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Ethiopian Children Crack Tablets With No Tuition

Ethiopian Children Crack Tablets With No Tuition
An interesting experiment from the folks at the One Laptop Per Child organisation. They left a bunch of Motorola tablets at a remote Ethiopian villages with no instructions, and waited to see what would happen. Turns out the kids there picked up the basics almost immediately, and after five months one apparently managed to hack the system so they could operate the camera: “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera," explained OLPC's founder Nicholas Negroponte, ""and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android". Apart from the fact that it all seems a little unbelievable, not to mention a mite odd to basically be using African children as technological guinea pigs, the results, if they can be verified, are certainly interesting... Click here for the full story
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