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06 Sep

Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game Pioneer by Benj Edwards

Thirty-seven years ago, New York-based APF Electronics, Inc. released The Imagination Machine, a hybrid video game console and personal computer designed to make a consumer's first experience with computing as painless and inexpensive as possible. APF's playful computer (and its game console, the MP1000) never rivaled...

11:23 / News / DigiStaff

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01 Sep

I’m A Black Female Entrepreneur In Silicon Valley – And I Hate The Phrase “Beating the Odds by Sequia Taylor

You don’t need me to tell you how hyper-competitive, White, and male the worlds of finance and technology are. I believe I am being entirely fair in saying it is not any small feat that I – Black, female, and from a working-class Tennessee upbringing...

13:20 / News / DigiStaff

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01 Sep

Why the Universe Needs More Black and Latino Astronomers by Joshua Sokol

Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Pedro Villanueva. Anthony Nuñez. These four names—all recent black and Latino victims of police violence—stare out at a college classroom full of budding astronomers. Written above them on the chalkboard is the now-familiar rallying call “Black Lives Matter.” It's a Friday morning...

12:12 / News / DigiStaff

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31 Aug

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Visits Nigeria On First Sub-Saharan Africa Trip by Toby Shapshak

One his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a surprise visit to Nigeria, Africa’s most populace nation (170-milllion people) and Facebook's largest market with 16-million users. “This is my first trip to sub-Saharan Africa,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “I’ll...

15:17 / News / DigiStaff

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31 Aug

Top 10 African Americans in the Video Game Industry by Samara Lynn

African Americans make up a significant demographic of video gamers, the second largest ethnic group to play, after Asian Americans. Yet, there is a paucity of black people in the gaming industry. Only 2.5% of game developers are of color. This means that not only are African...

12:08 / News / DigiStaff

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30 Aug

Detroit Engineer: Turn Buses Into Rolling Tech Teaching Labs by Samara Lynn

An Amazon engineer hailing from Detroit has a novel idea for that city’s unused school buses: turn them into mobile tech labs. Thomas Phillips presented his idea at last month’s Hack the Central District Cultural Innovation Conference (Hack the CD) in Seattle, according to The Detroit...

12:26 / News / DigiStaff

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