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Today, as part of its annual Hour of Code event, Code.org is launching a free online tutorial that prompts kids to build their own games, based on characters in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

where they’ll learn to write code to design their own games featuring characters like R2-D2 ad C-3PO.

Of the 5 million students currently registered on Code.org, around 2 million are girls and around 2 million are black or Hispanic.

Nickelodeon UK’s launch of a website called Code-It that aims to teach programming skills to 6-12 year-olds.

While they will earn badges for their progress through the site’s set lessons, children will also be able to write their own programs animating the characters, and share them with their peers.

In May 2014, producer Aardman Animations launched Shaun’s Game Academy - a website challenging children to create and share their own games

Penguin Random House announced Wednesday it will release an abridged young adult version of The Da Vinci Code for teenage audiences.

The plot of the novel will remain largely the same but will be protracted for younger readers.

As America switches from an industrial economy to a digital one, its bluest collar workers are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. Can miners really learn how to code?

Say what you will about the long-term environmental effects (Justice, for one, is very pro-coal) but the impact on the area’s one-source economy has been brutal.

The Rusty Justice seminar concludes for today. The coders swivel back to their computers, and Michael announces weekend plans to no one in particular: “Looks like I better learn C#.”

Disney научит девочек программированию

Code.org заключает партнерство с Disney - теперь даже маленькие девочки захотят учиться программированию.

к проекту присоединилась корпорация Disney, представив учебную игру

Assembling is half the fun

by building the robot you'll learn the basics of 3D modeling, electronics, mobile app coding and Arduino programming

platform is fully Open Access, meaning everyone will be able to freely modify all of its aspects

taking these technologies out of the lab and into people’s everyday lives.

we're able to program physical objects to be intelligent, adapt and interact with their surroundings, and to surprise people with what is possible.

a video game programmed for the real world, is the first step for us and demonstrates what’s possible with Anki technology.

A product team at Google is working on a hardware device that would integrate Google's search and voice assistant technology, akin to the Amazon Echo

a portable speaker with voice assistant tech

voice search and intelligent personal assistance will occupy center stage at the company's splash show

Founded in California four years ago, Coursera has become one of the world's biggest providers of "massive, open, online courses" - known as Moocs. The online platform has 20 million students following courses from about 145 prestigious universities and institutions around the world.But most of the online courses have been short units that give students a certificate, rather than a full degree or credits towards a degree.

Coursera has announced a partnership with the US State Department to help refugees to access online courses to improve their job chances, such as English language lessons or computer coding.It would remove any costs from studying, such as fees for certificates showing the completion of courses.

EdX is offering a range of online courses from Arizona State University - and if a student passes eight of these, costing $200 (£150) each, it counts as the equivalent of a first year at university.

Google’s project to change transportation by designing cars which can drive themselves is getting less secretive

a trip which will be far less tedious when I can do it while reading, answering email or otherwise being productive.

Sergey Brin has talked about self-driving cars being a reality for “everyday people” within five years–and he said that a year and a half ago, which would suggest he was thinking about 2017

Hundreds of people at Apple are said to be secretly working on a design for an electric people-carrier which has been given the code name “Titan”. So far, the technology firm has declined to comment on the project

The Titan project was reportedly signed off almost a year ago by Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook, who has assigned vice president of product design, Steve Zadesky, to lead the group

Using partners that have existing payment systems would be one option, but many of the most obvious partners have become direct or quasi-competitors to Facebook over recent years, including both Amazon and Apple. Once a user’s first transaction is completed, the rest is straightforward, but it’s that first transaction that’s going to be the hard part. Crack that, and Facebook should quickly become a major player in e-commerce, adding yet another arrow to its quiver and opening up a whole new set of revenue streams.

"There's a certain class of content which is only going to come onto Facebook if there's a good way to compensate content owners for that,"

"We've recently rolled out the business model for this. We'll give a revenue share on a portion of the views to content owners

To grasp the scope of change unraveling in content creation, which is increasingly fragmented, consider all the mobile apps on your smartphone.

AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’ smartphones as controllers

For a local multiplayer gaming session AirConsole is super simple to use

your phone becomes the touch pad to control the goings-on on the other screen