Aug 16 Education Department to offer aid for professional training partnerships By Courtney Norris The U.S. Department of Education is providing $17 million in grants and loans to assist low-income students in enrolling in eight “nontraditional” training programs, part of the Obama administration’s efforts to make college more accessible and affordable. Continue reading
Jul 22 Airbnb enlists Eric Holder to address racial discrimination By Kenya Downs Airbnb has a racial discrimination problem, and they're enlisting former Attorney General Eric Holder to help fix it. Continue reading
Jul 18 What NASA could teach Tesla about the limits of autopilot By John Pavlus, Scientific American Decades of research have already warned about the human attention span in automated cockpits. Continue reading
Jul 14 Pokémon GO uses augmented reality — or does it? By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American Pokémon GO’s pocket monsters may be taking over the world—but they’re not quite part of it yet, a tech pioneer insists… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch 6:56 ‘Zero Days,’ a detective story about the cyber warfare arms race By PBS News Hour “Zero Days,” a new documentary by Alex Gibney, lays out a sobering view of the rise of cyber warfare and its acceleration since intelligence agencies sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program. Gibney sits down with Jeffrey Brown. Continue watching
Jul 07 This camera snaps photos three billion times faster than an iPhone By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American A new approach to high-speed photography could help capture the clearest-ever footage of light pulses, explosions or neurons firing in the brain. Continue reading
Jul 01 Lego-like design may end smartphone upgrades, reduce pollution By Jeremy Hsu, Scientific American Google, LG and others are experimenting with gadgets that come with swappable cameras and sensors and could hit the market next year. Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch 4:29 Teen scientist’s revolutionary speech device could grant language to the voiceless By PBS News Hour At age nine, Arsh Shah Dilbagi asked his parents for a puppy; they gave him a Lego kit instead. Undeterred, Arsh used it to construct a dog. Now 17, the tech prodigy is still building his dreams from scratch. His… Continue watching
Jun 22 Senate blocks allowing access to online data without warrant By Richard Lardner, Associated Press The Senate has blocked efforts to expand the government's power to investigate suspected terrorists by allowing the FBI to obtain a person's digital fingerprints without first securing a judge's permission. Continue reading
Jun 02 Watch 2:37 Teens on being tethered to their phones and social media By PBS News Hour Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media, and most of them can’t even conceive of a time where people sat around the dinner table without checking their Instagram pages. We asked a handful of eighth-graders… Continue watching