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Future of Electronics: Light Travels “Infinitely Fast” in New On-chip Material

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science, tech 7:28 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Researchers at SEAS have developed a metamaterial with zero refractive index that will allow a phase of light to go at infinitely fast speeds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Prepare yourselves to put silicon-based electronics in the archives as the world will soon embrace the light. No, it is not telepathic connections we are talking about, but comparably fast photons that are set to replace the electrons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Scientists had realized years before that soon we would have to stop extrapolation of the Moore’s Law and look out for the better prospectives. And yes they did. Researchers have come up with two brilliant solutions to the slowing electrons: quantum computations and light based computations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A team of researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has managed to manipulate light at the nanoscale and integrate it into the extant devices. The researchers have designed an on-chip  metamaterial with zero refractive index such that a phase of the light will now travel at an infinitely fast speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, don’t get tensed. No rule of physics has been broken yet! The researchers have merely worked on increasing the phase velocity of light, i.e. the speed by which the crests of light travel in a medium. The change in the phase velocity is the reason of slowing down of light in other material (and the cause of the phenomenon of refraction).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The researchers have merely worked on increasing the phase velocity of light, i.e. the speed by which the crests of light travel in a medium. The change in the phase velocity is the reason of slowing down of light in other material (and the cause of the phenomenon of refraction).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The researchers have merely worked on increasing the phase velocity of light, i.e. the speed by which the crests of light travel in a medium. The change in the phase velocity is the reason of slowing down of light in other material (and the cause of the phenomenon of refraction).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Light doesn’t typically like to be squeezed or manipulated, but this metamaterial permits you to manipulate light from one chip to another, to squeeze, bend, twist and reduce the diameter of a beam from the macroscale to the nanoscale. It’s a remarkable new way to manipulate light."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Scientists have now made a material with zero refractive index which allows light to maintain a constant phase with all crests and troughs stretched at infinitely long wavelengths. In such a scenario, it is possible to manipulate light like stretching and twisting at the zero expense of the energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The material is made up of silicon pillar arrays which are embedded in a polymer matrix and cladded in a gold film. The metamaterial makes the interface with photonic chips possible as it can couple with the silicon waveguides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The integration will also give a huge boost to quantum optics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research has been described in the journal <a href="http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2015.198.html">Nature Photonics</a> and is considered as a significant step towards a new era of telecommunication.</span></div>
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Future of Electronics: Light Travels “Infinitely Fast” in New On-chip Material

SP's: Researchers at SEAS have developed a metamaterial with zero refractive index that will allow a phase of light to go at infini...

Facebook Exposing Trillions of Posts to Public Search, Change Your Settings Right Now

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, WebNdSocial 7:25 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>To make its search more functional, Facebook has indexed about 2 trillion public posts. Now, you can search the pictures, news and posts of your interest by entering some phrases in the search box. However, if you want to opt out, you need to change some settings right now.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook is about to change in a big way and it’s going to affect Google – and you, of course. Now Facebook is making all the public posts on the social network available to universal search.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook is making it a lot easier to search the conversations and stories unfolding in real time, just like Twitter or Google search. Just the way Google indexes websites and web pages, Facebook has indexed about two trillion posts put on by the Facebook users to make them easily searchable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This move by Facebook will make the search function of Facebook broader and help you to search things that interest you more easily on the world’s biggest social network. Now you can search the public pictures of the Halloween in just a click and easily look for the discussions of your friends about The Martian by typing few phrases in the search box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But, if you are uncomfortable with sharing your life and don’t want to make a contribution to the public debate, there are just 2 simple steps to follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In your News Feed page, just click on the top right corner of the screen. Below the big purple dinosaur, click on the question “Who can see my stuff?” The option that you need to tick is “Friends” and avoid “Public” to restrict the visibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This option will change the visibility of future posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To change the past posts, you need to find the “Limit Past Posts” option in “See More Settings” and do changes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you like this change in Facebook search? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Facebook Exposing Trillions of Posts to Public Search, Change Your Settings Right Now

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Ultimate Battle of Hybrids: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C

