CNN Week 12

In "Apple unveils iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite" Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday to announce the latest features for iPhones, iPads and Macs.Apple unveiled iOS 8, an update to the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads.

One of the biggest additions to iOS 8 is a new HealthKit application. The app will monitor users' heart rates, sleep, activity and breathing among other health-related information. But other changes are far more subtle than in years past. After last year's complete makeover, iOS 8 includes oft-requested fixes, such as interactive notifications, suggested words when typing and quicker access to contacts.With interactive notifications, iOS 8 will allow users to respond to texts or like something on Facebook directly from the notification even on the lock screen. A double tap on the home button reveals several frequent contacts, allowing you to call, message or email those people with two quick taps. And a new predictive text feature allows you to type, and iOS 8 will suggest the next word based on your typing history.

Design Brief Process

We as students have to design a bridge that is able to withstand the amount of 50 lbs. We must sketch a drawing that is either beam, arch, or a suspension bridge. Our bridge must be 12 inches long and be constructed of toothpicks and Popsicle sticks. If bridges are not strong enough to obtain a certain weight they become a problem to the public due to it being a safety hazard. The bridge also must be the same size as the sketch drawn on the graph paper. Another material we will be able to use is glue. The glue will make the sticks connect with each other in a way that they support on another.

CNN Week 11

In "Plaintiff blasts deal in Silicon Valley poaching case" by Chris Isidore a class action plaintiff in the Silicon Valley anti-poaching lawsuit has asked a judge to reject a proposed settlement, claiming it benefits the lawyers and big tech firms more than the workers who brought the case. "The tentative settlement, if it stands, amounts to big profits for plaintiffs' counsel, insulation from real liability for the defendants and locks in significant losses for the [affected tech workers]," Michael Devine wrote Sunday in a letter to the judge overseeing the case. At issue is a proposed $324 million settlement in the lawsuit against Silicon Valley tech giants. A class of 64,000 tech workers say the companies conspired to not make job offers to one another's employees.The improper anti-poaching agreement significantly reduced wages in Silicon Valley, the suit alleged.

CNN Week 10

In "Bill Gates No Longer Microsoft's Biggest Shareholder" it states that in the past two days, Gates has sold nearly 8 million shares of Microsoft, bringing down his total to roughly 330 million. That puts him behind Microsoft's former CEO Steve Ballmer who owns 333 million shares. Gates reclaims title of world's richest billionaire. Ballmer, who was Microsoft's CEO until earlier this year, was one of Gates' first hires.
It's a passing of the torch for Gates who has always been the largest single owner of his company's stock. Gates now spends his time and personal fortune helping run the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.
The foundation has spent $28.3 billion fighting hunger and poverty since its inception back in 1997.

CNN Week 9

Hackers have attacked the government agencies, defense contractors, energy companies and banks by exploiting the software flaw in Internet Explorer.Among those still using Windows XP are the Defense Department, the IRS, and bank ATMs. That's a problem, because Microsoft has taken its 12-year-old operating system off life-support, ceasing security updates. It's easy to ignore Internet security scares, especially when there's a deluge of news about them. In the month of April alone, we were bombarded with news about the pervasive Heartbleed bug, a massive AOL hack and the Internet Explorer Glitch. A typical power plant, for example, makes expensive investments on equipment that's meant to last decades. It's common to find 1970s-era software on turbines, Kennedy said. That's a danger.

CNN Week 8

In "Google Stock Sinks as Mobile Struggles Continue" by James O'Toole, explains how Google shares sank 3% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company posted first-quarter earnings and sales that missed expectations. Of particular concern was a 9% drop in payments from marketers per ad on Google sites.

The challenge for Google is convincing marketers to pay as much for mobile ads as they do for desktop ads, a task that's become increasingly pressing as Web usage shifts to smartphones.

CNN Week 7

In "How Phones Work in Flight" talks about the lack of phone calls, texts or social media postings from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which raised a number of questions about how cell phones work on airplanes. Despite the urgings of flight crews to turn off all phones or put them in airplane mode, cell phones can continue to work after a plane takes off, but only while in range of a cellular tower.

Cell phones communicate through cell towers, which are located on the ground but can stretch hundreds of feet into the air. As an airplane rises, it gets further from these towers and eventually moves out of contact range. For efficiency, many towers are designed to direct their signal where its most useful: on the ground, not into the sky above.

CNN Week 4

"Over the Top is coming" is surprising Verizon's executives because the future of television is so bright. First, consider the situation today. Most Americans have a monthly cable or satellite subscription that comes with a set-top-box and a big bundle of channels. Internet streaming through services like Netflix and Hulu are still the exceptions to the rule. The future looks like a mash-up of these two modes of viewing; a bundle of channels that are streamed via the Internet to any and every screen.

