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Internet: EU plans safer net for children
European Union officials are proposing to spend more than £30m to try to make the internet safer for children. The four-year plan has been put forward by the European Commission. The program, which needs to be approved by the EU governments comes at a time of growing concern over the potential dangers to children online
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Sketchy Grades for Cyber Schools. Dozens of online schools offer instruction in 19 US states, and more are getting into the act. But many of the current schools aren't measuring up...More from Wired News Apple's New Chapter in the Classroom Has Apple fallen back into a school daze? It sure seems that way from a recent series of bad tidings. ...More from Business Week It Had To Happen: The Disposable Computer A disposable paperboard computer has been developed and is already in use in Sweden. Developed by Cypak AB, the paperboard computer can collect, process, and exchange several pages of encrypted data, the company says ...More from TechWeb News Education: Technology: Mobile Robots Take Baby Steps. Darpa and U.S. Army researchers try to design robots that can traverse all types of terrain, but the machines will need legs to pull off the task. And that's a big hurdle ...More from Wired News Education: Technology: Parents Sue School Over Wi-Fi. Worried that the wireless network could adversely affect growing children's health, a group of parents launches a lawsuit against a Chicago-area institution. The school says the technology is safe ...More from Wired News Education: Technology: Schools Rule on Classroom Gadgets. Handheld devices and laptops are becoming essential back-to-school supplies for American students. Are they helping students work smarter or making it easier to cheat and chat? ...More from Wired News
Education: Technology: Being tracked down by your mobile.
Carrying a mobile phone? Then someone could be tracking your every movement and know where you are. Big Brother? Perhaps, but it could just be a Mexican restaurant wanting to invite you in for dinner
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Education: Technology: Welcome to summer camp! Now hand over your cell phone. Today's camp directors must decide how much of the wired world to let into their simpler, more rustic communities. All was quiet at Camp Belknap. After another full day of swimming, boating, and games, campers were asleep ...More from The Christian Science Monitor Education: Technology: Net traffic mirrors seasonal patterns. Even though it exists in cyberspace, Internet traffic seems to mimic people's seasonal patterns in the real world. Dan Hess, vice-president of Reston, Va.-based comScore Networks Inc., says Web traffic slows down as summer approaches because people turn to more active and outdoor pursuits ...More from The Globe and Mail Education: Technology: Canadian college plans virus-writing course. While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum. ...More from CNET News.com Education: Technology: US States answer the call, allow cells at school. As parents come to rely more on cell phones to keep track of their children, school and state officials are increasingly overturning decades-old bans on cell phones and pagers in schools ...More from USA Today Fire Up That Game, Boy. Video-game players have better visual skills than non-players, according to a new study of young men. Gamers process fast-changing visual information more efficiently -- and the military says they're better at operating long-range unmanned aerial vehicles ...More from Wired News Irish schools stop truants with text messages. Two Irish schools are testing a new scheme using modern mobile-phone technology to take the temptation out of playing truant. Under the scheme, a database records the names of absent students each day and automatically sends out a text message to parents notifying them if their child missed roll-call ...More from CNN Education: Exams: Remote eye to prevent cheating. Call it a spycam or an electronic invigilator - whatever they end up dubbing it, the University of Newcastle reckons it will stop online cheats. Newcastle has developed a camera that can monitor off-campus students doing exams online so they do not have to go to a supervised location ...More from Australian IT Afghan women usher in IT age. More than two decades of war kept Afghanistan out of the IT and Internet revolution, but graduates of a new Kabul University program hope to bring the country into the digital age and boost opportunities for women, in what remains a heavily male-dominated society ...More from Wired News Let 30th anniversary wishes ring. Standing on a sidewalk across from the Hilton hotel in mid-town Manhattan 30 years ago today, Martin Cooper did something never done before. To the bewilderment of passers-by, the Motorola project manager held a 2- pound box of wires and circuits to his ear and started talking into it -- becoming the first person to place a public call on a handheld cellular telephone ...More from San Francisco Chronicle The @ sign around the world - it's a little monkey. And a pig's tail. The @ sign seems a straightforward beast. We call it the 'at sign', which is what that symbol in the middle of email addresses is commonly known as here in the UK, in the US and most other English-speaking countries. It even carries that literal translation in other languages ...More from Silicon.com Table manners for geeks. In Virginia, graduating IT students get lessons in good manners. The best and brightest technology students at George Mason University in Virginia might have great jobs lined up after college, but when it comes to social graces many don't know a salad fork from a data fork ...More from Tech TV Teen's web browser wows top geeks. Sixteen-year-old Adnan Osmani seems like a typical teen boy interested in computers. But the ultrafast Web browser he created has some MIT and Intel tech researchers drooling. Others are more than a bit skeptical. Karlin Lillington reports from Ireland ...More from Wired News ICT Classroom Management - just got easier. A large UK primary school of 500 children had no spare rooms for a computer suite. They solved their problem by purchasing laptops and storing them in 2 LapSafes ...More from LapSafe.com DigiPens search for write market. Some observers believe digital pens will make traditional writing on paper obsolete by 2020. A Swedish company is at the forefront of pushing the technology ...More from Wired News Bond gadgets not just movie magic. Technology: The disappearing car in the new James Bond film, Die Another Day, isn't as farfetched as you might think. Like a lot of gadgets from previous 007 films, it's based on real technology ...More from Wired News Large insect-like robot to be created as part of innovative digital arts project. A groundbreaking project has just been launched that will bring an exciting new dimension to the performing arts using computer technology. Sci-art: Bio-robotic Choreography is an initiative that brings together artists, roboticists and technicians for an intriguing exploration of human/machine relationships ...More from the University of Suusex
Best Inventions: Virtual Keyboard.
