2011-07-18 Students Compete to Find Tech Solutions for World Problems
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Hundreds of students from around the world gathered in New York City last week for the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals. They came…
2011-07-11 Flying Car Moves Closer to Reality
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. You could fill the sky with all the ideas people have had for flying cars — or what Carl Dietrich calls “flying-driving…
2011-07-04 Game Over for Limits on Violent Video Games
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. America’s video game industry was the winner in a decision last week by the United States Supreme Court. The justices rejected a…
2011-06-27 Defending Free Speech With a ‘Panic Button’
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. We reported last week on projects by the Obama administration to increase Internet freedom around the world. Alec Ross, a senior adviser…
2011-06-20 US Seeks ‘Shadow’ Internet, Mobile Networks in Repressive Countries
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Obama administration is leading an effort to deploy what some people call liberation technology in repressive countries. The New York Times…
2011-06-13 Shortage of Internet Addresses, but a Slow Move to New System
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Last Wednesday, June eighth, was World IPv6 Day — the first major deployment of Internet Protocol version 6. Hundreds of Internet service…
2011-06-06 WHO Finding Adds to Debate Over Mobile Phones, Brain Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The World Health Organization has added to the debate over the risk of brain cancer from mobile phone use. Last week the…
2011-05-30 Paying Tech Talents to Drop Out of College
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison have in common? They all made billions of dollars in technology. And they…
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.…