Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children
Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children - The New York Times - 0 views
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“The average 8- to 10-year-old spends nearly eight hours a day with a variety of different media, and older children and teenagers spend more than 11 hours per day.”
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Before age 2, children should not be exposed to any electronic media, the pediatrics academy maintains, because “a child’s brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens.”
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Meet the Robots That Will Help Run a Tokyo Airport - 0 views
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Last week, Japan’s ominously named robotics company Cyberdyne announced new technologies it’ll start rolling out at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport in September: Two robots, one exoskeleton. One robot shuttles unwieldy luggage, another cleans the facility, and the exo assists with heavy lifting.
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Japan’s government actively funds robotics R&D, with aims to triple the nation’s robotics market to $22 billion in the next six years, and is keen on showing off some impressive technology at Tokyo’s Summer Olympics in 2020
FuturePundit: Regulations For Offspring Genetic Engineering - 0 views
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The prospect of genetically much altered future generations is no longer in the distant science fiction future but rather in the "some of the people reading this will live to see it on large scale" future.
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Some more competitive governments might mandate genetic editing to put a floor on intelligence. Want a first class high tech economy? Allow no kid below 120 IQ. The first government to do that will have the highest per capita income economy in the world 50 years later if not much sooner.
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My expectation is that differences in regulatory response to germ line genetic engineering technologies will cause the populations of the world's various countries to diverge in a variety of ways that will be immediately visibl
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in the highly delicate mater of genetic engineering that might become a reality sooner that one might expect, how would the individual governments react? And is this an internal affair that is to be handled inside the country that might get the first access to the high-end bio engineering technology.
Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA? | Popular Science - 0 views
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In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson’s patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made a similar deal for the genomes of 5,000 people with lupus.
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A trove of data could give scientists the tools they need to develop gene-specific drug therapies for certain diseases. “We are hoping to ultimately develop Parkinson’s medicines, for example, that actually modify the disease as opposed to just treating symptoms,”
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“this has the possibility of not only helping us find new cures, but it also helps us create a genuine health care system as opposed to just a disease care system.”
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Nickelodeon hopes SpongeBob SquarePants will get kids coding | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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Nickelodeon UK’s launch of a website called Code-It that aims to teach programming skills to 6-12 year-olds.
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While they will earn badges for their progress through the site’s set lessons, children will also be able to write their own programs animating the characters, and share them with their peers.
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In May 2014, producer Aardman Animations launched Shaun’s Game Academy - a website challenging children to create and share their own games
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Microsoft HoloLens: Real life holograms unveiled as part of Windows 10 - News - Gadgets... - 0 views
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Microsoft unveiled a new hologram platform today as part of its new operating system
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The holographic software is built into Windows 10 already, the company said. Though Microsoft is working on its own hardware, the platform will also work for other virtual reality software like Oculus Rift and Google Glass
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Microsoft executive built a virtual flying drone, which the company then showed could be 3D printed. Alex Kipman, who helped lead the project, called it “print preview for 3D printing”.
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Microsoft tackles the field of VR headsets
The Airbnb vs. New York hearing: Lots of yelling, no decisions - 0 views
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The City Council's Housing and Buildings Committee heard testimony Tuesday from residents, housing advocates, city officials and companies about the effects of the growing industry on the city.
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In November 2014, about 15,300 New York City listings were entire homes or apartments representing about 59% of the available listings on the site that month, according to Slee. There were also 9,704 listings for private rooms, and 753 listings for shared rooms. The analysis also showed that 2,764 users were renting out two or more units, which opponents have cited as evidence the service is helping illegal hotels. More than 200 users were renting out five units or more
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Airbnb is calling for "smart regulation," which it has had success with in cities including Portland, Oregon; San Jose and San Francisco, California; Amsterdam; and Paris. Airbnb collects lodging tax directly from hosts in those cities, and several local governments have passed laws that allow short-term rentals in some form.
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The first around-the-world flight in a solar airplane will launch this March | The Verge - 0 views
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In around two months, the team behind the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 will attempt the first ever around-the-world flight powered only by sunlight.
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After taking off in Abu Dhabi, the Solar Impulse 2 will make stops in Oman, India, Myanmar, China, the US, and Southern Europe or North Africa before landing back in Abu Dhabi sometime in August.
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The Solar Impulse 2's across-the-world flight should clock 500 hours total flight time and around 21,748 miles
Российские мультсериалы начнут показывать в кинотеатрах - 1 views
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Этой весной российские кинотеатры начнут показывать мультсериалы. Об этом с киносетями договорились детский канал «Мульт» и компания «Центральное телевидение»
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Первыми будут показаны «Маша и Медведь», «Фиксики», «Белка и Стрелка», «Паровозов», «Летающие звери»
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Это будут короткие сеансы по 45 минут из нескольких серий мультфильмов. Сборники будут обновляться два раза в месяц,
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Using ToyTalk Technology, New Hello Barbie Will Have Real Conversations With Kids | Fas... - 1 views
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I've posted earlier about this ToyTalk company, they are founded by the guy who worked at Pixar for 20 years. The company develops the speech recognition technology, signed their first deal with a big toy company - Mattel. They are going to develop Barbie doll that will be able to sustain meaningful conversations with kids
Dawn of the iCar? Apple said to be secretly working on design for an electric people-ca... - 0 views
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Hundreds of people at Apple are said to be secretly working on a design for an electric people-carrier which has been given the code name “Titan”. So far, the technology firm has declined to comment on the project
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The Titan project was reportedly signed off almost a year ago by Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook, who has assigned vice president of product design, Steve Zadesky, to lead the group
Futures of text - 0 views
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a good piece on how the text communication might transform in the near future and why texting might remain a more comfortable way to interact with the device then voice
YouTube Kids App Blasted as 'Deceptive' by Consumer Groups | Variety - 0 views
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Google’s YouTube Kids app, which offers a walled garden of content aimed at the 5-and-under set, is the target of a coalition of consumer groups urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the service as a potential violation of rules about advertising to children
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“Many of the video segments endorsing toys, candy and other products that appear to be ‘user-generated’ have undisclosed relationships with product manufacturers in v
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iolation of the FTC’s guidelines concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising,
BBC - Future - Is e-waste an untapped treasure? - 0 views
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Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem
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Yet many are realising that the gadgets we chuck away can be ripped apart and transformed into something new – brand new technology, or even art.
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Using parts and wires from old computers, scanners and photocopiers (some of it for free, but most bought), and an Arduino electronics card as the brain, they managed to put together a working prototype for a few hundred euros (see below).
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in 2012 china alone produced 11.1 mlm tones of e-waste, what can be considered trash in one part of the world, can indeed become a treasure in the other part of the world
Biosensing Films And Smartphones Let Doctors Diagnose Disease From Anywhere - 0 views
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Researchers from Florida Atlantic University have created a sensitive film that can detect viruses and bacteria, such as HIV and Staph, at home.
Indian Police are Asking Citizens to Periscope Crimes as They Happen | Gizmodo UK - 0 views
I quantified my baby and wish I could get the time back - 1 views
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It’s part of an experiment to see if technology can help with the daunting and seemingly Sisyphean tasks of a first time parent, to find out why a growing number of people are turning to gadgets to help with one of life's toughest jobs.
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Attempting to simplify parenthood with gizmos and apps has perversely made it a lot more complicated. And as for peace of mind, forget it.
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The concept of the “quantified baby” has been around for some time now, and there’s a large and growing market for smart infant products from anxious or diligent or curious new parents.
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does using all the tech can offer to monitor your infant health make you a better parent or ease the toughest job in the world. Based on the article - not really
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