We've already detailed how to check your Mac to see if you're infected -- but that requires some command line code, and we know that not all users are comfortable doing that. Now we've gone one step further and wrapped those commands into two AppleScripts.

Even if you aren't infected, make sure you install the latest Apple security update for Java to fix the vulnerability that allowed this nasty exploit to exist in the first place.

Women who are obese and/or have diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy may be about 60% more likely to have babies with autism, a new study suggests.

According to the study, 34% of U.S. women of childbearing age are obese and 8.7% have diabetes.

The National Archives and Records Administration website housing 1940 Census records registered over 60 million hits in just three hours on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, the second day they were open.

Economists will be able to analyze how people in specific occupations or smaller geographic areas fared during the Great Depression.

take notes, collect web clippings, upload files, share notes with classmates, get organized.

The site allows students to track their classes and assignments, and even will send reminders (email or SMS) for upcoming assignment due dates and test dates.

Students can work on homework together and help each other out.

ublish them on a blog. Short for "Web logs," blogs are online journals created by an individual or an organization and cover topics ranging from human rights to fashion -- and everything in between. Blogs are a great example of how emerging voices are not onl

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Teachers deserve a chance to begin teaching at a school that holds high expectations. Yet they are often required neither to prove proficiency in technology nor to practice the use of it in their classrooms.

The teachers would become capable technology users who would understand that the opportunities that instructional technology affords can make the practice of teaching more efficient.

Basic Computer/Technology Operations and Concepts.

Personal and Professional Use of Technology.

Application of Technology in Instruction

"Why is technology important?" there are now more than two decades of work that I think cannot be ignored, pointing to not only the positive impacts of technology in areas like basic reading skills and improved writing and helping kids do advanced work in mathematics and science, but also to the areas where we do need to do more work, where there is, of course, improvement to be made. And, as our knowledge of how kids learn and our technological capabilities grow, we should expect to continue to have to invest in research, in development, in evaluation, and then to be prepared to apply those findings in real application and real practice.

But even in that limited arena, there is research under controlled conditions that shows that students with access to good technology applications and good teaching learn more and learn faster than students who don't.

It is an initiative that we believe will make it possible for more students to come closer to our goals of higher academic standards and the preparation of our students with skills and knowledge that we believe and the businesses and parents believe are the essential foundations for life-long learning.

The newest technology to enter the education arena, however, is the interactive whiteboard, or SMART Board. These combine multimedia functions with internet access and offer educational, interactive programs for teachers and students.

But the pitfalls of too much technology in the classroom are quickly becoming evident. For children, the drawbacks of technology in general, and of the internet in particular, have resulted in cyber bullying and the threat of sexual predators.  Daily newscasts provide a quick glimpse of the perils of technology and in the classroom it can be no less treacherous.

r research, which is often its purpose, much time is wasted sifting through the numerous websites for the one that offers the most relevant information