in that room. darrell issa will be here shortly. i knew that joe would always be the education president. i want to just say for a second what you and what the president has done, it is more than any other president since fdr and maybe more than fdr. you have a direct number to director walensky. yes, i have director walensky s direct number. let s give public school teachers a raise. we begin this tuesday with american students falling further behind in the classroom and new evidence that lockdown learning loss may be permanent for millions of kids. hello, i m john roberts in washington. you like the new digs, sandra? we are renting it renting it from bret. sandra: looks great. great to be with you, john, kicking off a brand-new hour, i m sandra smith in new york and this is america reports . despite billions of taxpayers dollars to help students recover from the unprecedented disruption they face, a brand-new study says progress in reading and math is stall
a semiconductor superpower. our asia business reporter monica miller has more. it is a major setback. prime minister narendra modi has made chip making a top priority for india s economic strategy in pursuit of what they say is a new era of electronics making. it doesn t get much bigger than foxconn, which makes roughly 70% of apple s iphones. india estimates that its semiconductor market could be worth $63 billion by 2026. now, we need to go back a little bit to explain how this partnership happened. that was in september 2020 to the taiwanese firm and the indian mining giant agreed to this deal. and part of it was because foxconn was looking at the situation then, which had strict covid restrictions in china, where a lot of these phones are made. they are also concerned about the geopolitical tensions we ve mentioned many times on this programme between the us and china. so it was looking to partner up, which is with the country which is now the largest in the world. but un
record set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. meta isn t creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similar web, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior, that s in the days immediately after threads launched. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the microblogging app but others such as mastodon, bluesky and truth social remain small. history shows that creating a social media platform is hard but when it works, it really w
set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. group three isn t creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similar web, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior, that s in the days immediately after threads launched. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the microblogging app but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social remain small. history shows that creating a social media platforms hard but when it works, it really wo
lara is creating something from nothing. it looks like powder but it sort of disappears. alistair is seeing how people can disappear into thin air. i want to make it look like i am the only one here. and paul is watching day fading in to night. the light is changing and we moved to sunset. first up it is movie quiz time. what dojames bond, star wars and the latest indiana jones film all have in common? correct, they were all filmed in part at pinewood studios, a brilliant place, totally iconic, with loads of stages and sets which have doubled for some of the most famous worlds in the world. and now the studios in buckinghamshire have moved into the virtual world. in collaboration with sony they have created a whole new filmmaking space and paul carter has been to find out more. at the world famous pinewood, sony have created a space to show off the potential of a new kind of studio known as virtual production. it utilises a high resolution crystal led screen to display the se