Tech News Today 1818

Foxconn announced that it's investing $10 billion dollars to build an LCD display plant that will bring up to 3,000 jobs to Wisconsin.

The Verge reports that a swimming robot called Little Sunfish might have just spotted nuclear fuel that melted six years ago. This could be the first step toward cleaning up the dangerous mess from the Fukishima power plant disaster in 2011.

Facebook released its second quarter earnings report with the company’s best quarter of revenue to date at around $9.32 billion dollars, an increase of 45% year over year. Net income was up 71% from the previous year at $3.89 billion.

Also, Google is killing its Instant Search feature, the Girls Scouts are adding 23 new STEM badges, and Geoffrey Fowler from The Wall Street Journal shows off Lego’s new Boost kit.

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Links

• Girl Scouts adds STEM badges for robotics and computer science
• Foxconn Says It Plans to Build Factory in Wisconsin, Adding 3,000 Jobs
• This swimming robot may have finally spotted melted nuclear fuel inside Fukushima
• Facebook swears its business is going to slow down soon—today is not that day
• Google has dropped Google Instant Search
• Google Adds Autoplay Video to Search Results Page
• Lego Boost Review: Meet Your Child’s New Coding Coach