Why Screen Time Before Bed Is Bad for Children
Sleep is an essential part of our development and wellbeing. It is important for learning and memory, emotions and behaviours, and our health more generally. Yet the total amount of sleep that children...
View ArticleTech Bloggers Aren’t Trading Praise for Free Stuff
Even if bloggers accept compensation or free products for reviews, those perks don’t necessarily lead to endorsements, report researchers. In a study, most technology bloggers who have accepted...
View ArticleNew United Airlines CEO Faces Long List of Challenges
The new CEO of United Airlines faces a daunting list of problems he must fix, including late flights and technology that too often suffers embarrassing outages. But if Oscar Munoz listens to people who...
View ArticleUS Energy Technology Exports Could Send Risks With It
America’s energy landscape has dramatically changed over the last four years, with significant advancements in technologies across multiple energy sectors helping to produce a wider range of energy...
View ArticleScreen Time for Kids: 5 Ways for Parents to Manage Technology at Home
How reliant are your children on their digital devices? How much time do they spend staring at screens? For years, experts have been warning parents about the dangers of “screen time” to their kids....
View ArticleCredit Cards Will Change Forever Starting Next Month: What You Need to Know
You may not realize it, but the beginning of the end of traditional credit cards is near. Business Insider has put together a massive guide about credit cards’ shift to EMV technology starting next...
View ArticleWhy Europe Isn’t Creating Any Googles or Facebooks
HELSINKI—Micha Benoliel grew up in France and launched his first technology startup there, but he never forgot the atmosphere of adventure and optimism in San Francisco, where he studied in the early...
View ArticleTo Change Our Economy We Need to Change Our Thinking
It’s not surprising that new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment has been well received by the startup community. When he talks about the Australia of the future being agile,...
View ArticleUS Regulator Missed Its Best Chance to Catch VW Cheating
CHICAGO—More than a decade ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency helped develop a technology that ultimately was used by an independent laboratory to catch Volkswagen’s elaborate cheating on...
View ArticleThe Perverse Rise of Killer Robots
The development of “killer robots” is a new and original way of using human intelligence for perverse means. Humans creating machines to kill and destroy on a scale not yet imagined is a concept that...
View ArticleRise of the Humans: Intelligence Amplification Will Make Us as Smart as Machines
In January this year Microsoft announced the HoloLens, a technology based on virtual and augmented reality (AR). HoloLens supplements what you see with overlaid 3-D images. It also uses artificial...
View ArticleCybersecurity Firm: Chinese Hacking on US Companies Persists
WASHINGTON—Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its...
View ArticleThree New Technologies That Could Change the Way We Live
In the weeks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, not only are delegates meeting and hammering out proposed climate plans, but scientists and researchers are...
View ArticleGoogle Antsy as California Slow on Self-Driving Car Rules
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the Department of Motor Vehicles. The...
View ArticleWhy Government and Tech Can’t Agree About Encryption
NEW YORK—Your phone is getting better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn’t totally comfortable with that, because it’s also complicating the work of tracking criminals and...
View ArticleVoice Recognition Is the First Step to Better A.I.
Voice recognition software continues to transform our lives in very real and important ways. The ability for a machine to translate and understand voice commands is the first step in an ever-growing...
View ArticleGrowing Push to Expose More Students to Computer Science
MARYSVILLE, Wash.—Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the “run” button and watches as the...
View ArticleThe Smart-Tech Future Beckons to Us From the CES Gadget Show
LAS VEGAS—Look around. How many computing devices do you see? Your phone, probably; maybe a tablet or a laptop. Your car, the TV set, the microwave, bedside alarm clock, possibly the thermostat, and...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Think and Could a Machine Ever Do It?
The idea of a thinking machine is an amazing one. It would be like humans creating artificial life, only more impressive because we would be creating consciousness. Or would we? It’s tempting to think...
View ArticleWe Can—and Should—Scan the Brains of Police Officers for Racist Attitudes
Can functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans and other technology currently being tested on U.S. troops by the military be used to screen police recruits for hidden racist attitudes?...
View ArticleWhat Does It Take to Become a Black Mark Zuckerberg?
NEW YORK—Jhamar Youngblood didn’t want to be a nerd. He was a basketball player, a rapper. But he really, really liked math and computers. Such interests were problematic for an African-American child...
View ArticleAdvanced Science Found on 2,300-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets
Babylonian cuneiform tablets from 350 to 50 B.C. show sophisticated calculations used to locate Jupiter. “The idea of computing a body’s displacement as an area in time-velocity space is usually traced...
View ArticleFaster-Than-Light Communication: A Theory
Albert Einstein’s General and Special Relativity theories state that nothing may travel faster than light. This seems to imply that we can never send information instantaneously; at most, it can only...
View ArticleViral: Parent Carries Out ‘Experiment’ to Urge Mothers to Reconsider...
A young mother from Lakeside, California, decided to conduct an experiment to determine the role of technology in the household. Brandie Wood shared a Facebook post about her observations while...
View ArticleIf You’re Using an ASUS Router, Your Data May Have Been Viewable by Anyone
If your Internet connection is going through a router from ASUS, your router—and all your information passing through it—may have been viewable by anyone in the world. ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. agreed to...
View ArticleChinese Father’s Plan to Build a ‘Nature School’ Gets Widespread Support
A father in China is on a mission to free his children from computer games and cement walls, instead allowing them to listen to the sounds of cicadas and watch fireflies. The “school without walls,” or...
