Education Stories for 2016

How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar 236
Did Google.org Steal the Christmas Spirit? 103
Mozilla Will Support Firefox For XP and Vista Until At Least September 2017 73
The Linux Foundation Offers 50% Discounts On Training 39
US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change 534
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory 165
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? 204
Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students 74
Information Overload No Problem For Most Americans: Survey 75
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code 135
White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More 280
Tech Billionaires Award Top Scientists $25 Million In 'Breakthrough' Prizes 56
Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda 89
Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash 137
O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% 47
Has The 'Hour of Code' Turned Into a Giant Corporate Infomercial? 88
Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language 69
US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds 105
A Computer Program Has Ranked the Most Influential Brain Scientists of the Modern Era 39
UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks 108
Teachers 'Unwittingly' Spying On School Children With Surveillance Software 76
Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew In Virtual Reality 41
Google's DeepMind AI Plans To Take On StarCraft II 75
Interviews: Ask American Author and Entrepreneur Seth Godin a Question 67
CloudFlare Can Be Ordered To Disclose Science Piracy Website Owner Details 55
Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? 435
How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program 255
Let Researchers Try New Paths 116
Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns 647
'Picat' Programming Language Creators Surprised With A $10,000 Prize 63
BBC Micro Bit Mini-Computer To Expand Internationally With New Hardware 40
CIA-Backed Surveillance Tool 'Geofeedia' Was Marketed To Public Schools 41
Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return 813
Baby Boomers Don't Have a Stronger Work Ethic Than Later Generations, Says Study 326
Sprint To Provide 1 Million Students With Free Internet, Mobile Devices 65
Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. 370
Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights 50
Teens' Penchant For Risk-Taking May Help Them Learn Faster, Says Study 37
New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom 170
The Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Their 26th First Annual Awards Ceremony 37
How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions 334
Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded 81
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Announce $3 Billion Initiative To 'Cure All Diseases' 161
Kindergarteners Today Get Little Time To Play, and It's Stunting Their Development 228
Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft In the War Over Classrooms 55
Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds 241
Laurene Jobs Awards $10M To Pet Charter School Network of Zuckerberg, Gates 51
Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock 199
Stephen Wolfram Reveals Ambitious Plan to Teach Computational Thinking 76
New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes 75
Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs 87
Smartphones Can Steal 3D Printing Plans By Listening To The Printer 45
University of California's Outsourcing Is Wrong, Says US Lawmaker 338
University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers 618
ITT Tech Is Officially Closing 420
Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans 81
US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold 112
Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research 201
Google's DeepMind To Apply AI In Head and Neck Cancer Treatments 17
Now Arriving On the New York Subway: Free E-Books, Timed For Your Commute 44
Belgians Are Hunting Books, Instead Of Pokemon 38
Princeton Researchers Announce Open Source 25-Core Processor 114
Four Code Bootcamps Are Now Eligible For Government Financial Aid 85
Scammers Use Harvard Education Platform to Promote Pirated Movies 27
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology 282
Satellite Images Can Map Poverty 120
From Now On You'll Be Able To Access NASA Research For Free 64
Billionaire Launches Free Code College in California 187
Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? 140
8 Paralyzed Patients Learn To Walk Again Using Virtual Reality 17
Bill Gates Has Spent $1+ Million To Get Mark Zuckerberg's Software In Schools 105
University Collects Medical Samples Via Drones In Madagascar 20
Immigration Attorneys: Industry Pushes Foreign Labor, Claiming 'US Students Can't Hack It In Tech' 472
Positive Link Between Video Games and Academic Performance, Study Suggests 100
Ask Slashdot: What Should a Children's Computer Museum Look Like? 133
Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb 319
Seymour Papert, Creator of the Logo Language, Dies At 88 68
Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young 373
The Mojave Desert: Home of the New Machine Movement 48
AT&T Violated Rule Requiring Low Prices For Schools, FCC Says 58
E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study 312
Tech Takes Its K-12 CS Education and Immigration Crisis To the DNC 118
NIST Prepares To Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication 150
