in hs in Ames, Iowa, where I went to college -- but it's hard to not be happy for a team led by a guy turning down $100m, FaceTiming Make-a-Wish kids and bringing his rescue dogs to MSG
FBI special agents searched an office of a progressive organization in Ohio as part of a Justice Department investigation into its voter registration efforts, three people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
Ohio progressive group raided by FBI accuses Trump’s DOJ of intimidation
The Justice Department investigation is focused on the group’s voter registration efforts, and is part of the administration’s ongoing effort to pursue allegations of voter fraud.
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My NBC News colleagues got a Trump phone, and tore it open to look at its Chinese-made parts www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets...
We tore open the Trump phone: it was nearly the same as a Taiwanese device with Chinese parts
A scanner, a microscope and an old-fashioned teardown of Trump Mobile’s T1 phone showed that it was almost identical to the HTC U24 Pro.
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“Bass said Raman had not done enough to reduce homeless encampments near schools or to address other problems throughout the city…” Narrator: Bass is the current mayor, not Raman. So the current mayor is now just taking the talking points of the defeated right-wing reality tv villain? Weird.
Karen Bass slams Nithya Raman over homeless encampments in LA mayoral race
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s campaign slammed her rival, the progressive candidate Nithya Raman, quickly Sunday after Raman was projected to advance to a runoff election for the mayoral position.…
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you can buy the "villain" of Toy Story 5 and connect with Jessie, Buzz, Woody and the Tech Trio "by texting them using emojis and preset messages"
An internal presentation from Google, in 2018, noted that AI and machine learning was a growing interest for schools, and Google could move into those spaces to stay at top of the ed tech space Last week, I sat in on an AI training for teachers at Google HQ >> www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
NEW: I went to Google's HQ to watch an AI training for K-12 educators In one session, they walked through how to persuade skeptical teachers to give AI a shot -- or at least prevent them from talking for 15 min about how AI is bad www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
Inside Google’s AI training for teachers
The technology giant flew 70 educators to its California headquarters to learn about its AI products — and how to persuade skeptical colleagues to use them.
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An internal presentation from Google, in 2018, noted that AI and machine learning was a growing interest for schools, and Google could move into those spaces to stay at top of the ed tech space Last week, I sat in on an AI training for teachers at Google HQ >> www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
NEW: I went to Google's HQ to watch an AI training for K-12 educators In one session, they walked through how to persuade skeptical teachers to give AI a shot -- or at least prevent them from talking for 15 min about how AI is bad www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
Inside Google’s AI training for teachers
The technology giant flew 70 educators to its California headquarters to learn about its AI products — and how to persuade skeptical colleagues to use them.
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Imagine being so rich you could afford $100K tickets to the NBA finals and you dress like you’re going to your niece’s baptism
hi @nytimes.com - I actually first reported on these documents in January: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-... It is not correct, as you say in your story today, that the WSJ first reported on them. (first screenshot from NYT, second screenshot from my Jan story on NBC)
NEW: I wrote about the self-published book that is fueling a movement of parents demanding less screen time in schools -- and becoming a major headache for school administrators www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
The book fueling a movement against screens in schools
“The Digital Delusion” connects the collapse in standardized test scores to the rise of education technology in public schools. It’s drawing a heated debate.
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NEW: I wrote about the self-published book that is fueling a movement of parents demanding less screen time in schools -- and becoming a major headache for school administrators www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
The book fueling a movement against screens in schools
“The Digital Delusion” connects the collapse in standardized test scores to the rise of education technology in public schools. It’s drawing a heated debate.
nbcnews.com
A stark example of how use of an AI math tutoring program is going in a NYC school www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...
