News and Notes Roundup: April 6
The weather is beautiful today, Baseball’s opening day is here, and NDItech is back with our weekly News and Notes Roundup. Today, we look at why the Turkish government decided to block Twitter and YouTube, new car models that (almost) drive on their own, the restart of the Large Hadron Collider, and a few case studies that prove mobile health is making great progress.
This week is an incredible week in tech history. 40 years ago on April 4th, 19 year old Bill Gates and 22 year old Paul Allen founded Microsoft. The thinking of these two men changed the landscape of the tech world at the time and is part of the reason computers are so easily accessible to people across the globe. Another pioneer in his field, Martin Cooper, made the first cell phone call on a New York City street 42 years ago. Cooper is considered to be the “father of the cell phone”. Today there are approximately 6.8 billion cellphones in the market with a global penetration rate of about 97%.
Now it’s time for this week’s tech news:
Popular Tech News
-Turkey blocks Twitter and YouTube over hostage photos
-Semi-autonomous cars are making their way to the market
-Does Obama need to crack down on cyber security?
-After two years of reconstruction, the world’s fastest particle accelerator is back in action
-Online test-takers campaign against intrusive anti-cheating software
ICT and Development
-Is technology the solution to increasing agricultural productivity?
-A look at why biometric voting fails in certain countries
-Two business giants team up for a Digital India project
-Rapid diagnostic test for Ebola developed by UK scientists
-Tech decreases pesticide use by 30% in Macedonia
Mobiles
-Mobiles should be driving gender equality, not widening the gap
-Just near the 5 year anniversary of the iPad, see what features made it last
-Mobile nursing saved a coastal town in Ghana from cholera
-How mobile literacy is expanding and necessary in South Africa
-Cellphones are reducing new cases of Dengue fever in Pakistan