Tablets are terrific tools that are also fun to use but there are definitely limits to how much you should let your children interact with them. The Telegraph brings us word that the U.K.-based Association of Teachers and Lecturers is claiming that children who spend too much time using tablets are unable to play with standard blocks or write with pens and paper. What's more, they say young children who spend all night playing tablet games find it impossible to pay attention in classrooms because they're seemingly going through withdrawal from being constantly visually stimulated by bright displays.
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NSA says tech giants knew about its spying efforts
The NSA on Wednesday said “unequivocally” that U.S. tech giants were “fully aware” of the agency’s data collecting operations, The Guardian reports, even though tech companies denied having any knowledge of the Prism program, or helping the NSA in any way. In fact, since the Edward Snowden leaks hit papers and the Internet, tech companies have tried to reassure customers that their privacy is very important to them by either enabling encryption for their online services, asking the government to allow them to disclose the volume and type of data they share with the agencies, and/or campaigning against the NSA’s bulk data collection efforts.
Posted in 2014 at 03:45AM, March 21
Microsoft’s Cortana: A personal assistant who doesn’t stalk you
Microsoft wants its soon-to-be-released Cortana to help you... but only as much as you want it to. The Verge's Tom Warren has a nice scoop that details how Microsoft plans to make Cortana the privacy-friendly personal assistant that will specifically ask you what type of information that you want to share before storing it in its virtual notebook.
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Posted in 2014 at 03:45AM, February 21
Amazon comes up with an ingenious way to get you to buy more stuff
Remember how we asked ourselves a little bit earlier how Apple, Google and Microsoft all make money? Well, we're about to ask the same thing about Amazon and the answer is incredibly obvious: Amazon makes money by getting you to buy as much stuff through Amazon at all hours of the day for any conceivable reason.
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Posted in 2014 at 03:45AM, February 07
Target hack not possible without some old-school theft
The massive hack that hit Target in the weeks before Christmas 2013 wouldn’t have been possible without someone actually stealing the credentials of a vendor, Reuters revealed. “The ongoing forensic investigation has indicated that the intruder stole a vendor’s credentials, which were used to access our system,” Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said, without revealing what was taken.
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Posted in 2014 at 03:45AM, January 31
Intel’s voice recognition tech set to leave Siri in the dust
Siri, Apple's voice-enabled personal assistant software, was very cool when it first came out but it hasn't exactly aged gracefully. For one thing, it's slow compared to other voice recognition services and for another it needs an Internet connection to function at all. Quartz reports that Intel is working on voice recognition technology that's designed to be both faster than Siri and to work without an Internet connection so you can use it wherever you need it.
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Posted in 2014 at 03:45AM, January 29
Educators warn tablets are wrecking kids’ motor skills