If computer monitors can shrink to almost nothing, why not keyboards? They soon may. Two companies have developed prototype "virtual" keyboards designed to accompany portable devices like PDAs, tablet PCs and cell phones. Here's how they work: a laser beam projects a glowing red outline of a keyboard on a desk or other flat surface. A sensor like those used in digital cameras monitors the reflection of an infrared light projected on the same spot. It can tell which "keys" you are trying to strike by the way that reflection changes. Someday, similar keyboards may be built into the gadgets they work with, so that they disappear when not in use
...More from Time Magazine | Click here to Search the Time Archive Science for 11-year-olds: trigger a bomb. A UK government briefing document, which tells science teachers how to engage pupils' interest, includes the suggestion that they "use ball-bearings to make tilt switches for bombs" ...More from The Times
Best Inventions: Phone tooth.
Tired of having to wear a cell phone on your belt wherever you go? In the future, you may not have to. Two British researchers have developed a prototype "phone tooth" that can be embedded in a molar and receive cell-phone calls. The signals are translated into vibrations that travel from the tooth to your skull to your inner ear—where only you can hear them. Great for giving instructions to spies and NFL quarterbacks. Not so great for the rest of us, because while our teeth may talk to us, we can¹t talk back to them
...More from Time Magazine | Click here to Search the Time Archive Feds Go Back to the Sci-Fi Future. A recent report from federal technology and science minds reads a lot like classic science fiction from the 1930s -- minus the engaging prose ...More from Wired News
Best Inventions: Earth Simulator.
In 1997 a team of Japanese engineers dared to imagine a computer so powerful that it could keep track of everything in the world at once — steaming rain forests in Bolivia, factories in Mexico belching smoke, the jet stream, the Gulf Stream, the works. What's more, they dared to build it. When they turned it on, the engineers did something no mere mortal had ever done before: they created the Earth
...More from Time Magazine | Click here to Search the Time Archive Early autism ID could spur cure. Technology for diagnosing autism in infants shows promise for finding a cure for a disease that affects 1 in 250 children worldwide ...More from Wired News
Best Inventions: Infoscope.
Two years ago, IBM researcher Ismail Haritaoglu found himself at a Tokyo train station, unable to make heads or tails of the kanji lettering in the posted routes and timetables. Next time he'll be ready. His InfoScope snaps a picture of a street sign and ships it over a wireless network to a remote computer that extracts the text and beams back a translation — all in less than 15 seconds. Haritaoglu is working on a similar service for GPS-equipped cell phones that would offer travel tips
...More from Time Magazine | Click here to Search the Time Archive Laptops not yet Maine-Stream. In rural Maine, seventh-graders have the same shiny new laptops as their coastal cousins. But with fewer resources and training, many teachers are learning to use the machines along with their students ...More from Wired News Study: PDAs good for education. A new report from SRI finds that handhelds can be effective tools in the classroom. Over 90 percent of teachers who used them with their classes say that handhelds can have a positive impact on learning ...More from Wired News
Schools report using computers less.
