Many big names, including the three above, shot a promotional video to illustrate the fun and beneficial aspects of coding. Drop Box’s Drew Houston, Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh, various Facebook engineers, and more discuss their love and passion for coding and why more people should learn it. Will.i.am, who also makes a cameo in the video, makes a good point when he says that everyone depends on technology to communicate or bank, yet “none of us know how to read or write code”.

Many tech companies find it difficult to discover qualified programmers and software engineers in the U.S. Only 1 out of 10 students know how to code, which is shocking to them because there are “millions of jobs” out there for people with coding knowledge. The job market is wide open for people who are able to market those skills. Because of the current lack of workers with tech qualifications, Silicon Valley plans on making a case before the House Judiciary Committee in Capitol Hill to provide more visas for foreign workers who have degrees in math or science.

Code.org hopes to rally up enough support in order to prepare students for the future. The tech industry is always growing, and companies need more and more workers capable of bringing them to the next level. By teaching students how to code, the folks in Silicon Valley believe that they’re creating “the wizards of tomorrow”. This effort is similar to the efforts in New York City, where Mayor Bloomberg just announced that 20 schools will be taking advantage of their Software Engineering Pilot program.

[via LA Times]

This movie will show how Fairchild Semiconductor made the integrated circuit which pushed the United States forward as the top superpower in both space exploration and personal computers – and the revolution therein. Back in 1957 is when this documentary begins, and straight forward through one of the most powerful of those directly influenced by Noyce, Steve Jobs, and the mobile age it will go.

This documentary follows Noyce and the “Traitorous Eight” who founded Fairchild Semiconductor: Gordon Moore, Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last. This documentary is directed by Randall MacLowry and will be making its first appearance on television in February 2013 (on the 5th, as mentioned previously). You’ll find that October 4th, 1957, will be much more significant in your mind from your first viewing forward.

“On October 4, 1957, the young founders of the newly minted start-up heard some startling news: the Soviet Union had just launched the first artificial satellite into orbit around the earth. With the United States scrambling to catch up, the timing couldn’t have been better for the upstarts at Fairchild. Eisenhower quickly launched NASA and the nation’s new obsession with technology provided the opportunity of a lifetime. In less than two years, Noyce would co-create a groundbreaking invention that would help put men on the moon. But Noyce’s innovation — the integrated circuit — would have an impact far beyond the Apollo program. The integrated circuit, also known as the microchip, would re-shape the future, making possible the invention of smart phones and digital video recorders, pacemakers and microwaves possible, and launching the world into the Information Age.”

Have a peek at the trailer above and make sure you tune in when the time comes. Let us know if you plan on picking up this epic journey on your antiquated television set or if you’re going to go mobile and see how easy it is to get this documentary about the future here in the past!

[via TechCrunch]

What you’ll find here is that of course, Moore’s Law can’t go on forever. There is a time when there’s nowhere to go but to different materials of course, and you can’t make computing power on no matter at all. The limits of silicon are about to be reached as we reach the limits of Moore’s Law as well. Kaku explains in the video below that once we get to processes that are 5nm, we’ve got nowhere to go with silicon as anything smaller will overheat much too quickly.

You’ll also year Kaku speak about what we’re probably going to end up working with in the future. There’s protein computers, computers that work with DNA, and molecular computers. Don’t forget quantum computers, just one of many radical ideas that have not yet come to fruition because we’ve not yet exhausted what we’ve got on the silicon tip. Kaku notes that we’ll almost certainly start seeing the following:

“If I were to put money on the table, I would say that in the next ten years we’ll simply tweak Moore’s Law a bit with chip-like computers in three dimensions, but beyond that we may have to go to molecular computers and perhaps late in the 21st century quantum computers.” – Kaku

What do you think, folks? Will we be moving away from this limited factory process sooner than 10 years or will we stick with it even with its given limits? Where does the current process end? And will we continue to need more processing power into the future, or will we simply become satisfied at some point? I think you know the answer to that last question right here and now, no doubt!

[via Big Think]

This device has a 5 megapixel camera and no front-facing camera, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich along with Sense UI 4.0 on top. This is part of the most advanced line of devices to have been revealed by HTC, and is what HTC is banking on to make them taken back the flagship in the Android world. This device has hardware that makes it look sharp, 120.3 x 59.7 x 9.24 mm making this device an ultra-thin device with 512 MB of ram backing it up.

The HTC One line comes with 25GB of Dropbox storage for a full two years, the same amount of time you’ve got on your contract from your mobile carrier. We’ll be taking a much closer look at this device and its entire set of components very, very soon. Stay tuned to SlashGear for all the MWC 2012 and HTC news you can handle all week long. Barcelona is full of surprises, not least of all in the world of HTC!