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Christopher Brown Associate professor, University of Texas at Austin, writes:Researchers have demonstrated that five-year-olds are spending more time engaged in teacher-led academic learning activities than play-based learning opportunities that facili… Continue reading Kindergarteners Today Get Little Time To Play, and It’s Stunting Their Development
An anonymous reader writes: The UK faces a potential economic backlash from its decision to exit the European Union, but London Mayor Sadiq Khan doesn’t think tech startups should be worried. Khan on Monday stopped in New York while on a goodwill tour … Continue reading London To Tech Startups: Please Don’t Mind the Brexit Gap
The Tiangong-1, China’s prototype space station which was launched in September 2011, is no longer under the control of China. PopularMechanics reports: China’s Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years now, but recently i… Continue reading China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth
Steve Kovach, writing for Business Insider:Comcast plans to launch its own wireless service in 2017, CEO Brian Roberts said at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia conference Tuesday. Since Comcast doesn’t have its own cell towers, it’ll rely on WiFi network… Continue reading Comcast Will Launch a Wireless Service Next Year
SanDisk has a new SD card which caught our attention today: a prototype card with a storage of 1TB of memory. The company says that 1TB card is necessary as we increasingly move to the world where more and more content in 4K and 8K become available. ZD… Continue reading SanDisk’s 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems
People born without sight appear to solve math problems using visual areas of the brain. NPR has a fascinating report on this: A functional MRI study of 17 people blind since birth found that areas of visual cortex became active when the participants w… Continue reading When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain’s Visual Areas Light Up
The gig economy is built on people offering their services on demand. Now more of them will have the option of getting paid just as quickly, reports Bloomberg. From the report: Care.com Inc., Instacart Inc., Postmates Inc. and several other marketplace… Continue reading More Gig Economy Workers Can Now Get Paid On Demand
Twitter is finally relaxing its 140-character limit. The company announced today that it will now don’t count things like emojis, images against the 140-character limit. Adding quotes, polls, videos will also no longer reduce your characters. From a re… Continue reading Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, GIFs, Videos Toward 140-Character Limit
Now this may surprise some: 4K Ultra HD televisions are expected to double sales to 15 million units in the U.S. in 2016, and the next-generation TVs are now being adopted at a faster rate than predecessor high-definition TVs. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray playe… Continue reading 4K UHD TVs Are Being Adopted Faster Than HDTVs
Oracle has unveiled its second generation of cloud infrastructure for third-party developers to run their applications in Oracle data centers. What is interesting about the announcement is that Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellis… Continue reading Larry Ellison Says ‘Amazon’s Lead is Over’ As Oracle Unveils New Cloud Infrastructure