Tomb Raider creator to open two free schools with digital focus
Games magnate Ian Livingstone’s schools in London and Bournemouth will teach latest in technology and creative thinking
Marvin Minsky obituary
Pioneer of artificial intelligence research
Spotlight isn’t bad – but a film on the thalidomide scandal is the real must-see journalism drama
Sunday Times editor Harold Evans faced off with Britain’s legal and political establishment, and Scottish pharmaceuticals company Distillers, to win one of our greatest victories for free reporting in the 1970s
Lord Puttnam and Channel 4 launch MBA for media executives
Two-year course aimed at bosses in the creative industries aims at developing leaders for the digital era
Save the Children: hackathons could help fight child inequality crisis
Charity boss calls for much-needed help from tech firms as it faces the biggest child poverty and refugee crisis in decades
Global schoolchildren to be ‘teleported’ into Buckingham Palace
Monarch’s London home becomes first UK landmark in Google Expeditions Pioneer programme, offering 3D, fully immersive field trips to classrooms around the world
Eight smart ways to use social media in universities
It’s easy to dismiss apps such as Snapchat and Instagram as mere distractions, but they can work wonders for learning and teaching
Multimillion dollar humanoid robot doesn’t make for a good cleaner
Atlas robot assistant from Team IHMC has a way to go before it can perform tasks nearly as effectively as humans can
It’s time for a virtual tea break and to draw together
Most illustrators spend a lot of time alone… and many eat a lot of toast to comfort themselves. That’s why Sarah McIntyre has made a Twitter-based virtual studio tea break that everyone can join in with
Nearly half of young people fear jobs will be automated in 10 years – report
Polling of nine countries also shows 16- to 25-year-olds in developed countries less confident in IT skills than those in emerging economies
Detective Dot books aim to encourage kids to code without stereotypes
Kickstarter project battles situation where ‘in kids cartoons, 0% of princesses are engineers, 2.9% of characters are black, and Batman doesn’t recycle’
Tougher guidelines for schools to tackle online radicalisation
Government to hold consultation on strengthening statutory guidance covering the welfare of schoolchildren
A Darth Vader waffle maker? You really shouldn’t have …
Anyone who enjoys their Star Wars Stormtrooper single duvet set is unlikely ever to need a Stormtrooper double duvet set
‘Our ultimate goal is to inspire tomorrow’s inventors’
Peter Spence’s idea for a kit that lets children create app-controlled toys secured his business a £10,000 prize and has caught the eye of Microsoft
Reductive, superficial, beautiful – a historian’s view of Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
It may be visually striking, but King’s College’s Alana Harris found Ubisoft’s game seriously lacking: ‘If we’re liberating poor children, what are we liberating them to?’