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Ethiopian Children Hack Tablet PCs, Start Teaching Themselves English Within Months

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.

H/T Jordan Keith

Source: DVice. Read full article. (link)

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