Friday, January 22, 2016

What's happening in the world of technology? Find, read and summarize an article pertaining to this topic. Remember to include the link!

31 comments:

  1. microsoft is make Mincraft into a class room learning game with a new software MincraftEdu MIncraft can be used for just about anything like showing how the civl war happen to learning how to use cornets and mincraftedu will make it easier to learn them.

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/19/technology/microsoft-minecraft-education/index.html

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  2. The SpaceX spaceship Dragon vessel has passed another key test. The craft fired its thrusters and hovered for five seconds. showing its control. the craft is designed to shuttle astronauts and to act as a life boat.
    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video-shows-spacex-spaceship-astronauts-passing-key-hover/story?id=36446481

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  3. Amazon is now offering full refunds on all hoverboards. The amount of complaints and technical difficulties from hoverboards have been increasing. The electrical faults in hoverboards has been causing numerous fires across the United States. They are also increasing reports of serious injuries. A 15 year old died in December from riding a hoverboard and was hit by a bus.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35382237

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  4. Google recently paid Apple 1 billion dollars to keep google the default search engine on all apple devices. This was not in the original agreement, but was later added. Comments about the search engine appeared this week. It is said that google doesn't manage its adds well enough. Bringing up the question is google the right search engine for Apple.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35380696

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  5. Nearly 300,000 new drones have been registered in the past 30 days, so we may see an increase of these in our skies. The reason for this spike is because the government is now requiring registration in order to fly.
    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/22/technology/faa-drone-registrations/index.html?iid=SF_LN

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  6. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35382237
    Those stupid "hover-boards" everybody bought are blowing up and now Amazon is giving people refunds. America.

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  7. Two of the Navy's new ships are breaking down. Each of the ships cost about 360 million each. The breakdowns have left the ships in port. One of the ships name is the USS Milwaukee. It broke down in the Atlantic 40 miles from a navel base in Virginia.
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/25/politics/u-s-navy-littoral-combat-ship-problems/index.html

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  8. There is a new toilet that opens when you walk up to it and cleans itself with every flush. It also cleans the user with an aerated wand, which delivers warm water and warm air. It is $9,800 and more than 40 million versions of the toilet have been sold.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35258674

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  9. A new smartphone called the Oukitel K10000 recently came out, and it's claimed that the battery can last up to 10 or 15 days. The battery should hold 4x more of a charge than the Galaxy S6, and five and a half times the charge of the iPhone 6. To charge the phone completely, it takes about 3.5 hours. The K10000 is the "world's largest battery capacity smartphone." Other than the large battery capacity, it doesn't seem like the phone has a lot of other new features, so except the battery, it's not a whole lot better than any other smartphone.

    http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/14/technology/oukitel-smartphone-battery/index.html

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  10. Amazon is now offering full refunds for customers who bought hoverboards, the popular electric self-balancing riding devices which have been implicated in multiple fires and explosions.

    The Consumer Product Safety Commission so far has investigated 40 such incidents.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/01/21/amazon-offers-full-refunds-hoverboards/79135328/

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  11. Over the weekend, New York received 27 inches of snow due to Jonas, the storm that wiped out the East Coast with snow. Happn, a dating app, messages was up 139%. In New York likes were up 66%, in Philadelphia where they received 22 inches of snow, messaging was up 342% and likes were up 95%.

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/25/technology/dating-apps-blizzard-jonas/index.html

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  12. There have been leaked images of the new iPhone mini 5SE. It is the same size as the iPhone 5 but it has all of the same features as the latest iPhone 6s. They think it will be successful because of its's size. The iPhone 5 is the only 4 inch iPhone out there and it will be 3 years old in September. The iPhone 7 will also be coming out in the fall.

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/25/technology/iphone-5se/index.html

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  14. Scientist at Virginia Tech have found a way to reduce frost on airplane wings and windshields. It was inspired by the Namib Desert beetle, a beetle that can collect water in one of the hottest deserts in the world. They do this by overlaying water-attractive patterns on a slick water-repelling surface.

    http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/01/22/New-frost-reduction-technology-inspired-by-desert-beetle/2251453489241/

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  15. Newest phone will have new programs that involse with knowing traffic and works under water and can show you what the other person is typing.

    http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/emerging-phone-technologies.htm

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  16. Microsoft is making Minecraft into a classroom learning game. They are creating a new software "Minecraftedu." It can show students how the civil war happened and also other harsh incidence.
    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/19/technology/microsoft-minecraft-education/index.html

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  17. Google Chrome is about to get much faster. The update contains a new data compression algorithm called Brotli, which Google first unveiled in September. It squishes the size of a website down by 26% more than Chrome's previous compression tool, Zopfli.

