The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software. A go-kart track is an odd location to launch a tech initiative in the nation's biggest city. Yet last month there was New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, zipping around the 900-foot oval at Coney Island's Luna Park before stepping up to a podium to unveil a program called Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews . PIT will consist of five "game-changing" teams that, Mamdani promised, will "raise the bar for what New Yorkers can expect from City Hall." Working closely with city agencies, these small groups of engineers and designers will strive to change the hidebound and confusing tenor of current city services by using state-of-art skills to rapidly whip up specialized apps that solve real problems.

Throw out the chalk and blackboards, because there's a new player in the world of education. While ink and copybooks were the foundation stones for a new era of learning centuries ago, in 2021 we stand on the precipice of another massive change in educational technology: artificial intelligence. Today's Daily Dose takes you through the exciting new ways technology is set to mold education in the years to come. We look at how it can ease stress, save time and put a 21st-century touch on some age-old teaching methods. So hang up your backpack and put away your pencil and scissors.