Technology News
Mobile Phones: Africa is the fastest growing market in the world
late 2012, the World Association of Telecom operators said that sub-Saharan Africa has become since 2000, the most growing market in mo...
Are Cellular Phones Tricorders?
This article will profile the logical progression of mobile technologies such as the cellular phone toward ubiquitous, multipurpose de...
African tech start-ups dream of Silicon Savannah
Young techies hunched over laptops in small offices across Africa want to create their own versions of California's Silicon Valley and ...
Technology: Robots invade the streets of Kinshasa
The giant robotic policemen are preventing accidents – and racketeering by dishonest officials.
Drivers in gridlocked Kinshasa want th...
Samsung: Smart homes arriving ‘at speed we can barely imagine’
At the IFA electronics show, CEO Boo-Keun Yoon promised safer, healthier, and more energy-efficient homes and said the transformation w...
New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program
The New York City Police Department will begin equipping a small number of its officers with wearable video cameras, a pilot program ge...
Are EHRs Life Savers? Maybe So, According to Preliminary Research
Can the adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) be tied to hospital performance and lowered mortality rates? Wh...
Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans achieved for the first time
A team of researchers has successfully achieved brain-to-brain human communication using non-invasive technologies across a distance of...
Grading Teachers, With Data From Class
Halfway through the last school year, Leila Campbell, a young humanities teacher at a charter high school in Oakland, Calif., received ...
Super Cheap Windows Devices Emerge At IFA
Asus, Acer, and Toshiba announce some of the most affordable Windows devices ever at the IFA trade show in Berlin, with prices as low a...