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Tech News: Exploding Pagers and Nuclear-Powered AI
Israel is allegedly behind an attack on Hezbollah involving exploding pagers. How did that happen? In other news, Microsoft wants to reopen a nuclear…
2 years ago
Social Networks and Mental Health
Is there a link between social media use and mental health challenges? We look at a meta-analysis and use some critical thinking to tackle the issue.…
2 years ago
Rerun: The Ghost in the Machine
What does "the ghost in the machine" mean? From philosophy to artificial intelligence, we explore this idiom to understand what it means, how it's us…
2 years ago
Tech News: AI Stalks Us on Friday the 13th
We've got a lot of stories about artificial intelligence to talk about this week. Plus, Xbox holds more layoffs, Sony announces a new PS5 model, and …
2 years ago
The One About Plasma Televisions
What happened to plasma televisions? Where did they come from? Let's learn how plasma TVs work and why the industry abandoned this technology.
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2 years ago
Smart Talks with IBM: Education in the Age of AI
The role of AI in the classroom is evolving rapidly. When students and teachers embrace this technology, it has the ability to democratize access to …
2 years ago
The Birth of Paypal
Today, Paypal is a 70+ billion dollar company, but how did it start out? And why are the founders sometimes referred to as the Paypal Mafia?
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2 years ago
Tech News: Brazil Ditches X and Russia Buys Some Influencers
Brazil's Supreme Court has shut down access to X after Elon Musk defied some questionable court orders. The US Department of Justice says that an Ame…
2 years ago
Abandoned Tech Projects
From Microsoft's dual-screened tablet concept to a holographic video game system, we take a look at some tech projects that died on the vine.
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2 years ago
What happened to Facebook's digital currency?
In 2019, Facebook (now Meta) announced it was developing a digital currency called Libra. Just a couple of years later, the project was dead in the w…
2 years ago