The Fujitsu laptop concept, that also incorporates a tablet, phone and camera. Dubbed the Lifebook and seen as a concept from 2013, this original unit is what they call a modular device. You can detach its camera and use it…
Category: Education
An AppDay mentor helps out a budding coder with her programming skills. It’s no secret that Washington is falling behind when it comes to educating our future techs. While the state ranks fourth in the nation for tech-related companies, Washington comes in…
“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.” Every year since 1998, intellectual impresario and Edge editor John Brockman has been posing a single grand…
Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Their technology enables their partners to teach millions of students rather than hundreds. Classes…
NBC Southern California – The National Institutes of Health awarded UCLA a grant to study the genetic causes of autism in African American children. Areva Martin of the Special Needs Network says “there’s a void” of qualified health care officials…
PHOTO: High school senior Chelesa Fearce, 17, has overcome homelessness to become a star student and valedictorian at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga. (ABC News) When 17-year-old valedictorian Chelesa Fearce stands before her Georgia high school graduating class…
Meet nine-year-old Asean Johnson. He is a third grader at Marcus Garvey Elementary and this won’t be the last time you see him. Amid the chaos of three days of protests regarding Chicago school closures, a pint-size public speaking star was born…