10 Jan 2013
Posted by thehispanic 
New sites are always popping up and some exist as a niche within a niche. But Gizmodo en Español is betting that technology news in Spanish is a winning combination. “We’re trying to reach several markets,” says publisher Daniel Mauser. “The international market, Spain and Latin America,...
Read more → 03 Jan 2013
Posted by thehispanic 
At a time when many people are touting the iPad as an essential learning tool and a school district in Maine is contemplating providing iPads to its kindergarteners, a new survey reveals that the most popular use of tablet computers is probably one that most pro-iPad educators didn’t have in mind. The survey by...
Read more → 27 Dec 2012
Posted by thehispanic 
This week on Tech Leaders — Rafael Fajardo, University of Denver professor, creator of socially conscious video games. Fajardo has pushed to include women and minorities into STEM fields by teaching how to create their own video games. He says teaching and making things are his passion...
Read more → 13 Dec 2012
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It is perhaps the most memorable and enduring of the Puerto Rican Christmas traditions. Though it is known in other parts of Latin America, the Puerto Rican “parranda,” where family and friends go to someone’s house at night, sing Christmas songs with maracas and guiros, eat and drink a bit,...
Read more → 07 Dec 2012
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Dr. Justin Sanchez’s four-year-old daughter looks at him quizzically. “What’d you learn in the lab today, Daddy?” “How the brain works.” “Why do you want to learn how the brain works?” “To help people with spinal cord injuries.” Over ten years of toiling in the lab on chronic...
Read more → 06 Dec 2012
Posted by thehispanic 
Three inmates at a Puerto Rico prison, two of them convicted of murder, are part of an experiment that has them tweet out three times daily about their everyday life in confinement. The pilot program, dubbed "Follow me so you don't follow me," seeks to discourage juvenile crime in the island by providing...
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