The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published the 2024 Global Education Monitoring Report: Gender report – Technology on her terms in France in 2024. The report examines the impact of technology on girls' education opportunities and future technological development. It highlights ICT's potential to overcome educational barriers …
SATELLITE communication has become reality, crossing over from science fiction to emerge as the lifeblood of our times. The information superhighway - known better as the Internet - live television discussions, those essential cricket matches from countries halfway across the globe and a lot more could not have been possible …
Net goodies for free Internet will emerge as the communications medium of the next century, say the Netgurus. Many of us are used to services like Microsofts Hotmail at http.//-wwwhotmail.com, which provide free e-mail and file storage facilities through a web browser. But now Dixons, the biggest electronic retailer in …
LEARNING, by video conferencing can be just as effective as attending classes. Researchers at California's Silicon Valley, the fabled birthground of some of the world's top software, have compared the examination performance of students who met face-to-face with those who met over their video monitors. There were no differences between …
To make the world aware of the crisis, Bangladesh has I launched a website highlighting the century's worst floods, that ravaged the country this year. Bangladesh's flood " fact Album-1998 entitled "Century's, worst floods in Bangladesh", can be seen at www.bangladeshonline.coml gob/floods98. According to government officials, the website was being …
New converts Cheap air travel - and the Internet - make the world seem smaller by the day, but there are some people who still insist on using strange measurements, funny money and unintelligible ingredients. How many millilitres are there in a shtoff, for example? What do you do when …
WHEN Sharon Lopatha of Maryland, USA, disappeared in 1996, the police checked her home computer for clues. They learnt she had posted messages in a forum devoted to sexual sadism. Her body was found buried in the front yard of a man who browsed the same forum. In another instance, …
PLASTIC could soon form the heart of the "wired" home. According to American researchers, data for everything, from multichannel digital television to the Internet, could be channelled through cheap and easily-fitted optical fibres, and all because of an annoying effect that makes the substance useless for precision optics. Unlike glass, …
Radio revived Why limit your radio listening to national and local stations when there is a whole world of radio on the Internet? Thousands of radio stations around the world broadcast live to anyone with a fast connection to the Internet and the software to receive streaming audio. Some low-budget …
THEY say art imitates life and, occasionally, vice versa. Now we have technology, not imitating life, but listing it. And the technological wonder in question here is the all-pervasive Internet. Net experts say a complete list of the world's known 1.5 million species could be available on the World Wide …
Kid's stuff The Internet simply abounds with stuff that can interest almost everybody, regardless of their age and aptitude. Children, too, can have a jolly good time on the Net, provided they log on to the right Websites. A great place to begin is Yahooligans at http://www.yahooligans.com/. This is a …
LONELY? Depressed? Don't blame it on stress, work pressure or even physical ailments. It could be because of excessive use of the Internet, say researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. Studying the retreat of the human race indoors, researchers have found that too much time spent on …
WHEN it comes to writing reports, British Telecom's (BT's) research engineers have resorted to using Radar to make sure that their output is up-to-date and contains all references to relevant research. The Radar in question is a clever computer program named after the underdog character in MASH, the television comedy …
Look, up in the sky... No, it isn't Superman, It's an airship. And last month was the 160th anniversary of the birth of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the man who started a new era in air travel. His first airship took off in July 1900 at Lake Constance, on the …
Web grooves Over 14 years ago, more than a hundred companies agreed on a standard way for making music with computers - the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (Midi). Midi player software turns your computer into a virtual musical instrument, as music files tells it - or an electronic instrument connected …
Mama knows bestInformation, as we all know, is something that the Internet simply overflows with. The problem, once you are "surfing' through those gigabytes in cyberspace, is to find what you are actually looking for. There are programmes called "search engines' that help you do just that, though most of …
" dig deep', that must be the standing motto when it comes to archaeology. Travelling across the world to far-away excavation sites, salvaging ruins of ancient civilisations, unlocking the secrets of unknown or long-forgotten cultures
Springing into actionSpring is in. The birds are singing and the fragrance of the first blossoms has filled the air. So get ready with that rake to do some serious gardening this year. If you are curious to know what will grow in that patch in your lawn, but do …
The Internet is perhaps the next best thing after we discovered fire and invented the wheel. An astounding wealth of information on every subject under the Sun just waiting for a click of the mouse. Simply amazing. This time, we look at some of the sites on the world wide …
Radio gaga If you are curious about the history of radiology then you should not miss the site at http.//www.xray.hmc. psu.edu/rci/contents_4.html. This contains a philatelic history of radiology. Did you know that Marie Curie alone has appeared on stamps printed in Cameroon, North Korea and Dahomy (now Benin). The site …
IBM hopes to make Internet telephony more attractive. When personal computers (PCs) convert speech into data packets, two people can talk over the Internet. But there is no way of sending a ringing tone. The company's researchers in New York, USA, hope to alleviate this problem by adding voicemail. When …
