Ever wonder why your Silicon Valley developer peers make more money than you? As Brookings analyst Jonathan Rothwell points out, it's not because they're more experienced than you. Rather, it's because the technology skills they do have are "particularly valuable."What are these skills, you ask?While it's impossible to get an...
Before I tell you what it was like to go a week without my smartphone, I have a confession to make: I cheated. Not much, mind you, but when ReadWrite editor-in-chief Owen Thomas asked one of his writers to take a week's vacation from my mobile devices and write about the...
I recently had the pleasure of unpacking a Braava floor mopping robot and putting it to work.I say pleasure because it was genuinely—and surprisingly—a really fun experience. You’d have thought a new family member had arrived the way my family took photos and notified relatives and friends. It was kind...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.Girls today need to learn how to code for two reasons: first, there aren't enough female engineers, and second, it will become an essential skill, just like reading, writing, and math.The tech community used to be a place that wasn't...
HBO’s Silicon Valley, the fictional chronicle of a startup crew struggling to make their mark on the world, rounds out its outstanding first season with Episode 8: “Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency.”ReadWrite screened the final episode at a movie theater in downtown San Francisco, thanks to our friends at fellow tech new site...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.In case you missed it, sci-fi tech is no longer fictional. Microsoft is bringing Star Trek's universal translator to life with Skype Translator, a feature that enables cross-lingual conversations in real time.Microsoft demoed the tech for the first time...
Microsoft wants gamers build their own worlds—playable game worlds, in fact. Microsoft’s Project Spark, in open beta now for Windows 8 and the Xbox One, splices together a Minecraft-like sandbox with actual developer tools, enabling budding game makers to actually build a playable game from scratch with no technical know-how...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Evan Sharp was still an architecture student at Columbia University when he and two friends got the idea to start Pinterest as a side project back in 2009.Everyone knows how that story ended. Today, Pinterest is...
My grade school experience with computer classes didn’t expand far beyond Spooky the Ghost teaching me how to type and clipping Word Art onto Powerpoint slideshows. Now it seems as though every education initiative includes computer science to get kids geared up for coding and programming for the future.It’s clear...
Some people have resolutions for the New Year. I have a to-do list. The top priority? Helping my aging father with his technology.Senior citizens often battle isolation and loneliness, and computers and mobile devices can act like lifelines. Knowing this, I wasn’t about to let my dad down. But helping him...
If you’re in the market for a new job, you might want to consider the tech sector. According to LinkedIn, the most desirable skills in 2013 were dominated by tech. LinkedIn took a look at the skills and employment history of over 259 million members to determine what the most popular...
ReadWriteHome explores the implications of living in connected homes.Classrooms have historically been slow adopters of technology. When I was a young student, the latest blueberry iMac sat on my desk at home while my school library ran Oregon Trail circa 1990. Today, as connected homes and advanced consumer technologies increasingly become part of our daily lives,...
If tech's "dirty little secret" is that it's still mostly male and mostly white, open source has an even dirtier secret: its practitioners are even less diverse than those in proprietary software. For an empowering phenomenon that encourages developers to "scratch their own itches," open-source projects thus run the risk...
HTML5 was supposed to replace Flash by making Web pages work more like apps. But when its performance fell short, HTML5's stock with app developers fell.Famo.us is a small company that rushed to fill the gap. It has developed its own framework that essentially sidesteps the poky elements of HTML5...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Lynda Weinman could be considered the pioneer of online education.She founded the online training site Lynda.com with her husband Bruce Heavin in 1995. Four million students, 2200 courses and 100,000 videos later, it has become one...
It's a computer, but there's no monitor. Or fan, or keyboard, or even a case, for that matter. But the credit-card sized Rasperry Pi is still getting snapped up by consumers: less than two years after the first Pis shipped, over two million have been sold.Raspberry Pi falls into a...
Teens have always been stereotyped as massive consumers of technology, but in some cases they're also the ones advancing it. Young people have long been avid early adopters, and not just of applications like Snapchat and Instagram. See also: Do Teenage Entrepreneurs Even Need To Go To College?The Internet and mobile...
Video games are often at the center of negative press for their effect on children. But that's not the only story that can be told. Video games used as teaching tools can change lives and impart excellent skills.With news of any youth in possession of a gun or worse being the perpetrator...
Ever since the tech world collectively decided that programming is the essential skill all kids ought to learn, perhaps even before they learn to read, the market has been saturated with tablet apps aimed at raising the next Zuckerburg. Bay Area startup Play-i is taking another approach. The company is...
In the 20th Century, meaningful education was all about learning your ABCs. Today, it's centered on Alphas, Betas and C++.Programming skills are becoming ever more important, quickly turning into the core competency for all kinds of 21st Century workers. That inescapable fact is leading individuals to seek out new ways...
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