Shivam Patsariya 0 Mobiles, MobilesAndTablets, tech 12:09 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>All big companies are battling each other to become winners in the race of the ultimate hybrid tablet. Taking inspiration from Microsoft Surface tablet, Apple and Google have revealed their new products. Let’s take a look at this ultimate battle: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every big company seems to be betting on the huge tablet/laptop convertible for the future of personal computing. Whether we look at the newest offering from Apple, Microsoft or Google, what we see is a big tablet, by big I mean bigger than the 10-inch standard ‘large’ tablet size, with a keyboard accessory that can be bought separately. Now it’s a tablet, now it’s not! The magic trick is getting a bit old now but only now have the devices reached the kind of polish that can make consumers ditch their real laptop notebooks and buy a hybrid one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Before we begin, one thing I don’t understand here is that if you are pitching a device as a laptop/tablet hybrid then at least ship the keyboard in the package; instead we get an ‘optional’ keyboard accessory at a price of around 150 bucks. So very uncool!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With that out of the way let us compare the ‘surfaces’ from the biggest tech companies and find out which one is the best buy.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">8 MP iSight camera at the back</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">1.2 MP FaceTime/Selfie camera</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$169 Keyboard accessory</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$799 for 32GB model</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">8 MP at the back</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$129 for keyboard accessory ($149 for the one with fingerprint reader)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$899 Core M3, 128 GB SSD, 4GB RAM</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$999 Core i5, 128 GB SSD, 4 GB RAM</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$149 for keyboard accessory</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Comparison: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The devices we have here for comparison are vastly different from each other, probably the only thing common between them is the touchscreen is big and high resolution and all are wannabe laptops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google’s Pixel C has me least convinced to replace my laptop with it. Android is not yet ready to provide the level of functionality a user desires from a laptop. The keyboard technology that Google has built for it is commendable, but most users would like to use a 10″ tablet as a tablet rather than a laptop. Even with Marshmallow the operating system is not for the laptop format. Also, the hardware is nearly not as powerful as one would like to have on a laptop to get some decent productivity. It is cheaper than the rest but considering that it is more of a tablet and less of a laptop, shelling out $750 for a tablet is not advisable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4 are worthy competitors. Even though it is Apple’s first attempt in the convertible market, they learned from the mistakes of their enemies and have built a great device. On the other hand, Surface Pro 4 has seen iterative development over the years and is now at the peak of its growth. Windows phone is no match for iOS but to compete with full Windows 10, Apple knew it had to pull many bunnies out of its hat. Hence, iOS 9. The newest iOS has adapted (read copied windows features) to the needs of the laptop environment by providing multiple apps on screen and app in app functionality. Also, the performance of the new A9X chip is ‘desktop class’ according to Apple which they proved by editing four streams of 4k videos simultaneously on the new iPad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Surface Pro 4 is the laptop/tablet hybrid Microsoft had dreamed when it launched the first surface. The keyboard is fantastic, the pen is much better, the OS is a pleasure to use on a touch screen, everything is smooth and slick. It is pretty much the perfect windows device for on the go needs. Be sure to buy the i5 version at least to get decent performance. This will set you back for $1150 because of course you will have to buy the keyboard separately. In comparison, iPad Pro 128 GB model with keyboard and pencil will cost the same. On another note, Microsoft was onstage at the iPad Pro unveiling to say how good the tablet is for using its Office Suite. So if you mostly use Microsoft Office you can’t go wrong either way. Also, I am not comparing the main snappers because if the camera on a > 12″ tablet affects your buying decision then I cannot help you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, in the end it all boils down to a clash between Windows desktop vs iOS and I am giving this one to Windows. If any device replaces my laptop it should be able to do everything I did on my laptop exactly the same. This is the most important thing when looking for a replacement, you want the other thing to work the same that your original device did. If I get additional touch screen goodness with it then it is a plus. On the other hand if I get a whole bunch of touch screen goodness and then have to compromise on my laptop productivity; Sorry I am not interested. I will just buy a tablet instead. iOS could be the ‘most advanced’ mobile operating system but on a notebook I would like a desktop operating system. Had there been OS X when you needed a laptop and iOS in touchscreen mode, Apple would have taken the crown. Perhaps, sometime in the future.</span></div>
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Ultimate Battle of Hybrids: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C

SP's: All big companies are battling each other to become winners in the race of the ultimate hybrid tablet. Taking inspiration fro...

Bad News for Windows 10, Chrome-like Edge Extensions Not Coming This Year

Shivam Patsariya 0 AppsnSoftSecure, tech, Windows 10:59 AM

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Bad News for Windows 10, Chrome-like Edge Extensions Not Coming This Year

SP's: Microsoft has been unable to bring momentum to the Edge browser adoption rate and this could be largely attributed to the lac...

Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

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Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

SP's: Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap gave a teaser of its developing technology at WSJD live event with a floating solar syst...

Are You Under the Attack of CCTV Botnet?

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Internet of Things are constantly being targeted by attackers to get the better off of the companies or individuals. CCTV surveillance cameras are generally preferred for the purpose. Make sure you do not come under the attack of CCTV botnet.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now Incapsula security researchers have reported that their client was under a severe botnet attack by repeated HTTP GET flood attacks, peaking at around 20,000 RPS (request per second). As they went through the attacking IPs, they found that some of those unsecured cameras in the botnet were installed in their own backyards and the mall in front of their office!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The traffic originated from about 900 hacked CCTV cameras from around the world which had weak login SSH, Telnet passwords and those whose security was held ransom due to the default passwords. One thing that needs a special mention here is Shodan, a hacker search engine that stags all the IoTs in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, as Incapsula reported that most of the compromised CCTV cameras ran on BusyBox, a version of Linux built specifically for IoT devices. And these cameras were attacked with .btce malware which is designed for the BusyBox systems. Some of the devices were even launched with HTTP Get flood DDoS attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In 2014, there were about 245 million surveillance cameras operational worldwide. And that’s just a <a href="https://www.incapsula.com/blog/cctv-ddos-botnet-back-yard.html">reported </a>number, the actual figures could be way higher than this. In fact, there are cities like Beijing that are under the Skynet of surveillance cameras which can become easy targets for hackers.</span></div>
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Are You Under the Attack of CCTV Botnet?

