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Moon Base?

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/the-trump-administration-has-unleashed-a-lunar-gold-rush/

Game Mode in Win 10

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:09:00 +0000

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/how-game-mode-will-make-games-run-better-on-windows/

Galaxy Note 7 Investigation Blames Small Battery Cases Poor Welding

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:11:00 +0000

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/galaxy-note-7-investigation-blames-small-battery-cases-poor-welding/

How It Works: Internet of Things

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Project Loon: Scaling Up

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Project Loon: Scaling Up

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New senses for humans?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 05:27:00 +0000

David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans? #TED : http://on.ted.com/j0pSa

Do you want to enable Cortana outside the US? Here's how you do it | Windows Phone Central

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Do you want to enable Cortana outside the US? Here's how you do it | Windows Phone Central:

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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:03:00 +0000

A good article from the NY Times, about implementing coding in the education system.

Imran Khaliq, 12, helped his brother Farhan, 7, left, and Aidan Brown, 6, at a school computer coding event in Mill Valley, Calif.

JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By MATT RICHTEL

MAY 10, 2014

MILL VALLEY, Calif. — Seven-year-old Jordan Lisle, a second grader, joined his family at a packed after-hours school event last month aimed at inspiring a new interest: computer programming.

“I’m a little afraid he’s falling behind,” his mother, Wendy Lisle, said, explaining why they had signed up for the class at Strawberry Point Elementary School.

The event was part of a national educational movement in computer coding instruction that is growing at Internet speeds. Since December, 20,000 teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade have introduced coding lessons, according toCode.org, a group backed by the tech industry that offers free curriculums. In addition, some 30 school districts, including New York City and Chicago, have agreed to add coding classes in the fall, mainly in high schools but in lower grades, too. And policy makers in nine states have begun awarding the same credits for computer science classes that they do for basic math and science courses, rather than treating them as electives.

There are after-school events, too, like the one in Mill Valley, where 70 parents and 90 children, from kindergartners to fifth graders, huddled over computers solving animated puzzles to learn the basics of computer logic.

It is a stark change for computer science, which for decades was treated like a stepchild, equated with trade classes like wood shop. But smartphones and apps are ubiquitous now, and engineering careers are hot. To many parents — particularly ones here in the heart of the technology corridor — coding looks less like an extracurricular activity and more like a basic life skill, one that might someday lead to a great job or even instant riches.

The spread of coding instruction, while still nascent, is “unprecedented — there’s never been a move this fast in education,” said Elliot Soloway, a professor of education and computer science at the University of Michigan. He sees it as very positive, potentially inspiring students to develop a new passion, perhaps the way that teaching frog dissection may inspire future surgeons and biologists.

But the momentum for early coding comes with caveats, too. It is not clear that teaching basic computer science in grade school will beget future jobs or foster broader creativity and logical thinking, as some champions of the movement are projecting. And particularly for younger children, Dr. Soloway said, the activity is more like a video game — better than simulated gunplay, but not likely to impart actual programming skills.

Some educators worry about the industry’s heavy role: Major tech companies and their founders, including Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, have put up about $10 million for Code.org. The organization pays to train high school teachers to offer more advanced curriculums, and, for younger students, it has developed a coding curriculum that marries basic instruction with video games involving Angry Birds and hungry zombies.

The lessons do not involve traditional computer language. Rather, they use simple word commands — like “move forward” or “turn right” — that children can click on and move around to, say, direct an Angry Bird to capture a pig.

Across the country, districts are signing up piecemeal. Chicago’s public school system hopes to have computer science as a graduation requirement at all of its 187 high schools in five years, and to have the instruction in 25 percent of other schools. New York City public schools are training 60 teachers for classes this fall in 40 high schools, in part to prepare students for college.

“There’s a big demand for these skills in both the tech sector and across all sectors,” said Britt Neuhaus, the director of special projects at the office of innovation for New York City schools. The city plans to expand the training for 2015 and is considering moving it into middle schools.

