Jul 10 Russian physicist brothers plan to resurrect Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The 20th century visionary competed with Thomas Edison and had a long list of inventions to his name: the Tesla coil, alternating current electricity, an electric motor, radio, X-rays and envisioning of the first smartphone technology in 1901. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch California school integrates play with learning By PBS News Hour At first glance, it might seem like the students who attend the private K-12 New Roads School in Santa Monica, California, are simply playing video and computer games all day. But these students are actually taking part in a new… Continue watching
Jul 08 Messaging app Yo alerts Israelis to rocket attacks By Colleen Shalby Yo, the messaging app whose initial purpose was to send “yo” alerts to your phone in advance of someone’s arrival -- a feat that earned it a whopping $1.2 million in funding -- has a newfound use. Continue reading
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