Catch ‘CODEGIRL’ for free on YouTube until November 5th

As part of Google’s Made With Code initiative, a new documentary called CODEGIRL by Lesley Chilcott (An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman) will be streaming on YouTube for free until November 5^th. According to Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, the film “follows the story of 5,000 girls from 60 countries as they compete in a global entrepreneurship and coding competition by Technovation. The girls have three months to develop an app that attempts to solve a problem in their local community. In the film, they size up their competition, interact with teachers and local mentors, learn to code, and pitch their ideas all in hopes of winning $10,000 in funding and support.”

Initiatives like this are meant to encourage young girls and women to get into tech field. If you want to support the film, you can do so by sharing it with the hashtag #Rallyforcodegirl. You can watch it from the video embedded above.

Source: Google Via: TechCrunch

Top 10 Back-To-School Online Safety Tips

Parents are in back-to-school mode now with last minute shopping for books, pencils, shoes and even mobile devices and laptops. But while we're making all those decisions it's also a good time to sit down with our kids to review online etiquette and safety tips. Yes, teens will roll their eyes and give you that "ya, I know" look but it's ultimately our responsibility, as parents, to nag the heck out of them (kidding! sort of) and to reinforce, what they may, or may not, know. 

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Video: All Hands on Tech checks out Chromebox for Meetings

Chromebox for Meetings is a great pivot on Chrome OS powered devices that, while generally cheaper than real PCs, are limited by the need to be online all the time. Chromebox for Meetings evolves the idea of a dumb-terminal running a cloud OS into a teleconferencing solution for SMB's and startups as well as any company looking for a more affordable teleconferencing solution. Our friends from All Hands on Tech break it down for us.

Holiday gift ideas for your techie girlfriend!

By Sonya Davidson

We're down for the count and you haven't had a chance to go shopping yet? Let me guess, your girlfriend (or wife) is hard to buy for? Or you just haven't had time? Don't sweat it guys! Here's my list of gift ideas that hopefully will help you out!

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