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Do the colleges need to reform? The question sparked interest in the student and teacher community in the middle of the discussion about how implementing the state standards by the teachers improve the state of readiness for college. From the commercial angle, many education companies put forward methods to augment the learning process. Education is a low paying investment option Knowing the latest methods, in education practices, do not show immediate results. Among the growth study patterns conducted recently, Education companies in United States did not show much increase in revenue. Those who wanted to make money invested in the sales and marketing side rather than on the education side. So much so, even pioneers in the education field like Udemy saw teachers upload classes that they sold for $20 - $100. There is a mind-set that favours more time for the teachers to collaborate. Given enough interaction opportunities, the teachers could get fresh ideas and share their thoughts on ...

A newly released report 5G report says China is currently the most ready followed by South Korea and then the United states. The report by CTIA notes though that many countries may be finally making the right investment to make this a reality. While much of the world is still reaping the benefits of the 4G, it looks like 5G promises more on return on investment. Take the United States for example, the report notes that the wireless industry is ready to pump in as much as $275 billion which they say could end up creating 3 million new jobs and another $500 billion to the nation’s GDP.                                                            While China leads the charge right now, it looks like its narrow but China is not one to back out from such a race as investment in technology has sky rocketed in the last decade alone. Research...

The United States and the United Kingdom have released a joint statement accusing the Russian government of maliciously targeting the global internet infrastructure for espionage purposes. In other words, Russia could be looking to engage in a cyber warfare that would see it divert most of the internet traffic for political and economic reasons. The statement by the U.S. (Homeland Security and the FBI) and the U.K"s. National Cyber Security Centre said the fundamental targets include public and private sector infrastructure. In an AP report , "Victims were identified through a coordinated series of actions between U.S. and international partners," according to a companion technical alert issued by the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT). Both nations have "high confidence" in the finding of Russian-sponsored cyber-meddling, which the alert said has been reported by multiple sources since 2015. The US-CERT said the compromised routers can be exploite...

As data protection and privacy becomes a big issue around the world, social networking companies like Instagram need to appropriately take care of the information its user’s share. One of the provisions of the UK"s upcoming Data Protection Bill would require companies to allow its users to easily move their data from one service to another. To that end, Facebook-owned Instagram just confirmed to TechCrunch that it is building a new data portability tool so users can download a copy of everything they"ve put on the platform , including photos, videos and messages , similar to how Facebook’s download your information tool works. The tool could help Instagram users monitor how much of their data is on the platform. It will also help Facebook, which owns Instagram, comply with the forthcoming European data privacy rule, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will require all data to be portable. The rule will also require companies to delete data upon user request. Fac...

Facebook Inc. CEO, Mark Zuckerberg told the Senate during his hearing that the case with Russia continually seeking means to exploit the social media platform is an "arms race" and this has resulted in the never-ending battle with the social network. The crises with Facebook include the issue with Russian agents using Facebook to influence the US 2016 election. While answering the questions about Cambridge Analytica"s exploitation, he revealed that Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigation Russia"s alleged meddling in the last election interviewed a staff member from Facebook. He maintained that his discussion with Mr. Mueller would remain confidential should he be interrogated. He said: " Our work with the special counsel is confidential and I want to make sure that in an open session, I"m not revealing something that"s confidential."    Two months ago, Mueller"s team had charged thirteen Russians of interference with the US electio...

Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance before the United States Senate on Tuesday to defend his company on the subject of regulating internet-based companies. He wass confronted with two significant challenges- How Facebook was unaware that users" information of 87 million people was harvested from his social media platform and abused by the political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica , and how Russia used the social network to spread false information during the 2016 U.S presidential elections. The Facebook boss testified before the Senate Commerce and the Judiciary Committees of 44 members of Senate. Senator Bill Nelson, the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, thinks that the format of the hearing will not give room for a thoughtful debate. " How in the world can you have 44 senators do a hearing that has a lot of substance when each senator only has four minutes? ", he queried. There have been agitations on what the outcome of this hearing would be. Facebook...

