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Senegal Surf School Surfs Girls Back to Class

The Winter Olympics in Italy kicked off Friday with fireworks, Mariah Carey, and a dancing stovetop espresso maker, according to NPR. Simultaneously, in Dakar, Senegal, a surf academy is helping girls return to school, while in the world of technology, a new Claude connector was launched for WordPress users, and an experimental surgery is helping cancer survivors give birth, as reported by TechCrunch and MIT Technology Review.

The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics began with the San Siro Stadium in Milan as the primary host, but celebrations were also held in Livigno, Predazzo, and Cortina, according to NPR. The opening ceremony featured a parade of nations where women escorting athletes wore floor-length puffy coats and oversized sunglasses.

In Dakar, Senegal, a surf academy run by Black Girls Surf is providing a unique opportunity for young girls. The program, which includes about 20 girls from the fishing village of Xataxely, requires them to attend school if they want to surf, according to Euronews. The four-month program combines surfing lessons with evening classes for girls who had dropped out or never enrolled. The girls largely come from Lebou households, traditional Wolof fishing communities native to the area.

Meanwhile, in the tech world, WordPress launched a new Claude connector, allowing site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic's chatbot system, as reported by TechCrunch. Users can control what data they share and can revoke access. Claude has read-only access, meaning it cannot alter anything within a user's CMS.

In medical news, an experimental surgical procedure is helping cancer survivors give birth. Surgeons are pioneering a solution to the damaging side effects of radiation and chemotherapy on the uterus and ovaries, according to MIT Technology Review. The procedure involves stitching the organs out of the way during cancer treatment and then putting them back in place after treatment. A team in Switzerland announced the birth of a baby boy, Lucien, the fifth baby born after the surgery and the first in Europe, according to Daniela Huber, the gyno-oncologist who performed the operation.

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