Questions are asked after a big fall in the extent to which schools in England say they make "substantial" use of computers
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Tracking Lil' Suzie: A Kiddie GPS for the Masses? A startup is developing a Global Positioning System that parents can use to keep track of junior. Its main selling point is the inexpensive price tag, around $100 ...More from Wired News Campus life: Unplugged, dialed in. Founded in 1776, Dartmouth College is truly old school. But its precocious use of technology -- including a vast wireless network -- makes it a prototype for tomorrow's unwired society ...More from Wired News Toys for tots on the techie side. How do you know when a tech toy is a good one? When the kids smash them over each other's heads in a battle for control. ...More from Wired News Greek government bans all computer games. The government of Greece is making heroic efforts to humiliate the nation in front of the entire world, by banning all electronic games. That's right; something as innocent as playing computer chess on your laptop in a hotel lobby is now a crime with penalties of up to three months in stir and a fine of 10,000 euros ...More from the Register Of PowerPoint and Pointlessness. When one envisions the typical Microsoft PowerPoint user, the first image that comes to mind is usually a suit-clad yuppie crowing over a screen of bar charts. But if recent trends in elementary and secondary education hold their course, that stereotype could be changing ...More from Wired News A theory of evolution, for robots. Creating a robot that can fly like an insect or a bird is beyond the reach of technology right now. But building a bot that can teach itself to fly - now that's a real possibility. Lakshmi Sandhana reports from Chennai, India ...More from Wired News Instant answers with PDA pop quiz. Software that turns a PDA into a wireless Web server allows teachers to know how well their students are grasping their concepts. Nothing like a little impromptu quiz to make kids hate those handhelds ...More from Wired News Students Say MS Buys Curriculum. Microsoft gives money to the University of Waterloo in a research partnership. The school offers a new course in the company's programming language. More than a coincidence? Charles Mandel reports from Canada ...More from Wired News A D-Minus for computer exams. It's been three years since officials phased out paper-and-pencil exams in favor of the computer-based version of the Graduate Record Exam, but critics say that computer-adaptive testing remains flawed ...More from Wired News How the postman almost owned e-mail. A short history of the Postal Service's long relationship with electronic mail. Imagine that the U.S. Postal Service was in charge of e-mail. Sound absurd? It does to most people—until they realize that it almost happened ...More from MIT Technology Review Britain's Great Digital Empire. Great Britain's New Opportunities Fund is halfway through a hugely ambitious program to digitize vast swaths of the country's social, political and cultural life ...More from Wired News African schools get a tech boost. SchoolNetAfrica is working to bring technology resources to children, many of whom have never even seen a computer ...More from Wired News Princeton 'snoops on Yale'. Princeton University staffers are accused of improperly logging in to a Yale website that tells applicants whether they were accepted, but Princeton's head of admissions claims he was just checking out security ...More from Wired News Little Brother's fingerprints all over the library. It promised to be the high-tech saviour of the embattled primary-school librarian, an ingenious device that guaranteed no more lost library cards and fewer missing books ...More from the Times London schools put broadband on the curriculum. A broadband network which will supply all London's secondary and primary schools with internet access is now live. The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) is the result of 33 of London's local education authorities (LEAs) teaming up to enable kids and teachers to learn and communicate more effectively. ...More from Silicon.com
Recycling law could mean costly PCs.
Computers could become more costly thanks to European laws that force makers to recycle old machines. Soon to be enforced directives make the manufacturers of personal computers responsible for what happens to old machines when customers upgrade their stock of machines
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Stepford Child. Even though she's just 5 years old, Cindy Smart speaks five languages. She's a good reader. She can tell time and do simple math, including multiplication and division. She's not a prodigy. She's just good programming ...More from Wired News
Computers reach one billion mark.
One billion personal computers have been sold across the world, and the number of computers is set to explode in the next few years, reaching the two billion mark by 2008
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop An Egyptian stumper for Google, Or is it?. A "simple" query that seems like a no-brainer for google.com turns out to be an excellent illustration of why you can't find "everything" on the Internet and even when you can, the "answer" may not necessarily be correct ...More from Search Engine Report New 'T-ray' space camera also sees through clothes, walls. A new British science program aims to produce cameras for use in space that are so sensitive they will see through fog, smoke and even walls and clothing. The technology will detect an obscure yet ubiquitous form of radiation known as terahertz waves, also called T-rays. Similar cameras are also expected to have applications in airport security and medicine ...More from Space.com Animating a dance from real life. Creating a dance piece using motion capture software is a painstaking and arduous process. But for the experimental group Capacitor, the results were worth it ...More from Wired News What’s the purpose of life? Nanotechnology might provide the answer. Two different types of cutting-edge technology are promising (or threatening, as the fearful might see it) to radically change human abilities and capacities -- and even our identities. One – already the subject of plenty of political maneuvering -- is the biotechnological revolution ...More from Reason.com
Family implanted with computer chips.