Mark Zuckerberg has advertised on full-page US and UK newspapers to apologise for the recent data scandal his platform has caused. He admitted doing wrongly, at least. He said that Facebook could have prevented their data from being exploited by the British political consulting firm in 2014. " This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry ," he said in the ads. This means more than one thing. First, it proves Dave Lee wrong. He had earlier argued that " contrition has never been Mr. Zuckerberg"s strong point " because he did not officially apologise to the staff members who had been entangled in the scandal and to the affected users whose data were exploited. Secondly, he could be keeping to the end of his bargain because the social media firm is currently running at a loss. Last week, the firm lost about five million dollars. Elon Musk deleted all his firm"s pages on Facebook, sparing only two- the Boring company and the AI firm which he co-owns. The BBC rep...

Recently, Facebook has been in the news for exploiting users" data without permission. A few days ago some privacy campaigners accused the social media of breaching data protection law. While the new rule by the legislation is yet to come into force, Facebook is under fire for aiding Donald Trump"s 2016 election campaign. The London-based firm, Cambridge Analytica is accused of breaching data rights by inappropriately collecting personal data of about 50million users on Facebook to influence the US election in 2016.  Political figures in the UK, Europe, and the US have requested that Facebook gives a vivid explanation on how the data on numerous users was produced. Both firms have denied any wrong-doing. Facebook says it will investigate Cambridge Analytica"s pages on its platform to determine how the data of millions of millions of users was harvested if they had been gathered unjustly and were still handy. Given this, the social media firm says it has hired a digital f...

After months of Uber’s self-driving car launch , an incident occurred today as a female pedestrian was killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Arizona. In response to the incident, Uber has pulled all of its self-driving cars from public roads in the state as well as in the cities of San Francisco, Toronto, and Pittsburgh. The crash occurred near Mill Avenue and Curry Road early Monday morning in Tempe, Arizona. Police confirmed that the Uber vehicle was headed to northbound while the woman was walking in a crosswalk when she was struck by the vehicle unnoticed and she was identified as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg by the police. This may be the first pedestrian to ever be killed in a self-driving vehicle accident. The vehicle was operating in an autonomous mode at the time of the accident. Herzberg was transported to a nearby hospital after the crash where she passed away from her injuries, according to a statement from Tempe police. Tempe police department stat...

The US government has indicted the CEO of Phantom Secure, Vincent Ramos alongside four associates on the account that they " knowingly and intentionally conspiring with criminal organisations by providing them with the technological tools to evade law enforcement and obstruct justice while committing transnational drug trafficking," the CNBC reported. Phantom Secure is a company that sells modified Blackberry and Samsung phones. The charges allege that the said company has generated about $80m annual revenue since 2008 and has obstructed justice and enhanced drug trafficking all over the world. With the modified encrypted phones, the messages became highly secured to help them evade justice. [caption id="attachment_10640" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The FBI has arrested the CEO of Phantom Secure, Vincent Ramos for knowingly "conspiring" with criminals [/caption] This investigation marks the first time the US law enforcement will cl...

[caption id="attachment_10588" align="alignnone" width="1280"]                      President Trump fired Rex Tillerson yesterday as the American Secretary of State via a tweet [/caption] This is not the first and probably wouldn"t be the last time for the President of the United states of America Donald Trump who officially fired the Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson at the State Department, via a tweet made on his official Twitter account early yesterday morning where he announced that Mike Pompeo, who is the current director of CIA would replace Rex Tillerson as the Secretary of state of the state department of the United states of America. [xyz-ihs snippet="Trump-Tillerson-tweet"] Before President Trump tapped him to lead the State Department, Rex Tillerson was the CEO and chairman of ExxonMobil for a little over a decade. His appointment was confirmed 53-46, with senators splitting mostly along party lines. His confirmation vot...

US President Donald Trump blocks Broadcom buyout of Qualcomm Looks like the big competition to Intel may not be happening after all as its shares jumped over 4%, hitting a record high of $53.76, Tuesday morning after US President Donald Trump blocked Broadcom’s proposed $117 billion buyout of Qualcomm . The arrangement would have made a noteworthy competitor for the chip maker. Intel, which generally has not been a noteworthy player in mobile chips, has been attempting to develop its essence in the fragment and even considered entering a contending offer for Qualcomm to fight off the risk of expanded rivalry. Citing national security concerns, President Donald Trump on Monday blocked a Singapore-based company from buying the American Qualcomm even as some accuse him of pushing his "protectionist" agenda forward in spite of concerns such moves could attract a retaliation from other countries.  In a White House website post , the US President said “There is credible evide...