Jul 04 Google restores links to Guardian articles in Europe after criticism over censorship By Diane Jeanty The move comes after Google notified British media outlets, The Guardian and the BBC that links to some articles would no longer be visible on their search engine after they received complaints to have the links removed. Continue reading
Jun 27 When educational games work: Mission U.S. demonstrates best of video game learning By Elizabeth Jones How often do students get to time-travel back to 1770 Boston, talk to both patriots and loyalists, witness a brawl between local workers and British soldiers and then duck as troops open fire and the Boston Massacre sparks the American… Continue reading
Jun 25 How to 3-D print a dinosaur By Colleen Shalby The Smithsonian's Digitization Program is 3-D scanning and printing the more than 200 bones of the Nation's T.rex, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons ever discovered. Continue reading
Jun 17 Nobel Prize-winning prototype microchip arrives in New York for auction By Justin Scuiletti A piece of computing history has arrived in New York, and is due to go up for auction on Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch Companies tracking our online footsteps should be more transparent, says FTC By PBS News Hour Companies known as data brokers know a lot about you and the information you share online, including your interests, political preferences, religious affiliations and spending activities. The Federal Trade Commission is now raising questions about the transparency of this industry. Continue watching
Jun 11 Popular Twitter app TweetDeck hacked; shut down By Colleen Shalby TweetDeck, the tweet sharing and scheduling site connected to Twitter, was hacked on Wednesday. Continue reading
May 28 Watch Google’s diversity record shows women and minorities left behind By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 28 Fixing Google’s gender gap shouldn’t be so hard By Vivek Wadhwa Silicon Valley companies justify their dearth of women technologists by claiming that there just aren’t enough to go around. And employee data from Google released Wednesday prove that the technology behemoth is no different; only 17 percent of its technology… Continue reading
May 28 Google just took an important first step By Telle Whitney, Anita Borg Institute Today’s announcement by Google is a step in the right direction for the technology industry. That being said, the numbers are not good. Continue reading