As part of its ongoing efforts to combat cybercrime, the NSA has developed new cyber-ops training programs at a handful of US universities. According to a report from Reuters, the agency has begun Continue reading…
MaKey MaKey is a new and extremely simple circuit board that lets you turn any surface into an input device for your computer, meaning you can create your very own set of piano stairs, a banana Continue reading…
May has been a particularly rocky month for Yahoo since it came to light that CEO Scott Thompson was misrepresenting his educational background, falsely claiming to hold a computer science degree from Continue reading…
The New York City Department of Education issued new guidelines this week that warn public schoolteachers against contacting their students via social networking websites. The city's code of conduct (P Continue reading…
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have this morning announced a "strategic partnership" on e-reading, focused on the creation of a new B&N subsidiary that will spin off that company's digital and College Continue reading…
Interphase has just announced Penveu — a handheld device capable of converting any flat surface into an interactive display. Set to debut at this week's DEMO 2012 event in Santa Clara, California, Continue reading…
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program started shipping its affordable and durable computers to students in developing countries back in 2007, and since then well over a million have been deployed to Continue reading…
Online universities aren't exactly new, but an upcoming school called the Minerva Project isn't just trying to bring classes online — it wants to compete with the Harvards and Yales of the world. Continue reading…
The US hasn't been shy about its desire to bring digital textbooks to the classroom, and a new analysis from the FCC shows that doing so could save close to $3 billion annually. Based on numbers from P Continue reading…
Do you think you can write a computer model to accurately score students' essays? If so, Kaggle (a platform for predictive modeling competitions) is hosting a $100,000 competition called the Automated Continue reading…