The movement comes with no shortage of “we’re changing the world” marketing fervor from Silicon Valley. “This is strategically significant for the economy of the United States,” said John Pearce, a technology entrepreneur. He and another entrepreneur, Jeff Leane, have started a nonprofit, MV Gate, to bring youth and family coding courses developed by Code.org to Mill Valley, an affluent suburb across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

Parents love the idea of giving children something to do with computers that they see as productive, Mr. Pearce said. “We have any number of parents who say, ‘I can’t take my kid playing one more hour of video games,’ ” he said. But if the children are exploring coding, the parents tell him, " ‘I can live with that all night long.’ ”

The concept has caught on with James Meezan, a second grader. He attended one of the first “Hour of Code” events sponsored by MV Gate in December with his mother, Karen Meezan, the local PTA president and a former tech-industry executive who now runs a real estate company. She is among the enthusiastic supporters of the coding courses, along with several local principals.

Her son, she said, does well in school but had not quite found his special interest and was “not the fastest runner on the playground.” But he loves programming and spends at least an hour a week at CodeKids, after-school programs organized by MV Gate and held at three of Mill Valley’s five elementary schools.

James, 8, explained that programming is “getting the computer to do something by itself.” It is fun, he said, and, besides, if he gets good, he might be able to do stuff like get a computer to turn on when it has suddenly died. His mother said he had found his niche; when it comes to programming, “he is the fastest runner.”

Other youngsters seemed more bewildered, at least at first. “The Google guys might’ve been coders, and the Facebook guys — I don’t know,” said Sammy Smith, a vibrant 10-year-old girl, when she arrived at the coding event at Strawberry Point.

But well into the session, she and her fifth-grade friends were digging in, moving basic command blocks to get the Angry Bird to its prey, and then playing with slightly more complex commands like “repeat” and learning about “if-then” statements, an elemental coding concept. The crowd had plenty of high-tech parents, including Scott Wong, director of engineering at Twitter. His 7-year-old son, Taeden, seemed alternately transfixed and confused by the puzzles on the laptop, while his 5-year-old brother, Sai, sat next to him, fidgeting.

The use of these word-command blocks to simplify coding logic stems largely from the work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, which introduced a visual programming language called Scratch in 2007. It claims a following of millions of users, but mostly outside the schools.

Then, in 2013, came Code.org, which borrowed basic Scratch ideas and aimed to spread the concept among schools and policy makers. Computer programming should be taught in every school, said Hadi Partovi, the founder of Code.org and a former executive at Microsoft. He called it as essential as “learning about gravity or molecules, electricity or photosynthesis.”

Among the 20,000 teachers who Code.org says have signed on is Alana Aaron, a fifth-grade math and science teacher in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. She heard about the idea late last year at a professional development meeting and, with her principal’s permission, swapped a two-month earth sciences lesson she was going to teach on land masses for the Code.org curriculum.

“Computer science is big right now — in our country, the world,” she said. “If my kids aren’t exposed to things like that, they could miss out on potential opportunities and careers.”

Correction: May 18, 2014

Because of an editing error, an article last Sunday about a national movement to teach computer programming referred incorrectly in some editions to the founder of Code.org, who favored the instruction. The founder, Hadi Partovi, is a man.

What Most Schools Don't Teach

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Arabic Programming Language at Eyebeam

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Hovering cars?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:03:00 +0000

CNET: Is this Hover Car the next people's car? http://goo.gl/mag/Evtfk

Amazon new gadget

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

CNET: Amazon likely to ship color Kindles this year, report says http://goo.gl/mag/RAjoD

Bulding blocks from electronics!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:23:00 +0000

I really like this kind of thinking :) it is true that there are amazing men and womens where they present great ideas.

Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach #TED : http://on.ted.com/BBCp

Installing Win 8

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:59:00 +0000

Finally I've finished installing Win 8 on my virtual PC (VMWare) :), although it took me a while until i install it successfully.

The first problem that i faced was a message indicating a problem in product key and i was able to solve it (with the help with uncle Google of course :D) by removing the floppy disk from the sittings.

http://www.wiztechie.com/2012/03/fix-windows-8-consumer-preview-productkey-setting-error-in-vmware-workstation-8/

After that everything seemed fine until when the process of installing windows another problem arise that is the one and only BsoD (Blue Screen of death!) and the message was " DPC_WATCHDOG_Violation"! And again the great uncle Google was a great help in case solving the problem :)

http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-programs-applications/5269-heeelp-your-computer-ran-into-problem.html

The solution was in the battery power sittings!! I had to switch it on High performance. I don't know why but it solved the problem!

