Technology May 2018

Facebook Plans Digital Training Partnership In New Mexico [Education News]

Facebook plans to partner with Central New Mexico Community College to establish a certificate program in digital marketing, the social media giant announced Monday. Marne Levine — chief operating officer for Instagram, a social media platform owned by Facebook — told people gathered for a small-business training event in Albuquerque that the certificate program will help participants add marketable skills to their resume.

Technology April 2018 Premium

NYU Professor Launches Mobile App to Promote Bilingualism in Hispanic Children

NYU Steinhardt Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology Dr. Natalie Brito launched, Háblame Bebé, a free educational mobile application for iOS and Android operating systems, which provides Spanish-speaking parents with the tools to engage with their infants and toddlers in both English and Spanish with the goal of developing early bilingual learners and reducing the ‘word gap’ in low-income Hispanic children.

Technology April 2018

Zuckerberg: Regulation Of Social Media Firms Is 'Inevitable' [Beyond Education]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a House oversight panel Wednesday that he believes it is "inevitable" there will be regulation of the social media industry and also disclosed to lawmakers that his own data was included in the personal information sold to malicious third parties.

Technology April 2018

Facebook users to learn if they were part of privacy scandal [Beyond Education]

Get ready to find out if your Facebook data has been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a detailed message on their news feeds. Facebook says most of the affected users (more than 70 million) are in the U.S., though there are over a million each in the Philippines, Indonesia and the U.K.

Technology March 2018

Apple Aims To School Rivals With New iPad, Education Apps

Apple wants to play a more prominent role in education, but it isn't willing to cut prices to make the grade. Instead, Apple is clinging to a thesis that has helped turn it into the world's most valuable company: Our products are more expensive, but they're worth it.

Technology March 2018

Apple Looks To Return To Head Of Class In Education Market [Education News]

Apple is hoping to return to the head of the class in the competition to get high-tech products into U.S. classrooms. The trend-setting company is expected to provide more details about its renewed emphasis on education Tuesday at a Chicago high school.

Technology March 2018

How Facebook Was Able To Siphon Off Phone Call And Text Logs [Beyond Education]

The news that Facebook's Android app has been collecting call and text histories is yet another black eye for the social media giant. But just why was Facebook able to siphon off records of who its users were contacting — and when — in the first place? The short answer: Because Google let it. The longer answer: Well, it's complicated.

Technology March 2018

Northwestern Joins Big Ten Universities To Launch Joint Cybersecurity Operations Center

Indiana University (IU), Northwestern University, Purdue University, Rutgers University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced the launch and activation of OmniSOC, a specialized, sector-based cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) that provides trusted, rapid, actionable cyber intelligence to its members. The OmniSOC is designed to reduce the time from first awareness of a cybersecurity threat anywhere to mitigation everywhere for members.

Technology March 2018

Academic Says He's Being Scapegoated In Facebook Data Case [Education And Beyond]

An academic who developed an app used by Cambridge Analytica to harvest data from millions of Facebook users said Wednesday he had no idea his material would be used in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Alexandr Kogan, a psychology professor at Cambridge University, said that Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have tried to place the blame on him for violating the social media platform's terms of service.

Technology March 2018

Self-Driving Uber Vehicle Strikes And Kills Pedestrian In Arizona [Beyond Education]

A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle — a crash that could have far-reaching consequences for the new technology. The fatality Sunday night in Tempe was the event many in the auto and technology industries were dreading but knew was inevitable.

Technology March 2018 Premium

Cancer ‘vaccine’ Eliminates Tumors

Activating T cells in tumors eliminated even distant metastases in mice, Stanford researchers found.

Technology March 2018 Premium

COSMOS Summer, Science And Life-Changing Possibilities by <b> Sylvia Mendoza </b>

Landing her dream job as a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Los Angeles, Gabriela Bernaldino came full circle. In ten years, she’d come home from UC San Diego with degrees in hand, a career she is passionate about and gratitude for a speaker who came into her high school chemistry honors class, changing the course of her life.

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Sylvia Mendoza