SP's: Internet of Things are constantly being targeted by attackers to get the better off of the companies or individuals. CCTV sur...

This Hacker is Destroying Racist and Homophobic Websites One by One

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>- A hacker that operates a Twitter handle named Amped Attacks, is taking down the websites spreading homophobia and racism one by one. Via the Twitter account, the hacker tweets the next targets and tells the world about its activities.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is a new vigilante hacker in town. This hacker goes by the name of Amped Attacks and is busy destroying the homophobic and racist websites one-by-one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The hacker Amped Attacks uses #tangotown in the tweets, a hashtag that is commonly used by the Anonymous hacktivist group. But, this doesn’t confirm Amped Attacks’ association with the Anonymous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">None of the official Twitter handlers have mentioned that Amped Attacks is working under their influence. The most recent target of the Amped Attack is website lionmakerstudios.org as shown in the tweet below (website is back online:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Earlier this weekend, the hacker took down kkkknights.com and it even successfully targeted a website related to ISIS. In a recent tweet, the hacker warns another site:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It should be noted that these DDoS outages don’t last very long. So, it’s possible that the Amped Attacks is drawing our attention towards these websites and I don’t think that’s a bad thing to do.</span></div>
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This Hacker is Destroying Racist and Homophobic Websites One by One

SP's: - A hacker that operates a Twitter handle named Amped Attacks, is taking down the websites spreading homophobia and racism one...

Meet Hendo 2.0: World’s First Real Hoverboard’s Advanced Version

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> A year ago, Hendo was introduced and it claimed it to be the world’s first real hoverboard. The early demo videos showed that this claim had some credibility. Now, on the occasion of the Back to the Future day, Arx Pax has introduced a bigger and more advanced version as Hendo 2.0.</i></span></div>
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Meet Hendo 2.0: World’s First Real Hoverboard’s Advanced Version

SP's: A year ago, Hendo was introduced and it claimed it to be the world’s first real hoverboard. The early demo videos showed that...

‘Facebook TechPrep’ Will Help You Learn To Code

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook was created in a dorm of Harvard University by some students to help build connectivity in the campus. Later, with the same goal in mind, one man with his team was able to attach over 2 billion people to his idea today. But Facebook doesn’t want to limit itself to just another successful business model. Instead the ever-expanding Black Hole of the Internet wants you to be aware, learn and generate cognitive curiosity towards computer science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In order to create an inclusive culture, Facebook wants to connect the maximum number of people with the technology and break the walls of ignorance. For that purpose, Facebook has announced to provide free Internet from space as well, starting from Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook, is thus offering its new initiative Facebook TechPrep which will help to quench the curiosity of the students, expose parents and guardians to the computer science and create an environment of computer learning in the underrepresented groups by providing resources to all these people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The resource hub, Facebook TechPrep will curate to the users the solutions to their requirements as per the individual skills such as the age of the learner, skill level and what kind of education they are interested in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The TechPrep program specifically targets the unaware public and the parents who find themselves helpless in guiding their children in the field of computer learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">TechPrep is quite an appreciable effort on the part of Facebook as more and more students and parents in the developing countries would get an opportunity to learn and prepare themselves for the competition awaiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch the video posted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:</span></div>
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Today we’re launching TechPrep -- a website to help people start programming careers.It shows parents and students what programming is, why it’s important, and what sort of jobs are available for those who can code. It guides people to resources to get started -- everything from classes to college prep. And it features real stories from people from under-represented groups who’ve used the resources to start careers in tech. Improving diversity in the tech industry is an important challenge, and something we’re deeply committed to at Facebook. Everyone should be able to take advantage of the opportunities created by the internet. Giving everyone the opportunity to learn to code will create even more valuable tools to serve society. Through research with McKinsey, we found that there are very few resources in particular for Black or Hispanic learners, and we wanted to change this. We’ve also put together resources for parents and guardians so they can provide young people with advice and support. We hope this is a valuable resource for people in our community, and that it helps makes a small contribution towards making our industry more diverse. Check out TechPrep at: https://techprep.fb.com<br />
Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck">Mark Zuckerberg</a> on Wednesday, October 21, 2015</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Via: Facebook Newsroom</span></div>
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‘Facebook TechPrep’ Will Help You Learn To Code

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