And from the first look Win 8 will be a great OS hopefully it will not turn like Vista. The customization are cool i really liked it :).

New Modem

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:46:00 +0000

I had a new service with GO (ISP) and it was a good deal, at the time when i had it. Still trying it , it uses 4G (Wi-Max) although they still have a loooooong way to achive a decent service but still it does the work.

Google LatLong: Mapping made easier with the new Google Map Maker

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Google LatLong: Mapping made easier with the new Google Map Maker:

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COOL TECH

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:23:00 +0000

Transparent battery developer imagines see-through iPhone By Christina Hernandez | August 9, 2011, 4:00 AM PDT Forget the elusive white iPhone. Yi Cui, an engineering professor at Stanford University, imagines a transparent iPhone. Together with graduate student Yuan Yang, first author on a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cui developed a transparent battery — potentially the final component needed to make fully transparent electronics. “If the batteries were not transparent,” Cui said in an interview, “then the device wouldn’t be transparent.” Because the key components of batteries cannot be replaced or made transparent, Cui used a trick of the eye to develop the battery. He created a mesh-like framework for the battery electrodes. ”Each line in the grid is smaller than 50 microns,” he said. “When a human being looks at an object that’s smaller than 50 microns, it’s not visible. That’s how we make it transparent.” The team found a transparent alternative to copper and aluminum in polydimethylsiloxane, a compound used in contact lenses, according to a news release. They deposited metals onto the rubbery material to make it conductive and poured it into molds to build the transparent grids. Yang created a transparent substance that served as both an electrolyte and a separator and inserted it between the electrodes, creating a functional battery. “It’s completely new,” Cui said. Now, the researchers are working to increase the capacity of the transparent battery, which is only about half as powerful as its lithium-ion counterparts. And they’re hoping others take notice. “We’d like industry to pick up our concept,” Cui said, “and do the commercialization of these transparent batteries.” From there, the possibilities are varied. ”Imagine you have a watch that you want to look transparent,” Cui said. “You can have your iPhone be transparent. You can have your laptop be transparent.”

Bug In Windows Calculator | Learn Ethical Hacking

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:11:00 +0000

Bug In Windows Calculator | Learn Ethical Hacking

Hey Readers! this time Learn Hacking has brought a cool windows bug for you guys.

Its something everyone should know.
This is a Bug in Windows Calculator.

Note:- It works with all versions of Windows.

So without much discussion, let me proceed to the bug.
Have you ever used square root button in windows?

If yes, it is a possibility that you might have come across this bug…. If not, you are just about to know it..

Just follow the steps:-

1) Open calculator ie..
Goto run and type – calc

2) Now type the following
2.1) Type 4
2.2) Take its square root by using the square root button,
2.3) Now you will get 2. Subtract 2 from it.
2.4) The answer should have been 0 but its not. You would have got a long number as your answer.

See.. it was as simple.

Here is the general syntax to this bug.

1) Take Any number
2) Take its square root
3) Subtract its square root from it
4) Your answer is not 0.. That’s the bug.

I am sure this was something new for most of you out here..;-)

New technology developed for the large-scale editing of DNA

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:13:00 +0000

New technology developed for the large-scale editing of DNA

Cool tech, i wonder what can they achieve with it? I mean what is the full extent to it!

New search possibilities with Google

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:40:00 +0000

Google had just add new way if web searching in there search engine. Cool stuff from Google
Google brings Search by Image and Voice Search to desktops

Future tech that will help disabled people

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:10:00 +0000

Implant could wirelessly relay brain signals to paralyzed limbs

Share Computer Hope

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:56:00 +0000

Good tips for googling google :)
Share Computer Hope

Mobile phones in developing nations could charge up using dirt

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 03:25:00 +0000

A new technology which i find really amazing if it could be implemented correctly.

Mobile phones in developing nations could charge up using dirt

10 reasons to start a company (and 10 not to) | VentureBeat

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:53:00 +0000

10 reasons to start a company (and 10 not to) | VentureBeat