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Facebook heads have launched a new 'search engine' for those using Facebook. Entitled 'Graph Search', this engine allows users to type in specific tags to find users that fall under a specific group. The tags include things such as age, location, relationship status, and other similar traits. The Facebook developers should have seen this as an issue from the very start of the project. Many executives and onlookers anticipated that this engine will cause issues, especially with youth. The main concern being privacy. Facebook claims that only users who opt into this feature will show up on the results, but for mindless teenagers who click accept on anything simply out of haste, this could cause an issue. Although there has been no recorded cases yet, this engine opens the door for sexual predators on Facebook, allowing them to easily search for 'Women under 18 in my area' and similar search options. CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself claimed that they are heightening privacy settings for this engine, but there are still concerns to be had. This new feature is obviously a ploy to send more information to advertising companies and other Facebook partners. Facebook is renown for sending information and demographics of it's users to paying companies, but with Graph Search, anyone can do it themselves, including said companies. Facebook is finding new ways to sell out their user base, while still looking like the 'good guy'. Although it has it's benefits for the honest users that want to use it for social purposes, Graph Search is a very bad decision. If it wasn't apparent to you before, now is the time to get off Facebook.

States in the US have been slowly gaining traction that allows gambling to be completely legal online. This would mean that anyone over 18 can sign onto an account which allows them to gamble away all the money they have. Nevada was the first state to legalize online gambling, and more states are estimated to follow suit. Although the article doesn't give an opinion on the newly legalized gambling, I believe that this news is terrible. More and more people will become addicted to gambling, and now it's very easy and very comfortable to lose your life earnings. These new rulings will eventually run into some legal issues, as people under 18 WILL find a way to gain access to these operations. There is no proper way that rules can be enforced in online gambling. People will become addicted, kids will gain access, and people will go bankrupt. Gambling is alright, in moderation, but these new laws will allow anyone with an internet connection to gamble away everything they own without even realizing it. Good thing we live in Canada.

This is article tells us how engineers have been able to create Wifi chips for phones to get Wifi easier. I think that this would be helpful because, as the article says, "Ultimately it would reduce the chip count on the cell phone, which would reduce the cost and the complexity of manufacturing of the phone and improve battery life." This is particularly good because since many of us use our phones regularly, improved battery life will be so much more helpful without having to worry about our phones dying.

This article is very interesting because i think that teens would love to join a new site where they can share content with other teens the only down fall is that you need to be 18 and up, i think most teens my age would love to join but cannot due to our age.

This article is relevant to many people because now on an android phone with the Google Chrome app installed. One does not have to type in the URL in the top bar. You now are able to just search whatever topic you want in that same bar you type the URL in. This in my opinion is much more convenient because you are not wasting pages while browsing on your android. Also, you are able to open more tabs which will help you work faster. 

This article is about Google's new tablet that will be released sometime in April this tablet is expected to cost $199, it will be 7-inch. This tablet is an update for the android 4.0. I think people would invest in this because it can do many things like IPad but is cheaper. I think people should invest in a Google branded tablet instead of the IPad beacause it can save you a lot of money.

The game Flappy Bird, created by Dong Nguyen was a rapid success. However it also followed with a rapid downfall. This article details how the game began to what it started as, an indie game created for a small nostalgic audience. It then grew to something way bigger. Dong was making more than $50,000 a week for his money. Flappy Bird was also number 1 on the app store for days straight, even then, Dong Nguyen was receiving death threats and rude remarks regarding his game. These threats and remarks kept happening so Dong was forced to remove his game off of the apple store. He is continuing to make other indie games though. Dong Nguyen said he will keep making games, and he wants to be a respected Indie game developer, not just another viral episode of the app store. Dong though, has been noticed by the indie developer that created Super Hexagon. I inferred, that a collaboration will happen between the developers. In my opinion I believe the cancellation of Flappy Bird was a publicity stunt to provide more coverage on Nguyen's other games.

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Facebook and the Washington Post Company have recently introduced a new app at Facebook's f8 conference, called the Washington Post Social Reader. The app features the ability to allow users to read and share news articles from other media sites from within Facebook itself. In simpler terms, when using the app, it will not require you to follow any other links - it can all easily be done on Facebook. It appears entirely on Facebook, and it is very convenient and easy-to-use for any user.

The Kindle Fire could be the first truly successful Android tablet. It touts a very reasonable $200 price tag, a well-curated app store, easy access to Amazons cloud-based services, brand trust and recognition. It's Amazon's most ambitious foray into hardware since the original Kindle's debut.

After half a billion tweets were analysed, it has been noted how moods tend to rise and fall 

Okay wait here's the description: After half a billion tweets were analysed, it has been noted how moods tend to rise and fall across the world. Based on the tweets sociologists and analysts have detected a pattern: positive feelings in the morning and evening, with dropping moods while users are at work. Many, however, would say that Twitter users can't simply represent humanity, but only a small part of it. All that's left is to figure out why user's moods change the way they do, and how to change that.

This article is about what were expecting from Apple this coming year. Besides Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO of Apple and leaving it all to Tim Cook, anticipation is high for the next iphone and the coming of iOS 5. i think it's safe to say that people everywhere are exciting to see what Apple has up their sleeve in 2011.

The new Firefox 7 uses 50% less memory than Firefox 6 and was released faster thanks to a faster release cycle. Firefox released firefox 7 just 6 weeks after Firefox 6. Firefox 7 stops wbsites from resizing your windows, which has a negative effect on add-ons. But Firefox doesn't seem to worried.

The Invisible Universe app was created for Androids developed by Xperia Studio. It allows you to see stuff in space that you wouldn't normally see, such as gamma rays and x-rays. It's like looking through a telescope, but on your phone, at the tip or your fingers, at your convenience, at any time. This app is great because it allows you to witness stuff in space that you really never would had this app not been invented. 

So Basically, the iPhone's have a mapping system for all of your "GPS" apps, but people think that it's too good because they think it will stalk you better than ever before, which can be scary to people.

This is also something to look at to know more about Steve Jobs and his life. Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

Before the highly anticipated book about Steve Jobs' bio by Walter Isaacson comes out. This small page shows a small peak of Steve Jobs' bio, what he says and what he will leave behind. He mentions something about Hewlett Packard, as he stated that they had created such an excellent company, but now it's being dismembered and destroyed, and he didn't want that to happen to Apple the same way. R.I.P. Steve Jobs, truly a great and different mind.

So the man who made the Artificial Intelligence research possible dies at 84. Thanks to him, we see bots in gaming and Siri actually. He will be missed.

If you send anything to people that could be illegal through cloud email, you might have an encounter with something called cops. Yes, the law enforcement have access to your cloud emails to help them with cases or anything else, beware.