[Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society.]
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today.
It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem,...
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Why look at a PowerPoint presentation about Mars in a science class when you can wander its red ridges and canyons?
A new virtual learning centre at Athabasca University in Alberta could take lessons a long way from the conventional classroom.
The distance-education school is hoping that cutting-edge video game technology can be used to sink students deep into what they're learning...
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First came desktop computers. Then laptops. Now, some argue the cellphone will eventually reign supreme as the preferred classroom computer.
JAKE STEVENS/DMNMarina Romanyuk (left), Amy Herman and Christina Mai (right) aren't text-messaging their friends on these cellphones. They are using them for their classwork.
At Keller's Trinity Meadows Intermediate School, a class of fifth-g...
FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 19 -- SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX), a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients, today announced it has won a three-year contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide program development, management and support for the National Center for Public Heal...
BOSTON (Reuters) - When her son Alex was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at the age of 10, Karen George was reluctant to put him on medication.
Instead, she enrolled him in a clinical trial designed to test the efficacy of a brain stimulation program made by Cogmed, a private company that uses computer programs to exercise parts of the brain responsible for short-t...
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• Bluetooth headsets for people with hearing aids.
• And, one of the most incredible, an edible computer chip made of vegetable matter that could be swallowed and allow a computer to monitor a variety of health conditions, like heart rate and blood pressure.
37: Percentage of Americans 65 or older who are online. In 2000, it was less than 20%. (By comparison, 75% of those ...