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A dozen teenagers in military fatigues sit quietly fiddling with small devices in antistatic bags, waiting, like the other kids around them, for further instruction. A teacher murmurs a few sentences ...

It has taken a long time for the BBC micro:bit to finally reach students in the UK. The device was first announced in 2015, but it has gone through a series of delays that kept pushing its release ...

A tiny computer intended to encourage UK kids to get programming is finally being delivered to schools, some half a year later than originally planned. The micro:bit was announced a year ago — the ...

There is a whole generation of computer scientists, software engineers, coders and hackers who first got into computing due to the home computer revolution of the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Machines ...

Rita was a Managing Editor at Android Police. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well. Her love story with Android started in 2009 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, ...

Timed activities such as sports, gaming, and cooking are monitored and alerted with digital timers. A digital timer uses an electronic counter circuit to keep track of timed events or activities based ...

A new version of the pocket-sized BBC micro:bit computer is coming to schools worldwide, packed with new features designed to keep young students up-to-date with the latest hot trends in technology.

The BBC has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11- and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming. Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March; ...

For a million kids in the United Kingdom, a version of Christmas came early this year. That is, if your version of Christmas includes a Micro: bit computer and the promise of a tech savvy future. On ...

Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro:bit v2, a pocket-sized computer first launched in 2015 to help teach computer science. The first generation of this device ...

Not encountered a micro:bit before? It’s pleased to meet you, too! A micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer. Simple to use, it helps you bring coding and software to life. It’s packed full of features ...