Rina Diane Caballar

2 min read Rina Diane Caballar is a Contributing Editor covering tech and its intersections with science, society, and the environment. Marina Umaschi Bers says kids should learn to code as they learn to read and write. Caitlin Cunningham/Boston College Marina Umaschi Bers has long been at the forefront of technological innovation for kids. In the 2010s, while teaching at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, she codeveloped the ScratchJr programming language and KIBO robotics kits, both intended

Software may be eating the world, but it is also heating it. In December 2023, representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Dubai for COP28, the U.N.’s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per page load, according to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder. That appears to be a tiny amount, but if the site gets 10,000 views each month for