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Marketplace Are your apps spying on you? Apps and your privacy
When you download popular apps, you could be giving companies permission to do a lot more than you think — to track your location, read your texts, access your photos, even access your microphone and camera. Are you really prepared to say yes to all those permissions? With help from data developers, the Marketplace team creates a horoscope app to investigate how ...
- 2016
- 00:22:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/31/2017
The National Teaching Coding Through Robotics
A team of Harvard engineers has come up with a fun way to get kids hooked on coding. Starting with simple pictograms, students set responses to certain stimuli that determine the movements of a robot named Root. When they become comfortable working with pictures, the program introduces text-based coding. With this tool, even children who don't yet know how to ...
- 2016
- 00:05:11
- 9-12
- Added on: 07/27/2016
News in Review - February 2015 Sony Hack
When cyber-terrorists hacked the computer system of one of Hollywood's largest film companies, they exposed damaging emails to the public. They also demanded a stop to the release of a comedy movie depicting the assassination of North Korea's leader. Was North Korea responsible? And what does this kind of breach mean for the security of any country?
- 2015
- 00:17:01
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/13/2015
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News in Review - February 2007 Visiting Second Life's Virtual World
Second Life is an online 3-D digital world that is created by the people who sign up for it. It's also a really big business. Its more than two million residents can buy everything from virtual land to virtual running shoes. In this News in Review story we'll examine why Second Life is so popular. We'll also create an avatar ...
- 2007
- 00:11:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/15/2007
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