120 étudiants du campus de l’Université du tampon s’apprêtent à bûcher sur leurs examens, ce vendredi, à partir de 10 heures. Des examens qui se feront pour la première fois sur des tablettes numériques pour les étudiants de 2e et 3e année de médecine. 
Si les téléphones et appareils numériques sont d’ordinaire interdits lors des sessions d’examens, les tablettes tactiles mises à disposition des étudiants sont réglées de manière spécifique. Voir l'article...

By Mark Guzdial. Google is going to take a lot of heat for these low numbers, but let’s not forget how long the computing industry has hidden and actively protected its diversity numbers. Kudos to Google for coming forward! Now, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook? (Thanks to Rick Adrion for sending me this link.)  And then let’s get to work on making this better. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users
Mitchell, Mozilla Blog, May 29, 2014
One of the reason content companies have been creating their own browsers is to be able to implement in-browser digital rights management (DRM) instead of relying on plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight. More...

By Brian Mathews. I’ve enjoyed using Google Glass. It connected me with faculty in new ways—from pedagogical experiments and brainstorming about research and instructional needs, to serving on panel discussions and informal talks about applying technology in new ways. More...

By Barbara Fister. I’ve been meaning to read the New York Times’s Innovation Report, the one that was leaked to Buzzfeed just as its first woman editor was being fired. (I don’t know enough about the circumstances of that change in editorial leadership to comment on its wisdom, but the public humiliation of Jill Abramson was excruciating to watch and not befitting the dignity of a major newspaper.)  Yesterday, Joshua Kim reminded me of my intention. After all, it's called, by the Neiman Journalism Lab, “one of the key documents of this media age.” Read more...

By Eric Stoller. Before I became an acolyte for a certain "fruit company," I was a PC/Windows guy. One of my first summer jobs involved doing work with a computer that was running Windows 3.1. When my parents purchased a desktop computer with Windows 95 (a replacement for our Commodore 64), I spent hours playing games, digging around the file system, and "surfed (crawled)" the Internet via a 14.4 modem. The high school library had a computer lab in it that featured Apple computers. I wasn't interested. Windows was what I knew. More...

By Joshua Kim. Who among us in not excited by Google’s driverless electric car?
No steering wheel. No break pedal. No gas pedal. No gear shift. You do get a start button and a panic button.
I think that it is great that Google is building these driverless cars.  34,000 people die every year in car crashes, which although down from a high of 54,589 in 1972 is still a level of carnage that boggles the mind. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. I’m getting ready to send Audible, owned by Amazon, another $229.50.  
Giving Audible these dollars today will mean that I can buy my audiobooks at $9.56 each.  
This is a good deal.  
The selection of audibooks on Audible is growing quickly. Read more...