Six-year-old aces Microsoft exams

In this week's Worldwide Wrap, an English child thinks Microsoft is child's play, Yelp branches into healthcare data, and a new smartwatch displays messages in braille.

Humza Shahzad, a six-year-old from London, has passed three Microsoft professional exams since May, and says he found them easy.

Although both parents helped him prepare for the first exam, his mother says he learned for the subsequent tests by himself.

Shahzad is the youngest person in the world to pass the Microsoft exams in all three categories: Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Via: BBC

US reviews Web site Yelp now offers healthcare data, such as waiting times at emergency rooms, whether the hospital staff are friendly, and whether the hospital rooms are quiet.

For nursing homes, Yelp publishes additional information such as whether the institution has been fined by the federal government for not meeting certain requirements.

The update is currently available on the site's desktop version only, although the company says it is coming to its mobile app soon.
Via: Mashable

A new smartwatch could allow visually impaired users to read their messages without having to play them out loud.

The Dot, from a Korean startup of the same name, is a wearable with perforated holes featuring magnets and pins which rise to form the content of messages in braille.

The device could make braille-enabled tech more available to visually impaired users, who currently have to fork out up to $3 000 for a braille-equipped portable computer. The Dot will retail for just $300 when it goes to market in December.
Via: Mashable

The social network has banned six forums, or "subreddits," which form the core of its white-supremacist community and have long benefited from the site's notoriously negligent approach to moderation.

This approach was underlined by the company's new chief executive Steve Huffman, who explained: "We didn't ban them for being racist. We banned them because we have to spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with them."

Before being banned, the largest of the subreddits had amassed over 20 000 subscribers, making it the second-largest white-supremacist community on the Internet.
Via: The Guardian

A study by four French and Belgian security researchers has found that a user's remaining battery life could be used by Web sites to track individual users.

Web sites have access to this information through a little-known HTML5 feature, which was introduced to help users by giving Web sites the option to disable extraneous, battery-heavy site features when they can see a user's battery is low.

However considerate the intentions behind this feature, the report speculates it could negatively impact users' right to privacy.
Via: The Guardian

A new social media craze has revealed it is possible to create a small hologram using only one's smartphone and a prism crafted from a clear plastic CD case.

Impressive results filmed and shared online have garnered excited admiration from social media users.
Via: Wired