Auto Industry Publishes Its First Set of Cybersecurity Best Practices 38
Large Source Of Hydrogen Gas May Lie Near Slow-Spreading Tectonic Plates Under The Ocean 79
Amazon Wants To Sell You Everything, Including Student Loans 49
Researchers Develop Atomic-Scale Hard Drive That Writes Information Atom By Atom 68
Coursera Relaunches Classic Computer Science Courses 17
Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? 351
Alzheimer's Gene Already Shrinking Brain By Age of Three 62
145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' 360
Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers 360
Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? 387
First Water Clouds Reported Outside The Solar System 41
Researchers Develop A Way To Stop Ransomware By Watching The Filesystem 102
Researchers Add Software Bugs To Reduce the Number of Software Bugs 73
UW, Microsoft Successfully Encoded 200MB of Data Onto Synthetic DNA Molecules 46
Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris 127
The Fight To Save the Australian Digital Archive Trove 87
New York Falls and Seattle Rises on 'America's Top Tech Cities' List 100
Microsoft President Brad Smith: Computer Science Is Space Race of Today 171
ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 76
Clinton Tech Plan Reads Like Silicon Valley Wish List 355
Google Launches 'Project Bloks' Toys To Teach Kids To Code 54
Amazon Unveils Inspire Online Education Service For Teachers and Schools 32
New 'Civilization' Game Will Be Sold To Schools As An Educational Tool 198
Google Launches Android Programming Course For Absolute Beginners 98
Google To Offer Better Medical Advice When You Search Your Symptoms 104
California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip 205
Bill Gates' Donation of Thousands of Chickens Rejected by Bolivia 317
Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? 262
Finnish Scientist Provides Another Explanation For The 'Impossible' EM Drive 299
38 Community Colleges Launch Entire Degree Programs With Open Educational Resources 48
Coursera Commits 'Cultural Vandalism' As Old Platform Shuts 119
Scientists Amplify Light Using Sound On a Silicon Chip 21
Apple Introduces Swift Playgrounds App To Teach Kids To Code 73
Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future 342
Microsoft Makes Minecraft Education Edition Available To Schools 32
Disadvantaged Students Stay In College If They're Told Everyone Struggles 206
Researchers Turn Smartphone Vibration Motor Into Microphone To Spy On You 77
Password Autocorrect Without Compromising Security 140
Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? 515
BBC Micro:Bit Learn-To-Code Device Up For Public Pre-Order In UK 36
Computer Generates Largest Math Proof Ever At 200TB of Data 143
Google Scholar Users Report Badly Malfunctioning Captcha 131
Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade 352
ForcePhone App Uses Ultrasonic Tone To Create Pressure-Sensitive Batphone 48
All European Scientific Articles To Be Freely Accessible By 2020 76
American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong 369
Google's 'Science Journal' App Turns Your Android Device Into A Laboratory 29
Judge Orders 'Intentionally Deceptive' DOJ Lawyers To Take Remedial Ethics Class 185
Google Is A Serial Tracker 110
Google's Tensor Processing Unit Could Advance Moore's Law 7 Years Into The Future 86
Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test 819
Iraq Shuts Down Internet In Entire Country To Prevent Exam Cheating 92
Theoretical Breakthrough Made In Random Number Generation 152
Girls From Progressive Societies Do Better At Math, Study Finds 280
Amazon "Invades" College Campus With Media Center 59
Anonymous Begins Teaching Hacktivism on IRC 52
Brazilian Devs Launch Tiny $1 STEM-Oriented Microcontroller Board On Indiegogo 83
Disney Research Leverages RFID Tech For Low Cost Interactive Games With Physical Objects 18
Professor Surprises Students With AI Teacher Assistant 85
Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level 125
'I Know How To Program, But I Don't Know What To Program' 255
Facebook Open-Sources Capture the Flag Competition Platform As It Encourages Students 13
This Unusual Botnet Targets Scientists, Engineers, and Academics 67
Uganda, Where a Book Can Cost a Month's Salary 102
Opera Launches 'Free And Unlimited' VPN App For iOS 23
Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations 512
Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe 102
Sci-Hub Faces Millions Of Dollars In Damages, Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Domain 56
Students Can Now Fly Drones At School, FAA Says 86
Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion 386
Uber Plans To Kill Surge Pricing With Machine Learning 95
Prince Quietly Helped Launch a Coding Program For Inner City Youth 172
Taking a 'Gap Year' Before College Is a British Tradition That's Becoming a Big Trend In The US 256
Novel Model Illustrates The Finer Details Of Nuclear Fission 43
China Probes Baidu Over False Medical Ads After Student Dies 41
3 Years Ago, Microsoft Said Tech Should Fund K-12 CS Education. What Changed? 102
Robots Battle In 25th Annual FIRST Competition 26
CV of Failures: Princeton Professor Publishes Resume of His Career Lows 51
Nvidia GPU-Powered Autonomous Car Teaches Itself To See And Steer 54
Top Silicon Valley Execs and Others Urge Congress To Fund K-12 Computer Science Education 125
Schools Are Helping Police Spy On Kids' Social Media Activity 215
Jihadis Twice As Likely To Be Students of Science Than Of Sharia 201
