Updated: Gove drops EBC plans for using EBacc to grade students and schools
School league tables are also being given a more complex overhaul, but will include creative subjects.
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Apple hiring UI designer to redesign iWork
Apple has advertised that it is looking for people to "re-imagine how users interfaces should be built and work".
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£16 Raspberry Pi Model A ships in the UK
Just as Henry Ford revolutionized the auto world with his Model A, the scrappy lot at Raspberry Pi are doing the same with the computing world with their Model A.
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Typecast web fonts-led design tool officially launched
Monotype has launched the commercial version of Typecast, a browser-based tool for designing Web pages with Web fonts.
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Apple confirms it's canning the Mac Pro on March 1
The Mac Pro will disappear from Europe on March 1. A new 'pro product' is due later this year.
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Adobe backs #includedesign campaign to get creative subjects into the EBacc
Cites "moral obligation" not to let creative education be downgraded in proposed changes to GCSEs.
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20 things that happened on the Internet in 2012 illustrated by Niark1
See if you can spot 20 of last year's web trends in this artwork created on behalf of Syzergy.
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Gove adds Computer Science to the EBacc, creative subjects still left out
Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has announced that computer science will sit alongside traditional science subjects and be added to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).
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10 new ways to interact with your computer
In the future, you'll be using your hands and eyes rather than your mouse and keyboard to create your work, apparently.
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Google to buy Raspberry Pi devices for British students
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt pledged to provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi model B computers to British schools
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Sun web app developer discusses HTML5 design for iOS
We interview the student behind an elegantly simple weather app created with some innovative coding.
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Web designer gets revenge on client, replaces site with image of unpaid invoice
One web designer has found a seemingly perfect way to get revenge on a client she says hasn't paid its bill.
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US government announces 'national hacking day'
The White House wants creatives, coders and entrepreneurs to do some good with public data on June 1 and 2.
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Tesco trials 'magic mirrors' and digital mannequins to entice shoppers
Tesco is testing interactive technologies in stores to with the aim of creating a multi-channel shopping experience for customers of its F&F clothing range.
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Microsoft Surface Pro launching in US on Feb 9, UK launch date unsure
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet will launch on 9 February in the US and Canada.
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Dare to be Digital 2013 student game design competition – call for entries
Enter to compete to become one of 15 teams to build a working game prototype in just nine weeks.
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Will Facebook add Promoted Posts to Graph Search?
Will brands be able to take advantage of Facebook's in-house, recommendation-based search system?
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In photos: Design Museum Designs of the Year 2013
This year's selection range from the ornately beautiful to the disarmingly simple, and from engaging fun to truly touching social projects.
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Opinion: Gesture-based interfaces are out of control
We really need Microsoft, Samsung, Google, Apple and other heavyweights to get together agree on standard hand gestures and how they work.
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LaCie debuts sci-fiesque Blade Runner hard drive
LaCie has once again commissioned designer Philippe Starck to create an unusually-shaped storage system.