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Pandemic propels poor Mexican students into digital age
The coronavirus pandemic closed their school, but it also thrust a group of disadvantaged Mexican children living next to a giant garbage dump into the digital world.
Three of the world's iconic libraries are now home to computer code archives
GitHub launched an ambitious archiving programme so that future historians would have a better grasp of open-source projects designed by current and past developers.
Growth in user-generated content will drive VR market expansion, experts say
Leaders from the tech world shared a common message: The future durability of the VR market requires cultivating a user-base still in need of considerable development.
Virtual schooling in pandemic sharpens divide for Bolivia’s poor
For Sergio Meruvia, a 15-year-old student in Bolivia, staying up to date with school means selling hand sanitiser on the street to help pay for the expensive Internet services his family now needs to continue his classes.
Weather alerts at risk as Kenya’s radio stations struggle amid virus downturn
In these hills a two-hour drive north of Nairobi, the weather can shift quickly and sometimes violently, as recent landslides along the winding highway make clear.
World economy working from home gets a glimpse of the virtual future
The lockdown gripping much of the world economy has spurred a real-time stress test of the long-heralded digital future.
Even during lockdown, you can still take a walk through the Palace of Versailles.
If after weeks of isolation, your home is beginning to feel a little cooped up, it might be fun to explore some more generously proportioned interiors.
Covid-19: UN enlists tech firms to help 1.5 billion missing school
The UN's education agency said on March 26 it had forged a coalition with tech firms and nonprofit organisations to support more than 1.5 billion students missing class because of the coronavirus crisis.
Parents get crash course in 'distance learning' dilemmas
As millions of families hunker down amid the coronavirus crisis, the sudden reality of schooling from home risks widening the education gap between those with the means and support to keep up with lessons, and those who risk falling behind.
Covid-19: Online tutors boosting incomes as demand surges due to coronavirus lockdowns
Filipino teacher Raven Kate De Leon is in demand, spending up to 10 hours a day at her home computer surrounded by mini cars and stuffed toys that she uses as props to inject fun into her English classes for students far away in China.
