States, Districts Eye Chance to Craft Innovative Tests – Education Week

Buzz builds around a pilot program under the Every Student Succeeds Act that aims to jump-start the next generation of assessments. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More The post States, Districts Eye Chance to Craft Innovative Tests – Education Week appeared first on Parent Security Online. View full post […]

North Korea’s Punggye-ri Facility Appears Ready to Support New Nuclear Tests

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Jack Liu. Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates continued activity at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site that does not appear directed at further tunnel excavation but rather to maintain existing tunnels as well as to clean up after the […]

More Rockets in Kim Jong Un’s Pockets: North Korea Tests A New Artillery System

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On Friday, March 4, North Korea showed off a new “large-caliber” artillery rocket system. In this context, large-caliber probably means between 300-400 mm. North Korea appears to have tested the system from its coastal test range at Wonsan, with the projectiles flying about 150 km. Although […]

The Challenge of Predicting Future North Korean Nuclear Tests

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Jack Liu. Summary The latest North Korean nuclear test at the Punggye-ri test site apparently surprised the international community as there were few indicators seen before it took place. Unlike the 2013 test, when heavy activity was seen in […]

Will it bend? Apple iPhone 6s/Plus drop, water and assorted torture tests

Come on in, torture lovers! Brace yourselves, the iPhone drop, stab, burn and bend tests have arrived, and no 7000-series aluminum can save the newest Apple handset from the 15-minutes-of-fame seekers out there. We’ve compiled a shortlist of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus destruction efforts that prove once and for all that when glass hits […]

Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 seemingly survives drop and water tests

Announced by Xiaomi earlier in August, the Redmi Note 2 is an upper-mid-range smartphone that’s sold at an incredibly low price. Although it’s officially available only in China (at least for now), you can pre-order the Redmi Note 2 from almost anywhere in the world via third-party retailers, though you’ll have to pay a bit […]

Project Ara’s delay may be due to phones failing drop tests

Google confirmed earlier this week that the first market pilot for its Project Ara modular smartphone would be pushed back from late 2015 to sometime in 2016. Now a new message on the project’s official Twitter account may have revealed that the reason for the delay was due in part to those smartphones failing drop […]