A Florida family on has become the first to be implanted with computer chips that researchers hope will someday become an easy way to provide emergency room staffers with patients' medical information. Jeff and Leslie Jacobs, along with their 14-year-old son, Derek, had the tiny chips implanted in their arms
...More from USA Today | Click here to get 33% off USA Today A Satellite Baby-Sitting Service. Soon, parents can equip their kids with bracelets that allow them to track their movements on the Internet. Not good enough? Try an implantable GPS device secreted under the skin ...More from Wired News A Day, and a Toy, for a Daughter. Fisher-Price's Pixter -- a Palm Pilot for kids -- is one of the hottest toys on the market. Wired News put it through its paces with special toy tester Nadine Kahney, 5, on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day ...More from Wired News Business Education: Connectivity Kings: Oh, Canada. With 60 percent of its households connected to the Internet, Canada is well ahead of the United States. But Canadians lag well behind their southern neighbors in terms of spending their cash ...More from Wired News Technology Education: Furrybot to Watch Over You. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a cute, furry robot, and it's the latest in retirement home technology ...More from Wired News Classrooms Need Upgrades, Too. A design firm envisions a futuristic classroom with no books, desks or pencils. Teachers wonder who's going to pay for it ...More from Wired News Full Assault on Filter Software. One US librarian says being forced to install filtering software borders on evil authoritarian tactics as the challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act continues in court ...More from Wired News Shop Class: Bot to the Future. BattleBots says its high school tournament is "self-interested and altruistic." Also: Digitizing textbooks to help US students with special needs ... theater on the Web ...More from Wired News New Body Art: Chip Implants. Tattoos and piercings are fine for some, but a Canadian artist delves deeper, hoping to reveal her inner self with the help of microchips implanted in her hands ...More from Wired News Computer games may aid children's thinking. Researchers have found that playing computer games could significantly help children's logical thinking skills. They studied more than 700 children aged seven to 16 and found the games offered educational benefits. They found that their communication and problem-solving skills were developed because children liked to play in pairs and small groups ...More from Ananova Paper That Acts Digital. While digital technology has made great strides, it has yet to replace the simple elegance of a pad and pen. But a Swedish startup has an idea that looks promising. Things go digital. That's just the way it is ...More from Business 2.0
Girls know way around Net, parents.
Most teen girls consider themselves to be the savviest computer user in their home — better than their brothers and, naturally, way better than their parents. Indeed, more than half the girls questioned in a new survey say they can chat, flirt, and even read parents' e-mail without them catching on. Almost 20% say they could hack into a school computer
...More from USA Today | Click here to get 33% off USA Today Virtual world grows real economy. A computer game played by thousands of enthusiasts over the Internet has spawned an economy with a per-capita income comparable to that of a small country, according to new research by a US economist ...More from the New Scientist
No school today.
In dozens of school districts across the US, parents get a phone call with a taped message from the superintendent. And in even more districts, weather cancellations, early dismissals and other announcements come via mass e-mail or cell phone text message
...More from USA Today | Click here to get 33% off USA Today Kevin Bacon: You've Got Mail. Researchers are using e-mail to test the notion that everyone in the world can be reached through a short chain of social acquaintances. Are there really "six degrees of separation"? ...More from Wired News A Glove That Speaks Volumes. A teenager has turned a golf glove into a tool that can translate American Sign Language into text. Want to know more? Talk to the hand ...More from Wired News Searchin' for the Surfer's Saint. News that the Pope regards the Internet as a "wonderful instrument" may revive interest in the Catholic Church's search for the medium's patron saint ...More from Wired News Gurus of tomorrow's tech - a long look forward. Meet a handful of high-tech visionaries who have already made their marks -- and come along on a tour of the future of their fields ...More from BusinessWeek Future Technology: Really Special Forces. Lamont Drechsel is a mild-mannered mechanical engineer, but right now he looks like the violent offspring of G.I. Jane and Robocop. Clad in camouflage fatigues, he is strapped into a Plexiglas framework hinged at his elbows, hips, and other joints to follow his movements. He kneels, stretches, and casts menacing glances around a machine shop ... |
