From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Workers at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan will soon begin another clean-up effort. More than 1,500 nuclear fuel rods are to be removed from a damaged storage pool 30 meters above ground, inside the Reactor 4 building. TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, owns the nuclear […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. For years, many western companies have sent important business services to India, where they can be done at lower cost. This is called outsourcing, and it has brought jobs to India. Other countries have seen the economic gains from outsourcing and are […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Getting a taxi ride in most cities is as easy as raising your hand high in the air. In Johannesburg, getting a taxi ride just got even easier, thanks to a new computer software product for mobile phones. The new SnappCab app lets users call a taxi simply by touching the […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. When a building collapses, every minute is important for people buried under the wreckage. That is why two American government agencies worked together to develop a high-tech tool to find those trapped. The Department of Homeland Security and NASA, the American space agency, took part in the project. […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. The government in Burma has used large books to record marriages, taxes and even official documents. But this paper-based system is going away, as government agencies move to computers. Myint Kyaw works in Burma’s Ministry of Information. He is responsible for bringing all 36 government ministries online by 2015. […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Vietnam has reported growth in its communications, information, and technology industries over the past 10 years. Vietnam’s government has high hopes for the future. It wants the country to become a center for Information Technology services in the years to come. But experts say Vietnam must do […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. An international coalition is calling for a ban on fully autonomous weapons, known as “killer robots.” The 45-member coalition recently proposed the ban to governments at a meeting of the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots asked the U.N. group to add fully autonomous […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. The world’s largest solar thermal plant was set to begin producing power in the United States at the end of 2013. Wind and energy from the sun are generally considered clean, unlike energy from coal-burning power stations. But, environmentalists now worry that too much solar power development could harm […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. North Korea is often seen as a poor country, cut off from the world and lacking in new technology. But officials in South Korea have linked North Korea to recent attacks on computers. And they are describing the North’s ability to harm computer system as world class. South Korea’s […]
Most people spend little time thinking about the act of walking. But millions of people around the world are not able to walk, not even one step. Now, a new “wearable robot” may change that. Bod Amelion leads a basketball team called the Freewheelers. His players are unable to walk. They use wheelchairs to move around. The […]