Internet use in class tied to lower test scores: study
Warning: Surfing the internet in class is now linked to poorer test scores, even among the most intelligent and motivated of students.
Warning: Surfing the internet in class is now linked to poorer test scores, even among the most intelligent and motivated of students.
Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2016
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(Phys.org)—The latest hacker enthusiast who is out to demonstrate Raspberry Pi's potential has a system that pairs SiriProxy with Raspberry Pi to perform numerous home automation feats, just by speaking commands into the ...
Researchers at Yale and the Smithsonian Institution say it's time to settle a very old food fight.
Evolution
Mar 18, 2016
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in South Korea and one from the U.S. has found evidence that Arctic sea ice in the summer could vanish sooner than climate models suggest. In their paper published ...
When Congress voted in March to reverse rules intended to protect Internet users' privacy, many people began looking for ways to keep their online activity private. One of the most popular and effective is Tor, a software ...
Security
Jun 2, 2017
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A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.
Computer Sciences
Aug 10, 2011
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Google on Tuesday began warning some users of its popular Internet search service that their computers may be infected with a virus.
Internet
Jul 20, 2011
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(AP) -- A California company claims that the Internet-filtering software China has mandated for all new personal computers sold there contains stolen programming code.
Software
Jun 13, 2009
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(AP) -- Some websites, including ones with pornography, that were previously blocked by China's Internet censors were accessible inside the country Friday, though reasons for the change were unclear.
Internet
Jun 4, 2010
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Word of the opening of Iran's blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the same sites Tuesday chewed over the sobering reality ...
Internet
Sep 17, 2013
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