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19 April, 2014
The necessity of failure: Gaming as a metaphor for learning and living. Failure teaches you something, while success - or at least a lack of immediate failure - teaches you nothing. There is a deeper parallel here, though, beyond logic puzzles and video games. In life, during our seven or eight decades on this earth (good luck permitting), this is precisely how we learn, how we discover new things and find better ways to do old things. So remember that next time you're tempted to swear at your screen or throw your controller. Failure can be frustrating as hell, but it's making you a better player, just like failures in your life make you a better, smarter, and more capable person.
SINA Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, debuted on the Nasdaq exchange with a 19.1 per cent jump despite an IPO that went out undersubscribed and lower priced than hoped. In a spate of buying that suggested that Wall Street's waters are still welcoming to loss-making technology high flyers, and to Chinese firms as well
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Intercultural Understanding,
Social
17 April, 2014
Children can swipe a screen but can't use toy building blocks, teachers warn Teachers call for research into effects of tablet addiction amid concerns computer habits are hindering progress at school. Addressing the Association of Teachers and Lecturers conference in Manchester on Tuesday, Colin Kinney, a teacher from Northern Ireland, said excessive use of technology damages concentration and causes behavioural problems such as irritability and a lack of control.
16 April, 2014
When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications. But this month, we learned that Snowden used another technology to keep his communications out of the NSA’s prying eyes. It’s called Tails. And naturally, nobody knows exactly who created it.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Privacy
NBN Co hits 105 megabits per second in fibre-to-the-node trials. While FTTN technology is cheaper to deploy — as it avoids the high capital costs of the civil works needed to connect fibre directly to premises — it offers slower download and uploads speeds than Labor’s preferred fibre-to-the-premise rollout which is capable of delivering committed download speeds of 1000Mbps.
15 April, 2014
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