India's Manipur education department has launched an online learning website for students in classes 1 to 12. The website which already contains 85 bilingual audiovisual classes will be updated regularly with more classe...
The twenty-second annual session of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), which was held from 13-17 May 2019 in Geneva, addressed key issues regarding the implications of rapid technological change fo...
Technology companies, Facebook, Google, Apple, BT, and Microsofthave been accused of failing to prevent the online abuse of children. and will have to provide evidence on the adequacy of initiatives taken by them to prevent online...
The US Supreme Court has ruled in case Apple v. Pepper, 17-204 that the consumers may proceed with antitrust claims against Apple for forcing them to buy apps exclusively from Apple, therefore monopolising the retail market for ap...
The Police General Command in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has announcedplans to deploy driverless vehicles on the city roads by 2020. The institution signed a memorandum of understanding with technology company Acacus T...
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Researchers at University of Washington and Disney Research have developed a method that gives sensing capabilities to a piece of paper, so it becomes responsive to gesture commands and can connect to the digital world. The PaperI...
The legislature in Arizona (US) has elaboratedlegislation that would require state institutions to migrate their IT resources and operations in the cloud. Under this legislation, a 'two-year hardware, platform and software refresh...
The US House of Representatives' information technology team has blocked lawmakers from accessing Google applications hosted on cloud services. The House fears that these apps will be targeted by hacking campaigns and ransomware a...
UNESCO's 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, which took place from 9 to 12 May in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, addressed the importance of promoting multilingualism online. The confe...
Augmental Finding new ways to increase inclusivity and accessibility is crucial because more than one billion people in the world live with disabilities, according to the World Health Organization. One in seven ad...
A Peltier thermoelectric cooler module Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ I was approached the other day for cooling advice for an SBC (single board computer) project. Without going into unnecessary detail, the issue was th...