2011-10-31 A Kitchen That Talks? This One Teaches French
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A “talking kitchen” teaches students how to cook French and speak French. Researchers at New Castle University in the United Kingdom have…
2011-10-24 How the Edsel Became ‘an Edsel’
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. ANNOUNCER: “They’ll know you’ve arrived, when you drive up in the nineteen fifty-eight Edsel — the car that’s truly new, from nameplate…
2011-10-17 No More Guesses at How to Say a Name
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A new online service offers a simple way to let other people know how to say your name correctly. It lets others…
2011-10-10 Steve Jobs Remembered
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Steve Jobs made technology fun. The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six. He had fought for years…
2011-10-03 Nigeria Launches First African-Built Satellite
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Nigeria has launched the first satellite designed and built by Africans. The NigeriaSat-X is one of two Earth observation satellites that the…
2011-09-26 Amazon Launches E-Book Lending for Libraries
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Amazon.com launched its Kindle library-lending service in the United States last week. Millions of users of the Kindle reader and app can…
2011-09-19 South Korea Tops ‘Information Society’ Report
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Falling prices are fueling growth in high-speed Internet services, especially in developing countries. Last week the International Telecommunication Union released its “Measuring…
2011-09-12 How Technology Has, and Has Not, Changed Since 9-11
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. It has been ten years since terrorists used hijacked airplanes to attack the United States. In the years since then, much has…
2011-09-05 Experts Meet in Rome to Discuss Cleaner and Greener Information and Communication Technologies
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Technology experts, government officials, policy makers and engineers are meeting this week in Italy. They have gathered in Rome for the first…
2011-08-29 Astronomers Still Look to Hubble Space Telescope
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to make valuable discoveries after more than twenty years in orbit around Earth. Hubble recently showed a…
2011-08-22 Privacy Concerns Over Facial Recognition Systems
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Today we take another look at facial recognition systems. These can tag friends in Facebook photos or help police identify suspects in…
2011-08-15 Living in a World With Facial Recognition
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A new study looks at privacy in a world where computers can increasingly recognize faces in a crowd or online. Alessandro Acquisti…
2011-08-08 Bigger Ships, So a Bigger Panama Canal
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Panama Canal opened almost one hundred years ago. More than one million ships have passed through the waterway since nineteen fourteen.…
2011-08-01 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much for Children?
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Children can spend hours a day looking at computer screens and other digital devices. Some eye care professionals say all that screen…
2011-07-25 How to Do It: Making Paper by Hand
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley. In those days,…