View ArticleProgram Will Give Safe Smartphones to Australian Victims of Domestic Violence
Technology has been a tool for abuse towards victims of domestic violence, but a new program in Australia is empowering women. The country’s prime minister announced that the government will allocate...
View ArticleGoogle Puts Products on Display in Cuba
Google has announced a partnership with Havana, Cuba’s Museo Orgánico Romerillo. The museum will have an installation of Google Cardboards, low-cost virtual reality headsets, and Chromebooks available...
View ArticleTraditional Business Models Won’t Survive a Robot Takeover
Just a few decades ago, employers sought typists, operators, and mimeograph repair technicians. Companies nowadays want webmasters, LAN operators, and programmers. New developments for these industries...
View ArticleAutomation Won’t Destroy Jobs, but It Will Change Them
The last few years have seen numerous studies pointing to a bleak future with technology-induced unemployment on the rise. For example, a pivotal 2013 study by researchers at the University of Oxford...
View ArticleThe Marketing Corner: Tech Buzz
Our world is constantly evolving. If you have trouble believing this, just check out the social chatter from a few weeks ago. It was dominated by users who were describing some of their interaction...
View ArticleIs Death Reversible?
Death is defined as the termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Brain death, the complete and irreversible loss of brain function (including involuntary activity...
View ArticleNew Smart Mirror Takes a 3D Body Scan and Tracks Fitness
You can now own a smart mirror that generates a 3D model of your body, instantly. California start-up Naked Labs opened pre-orders on April 14 for the home use 3D body scanner, which looks just like a...
View ArticleSmart Earpiece Can Instantly Translate Any Language
One company believes its product can create “a world without language barriers.” Read MoreVideo: Husband Communicates With His Wife for the First Time in Years After two years of research and...
View ArticleSamsung Introduces Bendable Phones That May Be Released in 2017: Report
Samsung Electronics Co. is introducing new bendable smartphone models that could be made public as early as 2017, according to Bloomberg, per anonymous sources. The devices will use OLED, or organic...
View ArticleVast, Ancient Cities Beneath Cambodian Jungle Change History Books
Archaeologists in Cambodia have found medieval cities between 900 and 1,400 years old buried beneath Cambodia’s jungle floor. The cities are considered a groundbreaking discovery that will change...
View ArticleGoogle as Your Doctor?
Have a peculiar pain but don’t know what to do about it? Millions turn to Google when searching for information on symptoms they are experiencing, and now the company will make it easier. Individuals...
View ArticleApple Could Prevent iPhone Users From Recording at Concerts
It is a common phenomenon at concerts—a wave of hands holding their phones in the air to capture some footage, or even record the event in its entirety. But artists are losing out as videos get shared...
View Article10 Sci-Fi Writers Who Successfully Predicted Transport Technology (Infographic)
H.G. Wells anticipated the tank. The movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” anticipated commercial space flight (albeit more than 16 years earlier than it will actually happen, since the first one is supposed...
View ArticleApple to Allow Organ Donors to Sign Up on Health App
If you haven’t signed up to be an organ donor at the DMV, you will still be able to do so—on your iPhone. Apple will let iPhone users sign up to be organ, eye, and tissue donors through its health app...
View ArticleFormer Gov’t Officials Discuss Unidentified Aerial Phenomena at Disclosure...
BRANTFORD, Canada—Former high-level government officials were among the panelists at a June 25 hearing calling for disclosure of any remaining classified government information on unidentified aerial...
View ArticleBest Marketing Automation Software for Small Business
Marketing automation is increasing in market growth and adoption. According to eMailMonday on average 49 percent of companies are currently using marketing automation and more than half of business to...
View ArticleChinese Company Backs North Korean Nukes | China Uncensored
You know, one of the best decisions I ever made was moving from Los Angeles to New York. Why? Within a few years, North Korea may be able to nuke the West Coast of the United States. But according to...
View ArticleChina’s Plan to Send Tourists into Space | China Uncensored
Space: the final frontier. And guess which country is going to conquer it? After all, the legendary Chang’e flew to the moon several thousand years ago, which definitely makes the moon a part of...
View ArticleChinese Leaders Fear Military Revolt | China Uncensored
Protesters sure are a pain. Unless you’re the Chinese Communist Party. Then protesters are easily dealt with. Except of course when the protesters are military veterans. Yes, over 1,000 People’s...
View Article10 Insane Solutions to China’s Deadly Smog | China Uncensored
China has some of the worst pollution in the world. According to independent research group, Berkeley Earth, 4,000 people a day die in China because of air pollution. That’s about 17% of all deaths....
View ArticleCyberattack That Took Liberia Offline Was Likely Just a Test
The entire internet of a small country was nearly taken out on Nov. 2 by one of the largest cyberattacks ever documented. Cybersecurity researchers worry that the attack on Liberia was merely a group...
View Article10 Insane Solutions to China’s Deadly Smog (Part 2) | China Uncensored
China has declared war on pollution. The Chinese regime is pumping $277 billion dollars into coming up with solutions for the smog problem. Along with, you know, all the coal they’re pumping into the...
View ArticleMore Harm Than Good—Our High Tech Tools and Their Impact on Our Families
As 2016 rounds the corner to the finish line, few of us can say we haven’t spent a significant portion of this year gazing at screens. That’s especially so for teenagers. In fact, according to the...
View ArticleTrump Slaps China Over North Korea | China Uncensored
Last weekend, North Korean dictator and inventor of the Chairman Mao high fade Kim Jong-un announced that his military was close to testing a ballistic missile with the capability to reach the United...
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