Design Brief

Our objective is to design and secure our egg with straws, yarn, and rubber band. Our criteria is that: we must create a model with all the materials provided staying within a fifty dollar budget. We will work in teams to create a model that looks exactly like our sketches we submitted. I liked the fact that this project required team work and putting our heads together. When we encountered an obstacle my partner and I had to put our heads together, work as a team, and try top come up with all possible solutions. We sketched out our model to demonstrate how the final product would come out. After many trial and error we tested our project and it did not crack. The thing I liked most about this project was that it took patience and required our minds to think outside the box using limited resources. Our model would have turned out better if our straws would have been more sturdy and not bent, holding tighter together. As many of our classmates did we could have constructed a safety net to put underneath the egg, as a support system in case the egg fell out. Other materials that would have been very useful for this project would have been tape, wooden sticks, a bigger budget, and thicker string.

CNN Week 6

Flappybird will be put back into the app stores. Let the flap less among us take heart. "Flappy Bird," the now defunct mobile sensation, will one day rise like a phoenix and fling itself awkwardly into an app store near you.Originally released last May, "Flappy Bird" had largely languished before a surge in popularity, starting around December, that would see it become the most downloaded app in both Apple's App Store and the Google Play store for Android devices. People who had already downloaded the app didn't lose it, but those who hadn't were out of luck.

CNN Week 5

In "Wireless Electricity" by Katie Hall she says that she was shocked the second she saw it: a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached. Looking back, it was a crude experiment, she remembers: a tiny room filled with gigantic copper refrigerator coils(the kind you'd see if you cracked open the back of your freezer). The challenge now is increasing the distance that power can be transferred efficiently. This distance Hall explains is linked to the size of the coil, and WiTricity wants to perfect the same long-distance transfers to today's small-scale devices.

Week 7 Reflection

Copyright is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. Plagiarism on the internet is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Creative commons
licenses allow the "core right" to redistribute a work for non-commercial purposes without modification.

Week 6 Reflection

The seven resources are people, information, information, materials, energy, time, capital, and tools. People are what use the resources. Information is where we get our ideas from. Materials are what make the needs of people. Time is what helps us tell what time of the day it is. We need energy to help produce the needs.Tools help construct our technology. Capital is a form of money used for technology. I liked Prezi because it had lots of different ways of explaining the information needed to present. It had many different varieties and many different themes to choose from.

CNN Week 3

Boeing is making a phone that can self destruct itself. Its a new secure phone for government agencies and defense contractors that will self destruct if its messed with or tampered with. There wont be any smoke or explosions, but the contents of the device will be completely erased. Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contain within the device and make the device inoperable, "explained a company filling with the Federal Communication Commission, posted on the FCC's Web site Wednesday. It is expected to be out by this summer.

CNN Week 2

In the article, "Nokia Unveils First Android Phones" by Adrian Covert it explains that the Nokia wants to make a new phone with extra stuff added to the phone. For example, android apps added but much of the OS has been customized to highlight Nokia and Microsoft's own services including Here Maps and the Bing search. Nokia has also included its own apps for things such as email and camera.

CNN Week 1

In the article, Police: Driver, 79, kills 3 in church lot by Marlena Baldacci, there has been a lot of deaths. A lady was backing out of a parking space and killed 3 people. Fours others experienced injuries and are currently being medically treated. The women may face many charges. Always be aware of your surroundings when your driving a collision may cause severe damage.

Week 4 Reflection

Desktop publishing is the production of printed matter by means of a printer linked to a desktop computer, with special software. Desktop publishing lets you map out as graphic layout made for formatting while word processing focuses of text contents, copying and editing of texts. Desktop publishing or commercial printing or electronic distribution including PDF, slide shows, and email news letters.

Week 2 Reflection

This week I learned that social media started off with email and evolved into sites as Facebook and Twitter, which I did a power point on. In the presentations presented we learned about the telephone which was invented in March 10, 1876 by Alexander Bell and Antonio Meucci. It was used for people to be able to connect to emergency services . It also increases the efficiency at which business could comcommunicate and interact with one another. Invention was made by accident. The Printing Press was invented in 1140 by Johannes Gutenberg which was used to sent out a message to people. Instead of keeping on writing it, it would make copies and save lots of labor. The microwave oven invented in 1947 by Percy Spencer which solved problems helped to heat and cook faster foods made by accident.

Week 1 reflection

Today was the second day in this class, and we have so far created our websites and blogs. We learned about the social net working history and also about the planes.