The Android Administration: Google's Relationship With the Obama White House 47
CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access 60
Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' 822
Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Speed Reading? 207
New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals At Once 33
After 150 Years, the American Productivity Miracle Is 'Over' 431
Microsoft Sending Minecraft To Summer School 40
UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors 340
Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' 434
Golden State and the Mathematical Magic of Seventy-Three 102
Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People 406
Medium, Twitter Founder on Media: We Put Junk Food In Front Of Them and They Eat It 123
Microsoft and HackerRank Add a Live Code Editor Into Bing 34
Top US Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Skip Cybersecurity Classes 173
Now Streaming: How To Do a Kidney Transplant 64
High Schoolers Use Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor To Dominate Science Fairs 126
Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere 185
The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman 269
Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests 153
GE's Move To Boston Could Revive Local Tech Business Ambitions 86
Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students 135
The Spread of Ignorance 416
CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise 73
Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' 642
Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US 70
Ocean Temps Predict US Heat Waves 50 Days Out, Study Finds 62
Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages 390
Why Learning To Code Won't Save Your Job 155
Supercomputers Help Researchers Improve Severe Hail Storm Forecasts 23
Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time 281
One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers 157
Students' Experiments To Fly By Glider To the Edge of Space 55
Facebook Exec Explains Why Technical Skills Aren't Enough To Be a Great Engineer 188
How Many Digits of Pi Does NASA Use? 174
South Korea Commits $863 Million To AI Research After AlphaGo 'Shock' 67
Neural Mechanisms In Mouse Brains Indicate We Actively Forget As We Learn 25
Alibaba To Train a Million Youngsters In E-commerce 32
Should All Research Papers Be Free? 191
Personalized Learning: the Best Education Or the Worst? 143
Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem 173
Why Do We Work So Hard? 282
Code.org Hacked, Emails and Locations Data of Volunteers Compromised 33
Amazon Working On Education Platform To Offer Free Learning Materials 20
New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams 394
Raspberry Pi 3 Is a Nice Upgrade, But Alternatives Exist With Faster Performance 287
$500K NSF Grant Boosted Girls' CS Participation At Obama Daughters' $37K/Yr HS 187
Mindfulness Meditators Are Less Affected By Virtual Reality 86
Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 203
Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents 309
Raspberry Pi 3 Brings Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 97
Leap Days May Be Going Away In the Not Too Distant Future 165
Linguistics Could Help Future Driverless Cars Cooperate Better 27
America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges 385
Chicago Public Schools Make Computer Science a Requirement For a HS Diploma 209
New Fast Radio Burst Discovery Finds 'Missing Matter' In the Universe 38
President Obama Nominates New Librarian of Congress Who Supports Open Access 188
Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze 182
Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor 335
Neuroscientists Detail How Humans Are Able To Hurt Others When Given Orders 162
X Prize and IBM Announce $5 Million Artificial Intelligence Competition 18
3D-Printed Ear Comes To Life After Implantation In Mice 25
New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us 127
Scientists Propose Using Cold War Era Weapons To Deflect Asteroids 114
Why Some Cities Get All the Good Jobs 226
Harvard: Prospective CS50 AP Teachers Must cc:Microsoft On Training Applications 79
Brown CS Department Hiring Student Diversity, Inclusion Advocates 178
US Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia To Remove the Diary of Anne Frank 178
Our Hidden Neanderthal DNA May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression 134
Interviews: Ask Author and Programmer Andy Nicholls About R 187
Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s 119
An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. 218
Massive Layoffs Hit University of Copenhagen 173
Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? 158
K-12 CS Framework Draft: Kids Taught To 'Protect Original Ideas' In Early Grades 132
John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 669
Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools 246
Ask Slashdot: Learning Robotics Without Hardware? 78
Interview: Ask CEO Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Online Education 55
Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? 238
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 76
2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma 510
How Have Large Donations Affected Education Policy In New York City? 37
Google Launches Free Course On Deep Learning 16
Stephen Wolfram: No Need To Teach With 'Toy Programming Languages' Like Scratch 214

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