2011-05-23 Is NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope a Time Machine?
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. If you could build a time machine, what would it look like? Maybe, it should look like a telescope. American scientists are…
2011-05-16 Scientists Develop Smartphone App for Eye Exams
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. More than two hundred eighty million people around the world have vision problems or are blind. The World Health Organization says nine…
2011-05-09 Sony Apologizes for Cyber Attack
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Sony officials held a news conference last week in Tokyo. (SOUND) They apologized for the theft of personal information from millions of…
2011-05-02 Mobile Devices’ Location Tracking Raises Privacy Concerns
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Lawmakers in the United States have expanded an investigation into the use of location-tracking systems on mobile devices. The action follows recent…
2011-04-25 How to Make Your Own Solar Water Heater
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Solar water heaters are used around the world and are not very difficult to build. The system we are going to describe…
2011-04-18 A Better Computer Mouse Cursor for the Disabled
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Using a computer mouse or trackball can be a little tricky. You choose the object you want and move it to where…
2011-04-11 Test of Big Space Rocket Set for Late 2012
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. An American space company says a powerful new rocket should be ready for a test launch by the end of next year.…
2011-04-04 Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Since the nineteen seventies, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers. Brain-computer interface, or BCI, technology could…
2011-03-28 Designing a Quake-Resistant Building Starts at the Soil
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Builders in developing countries are often not required to build strong buildings. So, when a disaster strikes, the damage is often widespread.…
2011-03-21 Japan’s Early Warning System One of the Best in the World
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. Japan’s Meteorological Agency released…
2011-03-14 Ten of Thousands of Technology Lovers Head South to Austin
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Tens of thousands of people travel to Austin, Texas each year to attend the South by Southwest festival. The festival is most…
2011-03-07 For Many People, First the Doctor’s Office, Then the Web
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A new survey finds that more than eighty percent of Internet users in the United States search for health information online. The…
2011-02-28 A Victory For Computers as Watson Wins ‘Jeopardy’
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. An IBM super computer named Watson has won the latest battle of man versus machine. Watson won the first ever “Jeopardy!” quiz…
2011-02-21 How Can a Country Disconnect Itself From the Internet?
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A five-day Internet shutdown in Egypt failed to stop the protests that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign. But it raised a…
2011-02-14 Group Offers Shortwave Radios to Poor Communities
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A shortwave radio might seem like ancient technology these days. But for some people, it remains their only link to the wider…