By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, […]
Category: Technology
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Tech Company Innovates Foster Care
By J. K. Schmid, AFRO Staff A Falls Church non-profit has won first place at the inaugural Innovate for Good Challenge. The winner, Connect Our Kids, is developing data-driven intelligent […]
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iPads, Macs Get New Screens as Apple Pushes Creativity
By ANICK JESDANUN and MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Apple’s new iPads will more closely resemble its latest iPhones as they ditch a home button and fingerprint […]
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MidCity and Boolean Girl to Bring STEM Club to Brookland Manor, Noyes
By Enid Doggett, Special to the AFRO The Alice and Eugene Ford Foundation and Boolean Girl announced a partnership that will bring after-school clubs teaching computer science and engineering to students […]
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Software Developer Launches Two Apps for Black History
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Hugh Smith, the owner of Quikthinking Software, has released new apps featuring quotes and oral histories from important Black figures. Quikthinking’s Black History […]
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AFRO Now Available on Apple News
By AFRO Staff The AFRO American Newspaper is now available on Apple’s News app. The app, built into all iPhones and iPads, allows users to access news from around the […]
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Miss USA Encourages Youth to Pursue STEAM Careers
By Micha Green, Washington, D.C. AFRO Editor, mgreen@afro.com Kára McCullough, a scientist turned Miss USA 2017, is encouraging students to pursue science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) careers through her newest […]
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Discover the Power of Unplugging
Technology has been one of my BFFs ever since I discovered its power when I logged in to the LexisNexis research service as a first-year law student at Howard University […]
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Maryland Must Stay Committed To Clean Energy
The oil and natural gas industry is responsible for 138,000 asthma attacks leading to over 100,000 missed school days each year for African American children nationwide. This was concluded in […]
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Nigerian-Born Tech Entrepreneur Inks Deal with Apple to Sell Gaming Robot
Nigerian-born Englishman Silas Adekunle has raised more than $7 million to fund an innovative gaming robot that can be used, in part, to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) […]
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D.C. Seniors Get Crash Course in Technology
Elderly residents learned how to surf the web and use and understand digital applications and devices on Nov. 9 at the FH Faunteroy Enrichment Center, in the Deanwood neighborhood in […]
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Bridging History with Digital Technology
The lines outside of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture show no signs of dissipating, with online ticket reservations secured through January 2017. For those […]