The government is to scrap the teaching of the GCSE ICT curriculum in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming subjects.
Speaking at the education trade show BETT, education secretary Michael Gove said the current ICT curriculum is too off-putting, demotivating and dull….
The takedown of Megaupload and the gutting of SOPA have made for dramatic reading in the great copyright-versus-technology debate, but they may also mark a good time for that debate to change form.
Megaupload was the second-most popular ‘cyberlocker’ service, going by TorrentFreak’s rankings in August last year. Now it’s gone — not at the hands of the stalled SOPA and PIPA or any other new laws, but thanks to existing legislation, chiefly the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) and racketeering laws…
IBM scientists are testing a memory chip technology they claim can achieve data access speeds hundreds of thousands of times faster than traditional hard drives or flash disks.
The prototype chip consists of 256 cells, each consisting of a single magnetic nanowire, enabling information to be stored as magnetic patterns on the tiny wires, a fraction of a millimetre in size.
Magnetic read/write heads are used to create binary magnetic patterns to regions created when electric pulses are applied to the wires…
Seagate and Western Digital are drastically cutting the length of the warranties on many of their hard drives, leaving buyers with less protection if the products fail.
Both companies confirmed the move, which they had previously communicated to their distributors. Seagate is reducing warranties to as short as one year, while Western Digital will now guarantee its Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue drives for two years, as opposed to three.
BT will upgrade 178 telephone exchanges in a bid to ensure the government’s target of Europe’s best broadband network by 2015.
The upgrades will take broadband coverage to another 1.8 million homes, giving more than half the UK population access to broadband in 2012, according to The Telegraph…
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