28/06/2013

Lessons at home and homework at school in US

When April Burton explains the intricacies of French grammar to her American classroom, the students are at home, in front of their computer or smartphone.

Chinese firm accused of stealing US software

(AP)—China's largest wind turbine company and three people are accused of trade secrets from a U.S. software company, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

NASA launches sun-watching satellite from US

(AP)—NASA launched a satellite late Thursday on a mission to explore a little-studied region of the sun and to better forecast space weather that can disrupt communications systems on Earth.

Low-power Wi-Fi signal tracks movement—even behind walls

The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects. Now we could all have X-ray vision, thanks to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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