Prodigy Learning, a Dublin-headquartered education technology firm, has announced the opening of its new office in New York City. It was founded 20 years ago and presently has offices in Dublin, London and Sydney. The ...
Coursera, the online learning platform is planning to offer job-relevant online courses for university students, alumni and faculty. This will be made possible by the tech’s major initiative, Coursera for Campus, which is designed to ...
The annual Educause conference will be held from October 14-17 in Chicago, USA. Educause is a US-based nonprofit association advancing higher education through the use of IT. The main focus of this year’s conference will ...
A study conducted by the University of Louisville has discovered that robots can help autistic children with their emotions and behaviour in the classroom. In order to study the impact of robots on autistic children, ...
Doll-making giant Mattel, Inc. who designs Barbie dolls, have partnered with the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch their Barbie Dream Gap Project, to create dolls resembling a female astronaut. This is a step towards ...
In an attempt to get the hardware out of the way of the perfect virtual world experience, FaceBook has announced how Oculus Quest will use hand-tracking technology to control VR-based multimedia content. This will ensure ...
Google Translate is a great tool for a global society like ours, where multilingualism is very much a part of the contemporary culture. The free app easily translates content from one language to the other, ...
Second Sight, the US-based developer of implantable visual prosthetics, has upped the development and commercialization of its Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System (“Orion”), a product that the potential to provide useful artificial vision to the ...
Amid privacy violation allegations earlier this year, Facebook has launched a new series of more secure Portal devices. The first difference noted by CNET’s Senior Editor Megan Wollerton is that the display can auto-rotate from ...
Following the $5 billion penalty on Facebook for privacy violations earlier this year, the United States Federal Trade Commission hit Google with a record $170 million penalty for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ...