Parenting is tough to begin with, but add a smartphone-using, texting, emailing and Internet-surfing teen on top of that, and there’s a whole new set of digital rules…
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How Steve Brown is preparing African American Youth to be tech leaders of tomorrow
by Cairo QweenWith education reform initiatives in the U.S. pushing for more S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering, & mathematics) programs, one Atlanta company is answering the call. S.T.E.M. STARS, an Atlanta based firm founded…
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Google Politics: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Calls On Politicians To Abandon Political Parties Google Co-Founder, Sergey Brin, made a call to America’s politicians today: he pleaded for them to denounce…
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A new video has surfaced online providing a glimpse of what Apple’s long-rumored television, the iTV, could bring to our living rooms this winter. The video, created by software engineer,…
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Amazon ‘Storyteller’ Lets You Turn Your Scripts Into Moving Visual Storyboards
Amazon has launched Amazon Storyteller, a tool to automatically create visualizations of screenplays so that they can be more readily pitched. The somewhat self-serving beta at Amazon Studios promises to analyze…
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Cocaine addicts may soon have a ‘cure’ for their unhealthy dependence: researchers have successfully created a vaccine that prevents cocaine particles from reaching the brain and inducing feelings of…
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Ex-cop builds a humanoid robot called HEX made from electrical appliances The self-taught robot maker spent over two decades in police force in Baltimore Walking…
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Just 7 years ago only 15% of the continent of Africa had mobile service.Today Africa is a new land of opportunity for the mobile phone market. Africa is the…
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Forest Whitaker’s Non Profit Aims to Stabilize African Regions Thru Technology
What defines something as “peaceful”? The absence of war, for one, is a pretty obvious element. Respect, generosity and open-mindedness make sense too. But it takes more than just understanding…