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MIT invents computer that runs away
MIT has taken the unfriendly computer interface to its natural conclusion: and created a computer that runs away from you. We’ve all had experiences with user interface elements that run away from us: toolbars in Windows, or the drive icons on the Mac OS X desktop, for example. But “Clocky” goes all the way –…
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Should iPods carry health warnings?
An Australian head teacher has banned pupils from bringing their iPods into school, because they encourage social isolation. “People were not tuning into other people because they’re tuned into themselves,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald. As we noted this week, all kinds of fascinating social possibilities elude the iPodder. Music is a social activity, but the children…
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How computers make kids dumb
A study of 100,000 pupils in 31 countries around the world has concluded that using computers makes kids dumb. Avoiding PCs in the classroom and at home improved the literacy and numeracy of the children studied. The UK’s Royal Economic Society finds no ground for the correlation that politicans make between IT use and education. The authors,…
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New Microsoft Longhorn chief is indigestion expert
Microsoft has a new star hire to head up its Longhorn project, Mike Sievert. And he brings a deeper and richer personal experience to the job than many of his marketing counterparts in the technology industry. Sievert took up the post of Corporate VP for Windows Product Management, to give him his full title, at…