Mar 12 The kid who was coding before it was cool By Avi Flombaum Avi Flombaum started teaching himself HTML and CSS when he was in fifth grade, in 1995. Three years later, he designed a website for his local YMCA. Today, he's the co-founder and dean of the Flatiron School, a 12-week coding… Continue reading
Mar 09 LIVE BLOG: Will the Apple Watch crack open the market for wearables? By News Desk Can the computer giant crack the trendy-but-fringe wearables market, or is the Apple Watch destined to go the same route as Google Glass?… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch 3:08 Teaching computers how to play Atari better than humans By PBS News Hour Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on how an artificial intelligence business owned by Google has created software that can teaching itself to play classic Atari games better than a human. Continue watching
Feb 24 Users debate new, diverse emoji options By Corinne Segal Apple unveiled a beta version of new, non-white emoji options yesterday, spurring a conversation on whether the new choices are an effective way to address diversity while texting. Continue reading
Feb 16 New standardized tests throw technology curve at some students By Kimberly Hefling, Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press Standardized tests have multimedia components, written essays and multi-step calculations needed to solve math problems that go beyond just using rote memory. Students in some states will take adaptive versions in which questions get harder or easier depending on their… Continue reading
Feb 13 Obama to focus on cybersecurity in heart of Silicon Valley By Darlene Superville, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Responding to unprecedented data breaches and cyberattacks, President Barack Obama is trying to spark alliances between policymakers who want to regulate the online world and tech innovators who traditionally shun Beltway bureaucracies. Continue reading
Feb 12 Facebook users finally have say over their account after death By Marina Lopes Facebook, the site where members carefully curate memories of life's most important milestones, announced Thursday it will allow users to put their online affairs in order and decide what happens to their profiles once their status can no… Continue reading
Feb 09 Report claims automakers have failed to make cars hacker-proof By Joan Lowy, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Automakers are cramming cars with wireless technology, but they have failed to adequately protect those features against the real possibility that hackers could take control of vehicles or steal personal data, a member of the U.S. Senate is… Continue reading
Feb 06 Cyberattacks keep TurboTax users from filing returns By Anna Sillers After seeing an increase of stolen information used to file fraudulent state tax returns, TurboTax announced that the processing of all state filing has been halted and the option to file state taxes online no longer exists. Continue reading
Feb 06 Japan to probe melted Fukushima reactor with 'snake' robot By Jasmine Wright Tokyo Electric Power Co. is finally ready to examine the inside of one of the three compromised reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant -- with the help of a remote-controlled robot that uncannily resembles a snake. Continue reading