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‘Girls Make Games’ Redraws Gender Lines

Posted September 11th, 2015 at 3:41 pm (UTC-4)
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Aided by top industry players like Microsoft, Intel, Google Play, and Humble Bundle, a San Jose, California company is pushing gender boundaries in computer gaming to open the door for a future generation of women developers. LearnDistrict, an educational company that started as a husband and wife team looking to use fun computer games to […]

Sundar Pichai; Alphabet; IoT Security; Microsoft’s Funny AI

Posted August 11th, 2015 at 3:51 pm (UTC-4)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Who Is Sundar Pichai, Google’s New CEO? Out of the blue, Google announced Monday that it is restructuring. The Google you know will now be a subsidiary lead by a new CEO – Sundar Pichai. The new parent company is called Alphabet. Pichai has been with Google for the past 11 years. […]

Secret Cell Towers; Space Station Glitch; Watchers Watching the Watcher

Posted June 10th, 2015 at 3:15 pm (UTC-4)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Europol: Dozens Arrested in European Cyber Crime Sweep The European Union’s justice agency says it has arrested dozens of suspects in an international identity theft sting that involved millions of euros stolen; suspects allegedly stole victims’ usernames, passwords to steal money from bank accounts. Secret Cell Towers in London Fool Phones Into […]

Watson Learns Japanese; Hospital Robots; Samsung’s Smart TV Debacle

Posted February 11th, 2015 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Gaming Can Give Troubled Teens Another Shot at Learning Game developer Kuato’s game, Hakitzu, a hit in London schools, already has been used in more than 1 million coding sessions. The game lets students, some of whom have had various issues, learn how to code by leading a robot through an adventure-shooter scenario. […]

A Gates’ Look at the Future; Microsoft’s HoloLens; WhatsApp

Posted January 22nd, 2015 at 2:01 pm (UTC-4)
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Bill and Melinda Gates Bet Big on the Future Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda paint a rosy future for the world’s poorest in their foundation’s 2015 annual letter. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s outlook foresees mobile banking transforming lives and software advances revolutionizing learning, among other things. Gaming to Death: What […]

Online Harassment Is a Game of Control

Posted December 12th, 2014 at 2:45 pm (UTC-4)
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The ugly episode that has come to be known as GamerGate may have receded, but it left in its wake some unanswered questions. Why did a seemingly legitimate discussion of gaming journalism devolve into harassment and threats of violence against women journalists and critics? What triggered this behavior and was it a reflection of offline […]

Tech Sightings, October 14, 2014

Posted October 14th, 2014 at 1:49 pm (UTC-4)
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Mark Zuckerberg, Wife Priscilla Donate $25M to Fight Ebola Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced that they have made a donation of $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola, the deadly virus that has claimed more than 4,000 lives and continues to spread. While […]

Tech Sightings, September 17, 2014

Posted September 17th, 2014 at 2:33 pm (UTC-4)
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Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying John Brooks, a coder who dropped out of school at the age of 13, first created Ricochet, an encrypted instant messaging program, as a hobby. After the Snowden leaks about U.S. intelligence spying came to light, Brooks realized that he has the solution that can […]

Tech Sightings, September 4, 2014

Posted September 4th, 2014 at 2:25 pm (UTC-4)
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Apple Chastised for Unsafe Working Conditions in Supplier Factory Labor rights and advocacy groups say a Suqian, China factory owned by Catcher Technology was found to be in “serious health and safety, environmental, and human rights violations.”  The factory produces iPad and iPhone parts. Singapore Hospital Pilots Telehealth for Heart Patients Singapore’s Changi General Hospital […]

Q&A: Never Alone Brings Alaska Native Culture to Life

Posted August 22nd, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
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Never Alone traces its roots to a native Alaskan tale of an Inupiaq village besieged by an unrelenting blizzard – until a young hero comes to its rescue. The idea surfaced while Alaska’s Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC), which provides social, educational and employment services in the Cook Inlet region, evaluated new revenue sources, fresh […]