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/21/technology/google-chrome-faster/index.html

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  18. There is a new machine for picking fruits. It can pick fruits by its self. It is set up to do every thing by its self and it won't destroy the fruit that it picks.
    http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/01/26/robot-arm-sorts-and-stacks-delicate-frui?videoId=367177284&videoChannel=6

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  19. eSight glasses w=help people with vision impairment, see. The glasses work by recording a high definition video and then displayed on a two screen headset. You can add zoom and contrast. One user said, "It's like I'm watching a recording of my life when I wear these glasses.

    http://www.13abc.com/home/headlines/New-technology-is-helping-people-with-vision-impairments-see-366614781.html

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  20. My Little Pony toymaker, Hasbro, is being sued by a fonts company for it's use of a certain font without permission. Font Brothers says the manufacturer failed to buy a "special licence" to allow the font's use on its toy packaging and related services.
    The company is seeking damages of $150,000 per violation.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35412978

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  21. People are freaking out over the price of the new Oculus Rift which is a new Virtual gaming thing that goes around your eyes and uses your hand motion as well. It was priced well over expectation which brought outcry from gamers.

    http://gadgets.ndtv.com/wearables/opinion/public-outcry-over-the-oculus-rift-price-misses-the-point-794977

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  22. All around the world, iPad, iPhone, and Mac cunstomers who got the latest iOS update have been having problems with safari. It has been crashing. The web browswer has been down for seven hours. At 10:45 yesterday morning, they had noticed that the browser had been crashing.

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/27/technology/iphone-safari-crash-apple/index.html

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  23. A sneak peak image of the four inch iphone 5SE was released yesterday. It is suppose to have a batter life span than any other iphone. The new iphone 5SE also has new screen which is suppose to be a little 3D.

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/25/technology/iphone-5se/index.html

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  24. Facebook impressed Wall Street with its latest earnings report on Wednesday, sending shares up more than 8% after hours.During the last three months of 2015, Facebook brought in $5.8 billion -- growth of 52%. But it made $1.6 billion in profit -- 123% increase from a year earlier.

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  25. An app that can study people's facial expressions and emotional responses could be helpful in detecting autism signs in children. An iPhone app called "Autism & Beyond" was developed by scientists and software developers at Duke University. It uses mathematical algorithms to detect people's facial expressions and emotional cues based on muscle movements.

    http://www.livescience.com/53511-iphone-app-could-spot-autism-signs.html

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  26. Apple has recalled millions of their two-pronged wall plugs that go with iphones and other ios devices. The plugs that apple are recalling range from 2003 to 2015. This effects most of Europe, but not the US.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35432682

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  27. Basketball has been introduced to a new technology called the "ESPN Virtual 3." It is only in the NBA and it lights up when a shooter takes a three point shot so the crowd of people can see if a three point shot was attempted .If a three pointer is made, the arc line will light up for a small period of time and if it is missed, it will stop lighting up. Its debut will be tomorrow when the Cleveland Cavaliers go against the San Antonio Spurs.
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2016/01/28/new-technology-to-virtually-light-up-3-point-line-on-abc/79468406/

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  28. There is now an app made by apple called "Autism and Beyond." The app studies facial expressions and social interactions of kids. It could one day be helpful in finding autism signs in kids.

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  29. http://www.livescience.com/53511-iphone-app-could-spot-autism-signs.html

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  30. There is a cool new keyboard called the McCarthy piano. It has audio and illuminated light keys. It has the ability to teach you piano. It is priced at $600.00
    http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/11/24/coolest-gadgets-2015/36.html

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  31. An Austrian man Kristof Retezár invented a self filling water bottle called 'the Fontus water bottle'.


    https://www.rt.com/news/330507-self-filling-water-bottle/

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