Avi Flombaum taught himself to code as a kid. But it was an isolating experience. That’s one reason he co-founded the Flatiron School, a 12-week coding academy designed for students without any coding experience. Through good teaching and perseverance, he thinks anyone can fall in love with and master the skill. Continue reading
Avi Flombaum started teaching himself HTML and CSS when he was in fifth grade, in 1995. Three years later, he designed a website for his local YMCA. Today, he’s the co-founder and dean of the Flatiron School, a 12-week coding academy. All the while, though, he’s had to confront parents skeptical of his coding and entrepreneurial ambitions. Continue reading
No fanfare. No cleverly contrived quote for the history books. And yet, at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969, three months after Neil Armstrong’s famous step, came another giant leap for mankind. Just months after the first manned moon … Continue reading
After a rocky day in the markets, Apple computer began their quarterly earnings call and announced historically high numbers. Continue reading
The computer chip is getting a makeover from the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry at Oregon State University, making it leaner, faster and greener. Continue reading
USB devices, commonly used to copy, store and share data, have also been known as a prime place to carry malware, or malicious software, from one computer to another. But that’s not the end of the story: researchers argue that USB security breaches don’t just originate from bad software, but from the fundamental core of how memory sticks function .
A piece of computing history has arrived in New York, and is due to go up for auction on Thursday.
Sony debuted a new tape format Sunday at the International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, Germany that can hold 148 gigabytes of data per square inch; shattering a previous magnetic tape record of 29.5 gigabytes. If packed into a cartridge, a single cassette tape would be capable of holding 185 terabytes of storage — equal to the capacity of 3,700 Blu-ray discs. That’s more than 46 million songs if you wanted to store MP3s. Continue reading
In Oakland, not far from Silicon Valley, a small group of teenagers are glued to their computer screens, learning a new language. The Hidden Genius Project is a small non-profit that’s working to teach computer coding to young African-American men and bring them into the high tech sector — one of the few parts of the economy that’s booming and aching for diversity. Aarti Shahani of KQED reports. Continue reading