Today’s Tech Sightings: Report: India Set to Become World’s Second-Largest Internet Market A new report from the Internet and Mobile Association of India and market research firm IMRB says India’s Internet users are expected to exceed 400 million by the end of this year, making the Indian Internet market the world’s second-largest after China. Latest […]
China, India Dominate Internet Market; China’s Kids Take Up Coding
Posted November 18th, 2015 at 12:18 pm (UTC-5)
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Education Tech; Alphabet; Western Tech Firms in China
Posted August 19th, 2015 at 3:55 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: How Bill and Melinda Gates Want to Transform Teaching Bill and Melinda Gates are putting up a series of blog posts this week to look at ways technology can transform education. In one post, Bill Gates points to a school system in California, which now uses computers to analyze how kids perform […]
Braille Tutor; Google vs. EU; Coding Hype; Smartphone Aids Chess Cheat
Posted April 15th, 2015 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Black Box Teaches Braille to Blind Children in India, Zambia Carnegie Mellon University’s Braille Tutor, part of a program called TechBridgeWorld, is a computerized machine that teaches Braille to elementary school children in poor countries around the world. The inexpensive machine is now in use on in India, Tanzania, and Zambia. GAO […]
Choking Russia’s Internet; Uber Troubles; IoT; Google Hangouts
Posted December 10th, 2014 at 2:43 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Russia’s Creeping Descent Into Internet Censorship A new Russian law could soon prevent foreign Internet companies from reaching the country unless they set up local servers. The move would effectively put these companies at the mercy of the Russian government, which has been gradually expanding censorship. Obama Becomes First US President to Write […]
Tech Sightings, October 1, 2014
Posted October 1st, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
iOS Trojan Spies on Hong Kong Protesters Lacoon Mobile Security has revealed that the phones of protesters demanding more democratic reform in Hong Kong are being targeted by “Xsser mRAT,” which is spyware believed to be the work of the Chinese government. The spyware is disguised as a fake application aimed at monitoring protesters’ communications. […]
Tech Sightings, August 19, 2014
Posted August 19th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
The Neuroscience-y Reason You Can’t Spot Your Own Typos Wondering why you missed that last typo? A University of Sheffield psychologist told Wired that people reading their own stuff look for meaning rather than the details that convey it. New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play There’s always something that needs doing in […]
Tech Sightings, July 31, 2014
Posted July 31st, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Facebook-Backed Nonprofit Brings Free Internet to Zambia Facebook’s non-profit group, Internet.org, is releasing an app that provides Zambians with limited, but free Internet data access and news about health, employment and other relevant local information. New Display Tech Corrects for Bad Eyesight Are the days of the reading glasses numbered? The University of California, Berkley […]
Tech Sightings, July 24, 2014
Posted July 24th, 2014 at 1:00 pm (UTC-5)
Could Food Waste Power Our Cities? Florida’s Harvest Power, a group that first started by collecting food waste from Walt Disney World, has found a new way to produce energy. Quadrillions of microorganisms, feeding on discarded food, consume the waste much faster than it would take for it to decompose and produce biogas – a […]
Black Girls Code Adds Color to Tech Scene – Q&A with Kimberly Bryant
Posted June 27th, 2014 at 2:28 pm (UTC-5)
The lack of diversity in Silicon Valley’s mostly white, mostly male workforce has attracted a lot of scrutiny and criticism in recent months. But even if criticism is warranted, the problem originates elsewhere – in early education. That realization has driven several tech companies to action. Among them is Google, whose $50 million Made with […]