Assignment X

'Drinking Mirror' app aims to show how alcohol ages you

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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/09/tech/mobile/drinking-mirror-app/index.html

“Drinking Mirror” app rolled out this week, to show how alcoholic will look like after ten year. The user can upload their picture by themselves. Generally, regular heavy drinker has deeper wrinkles, red cheeks and weight gain. This app can use for Android-powered devices, iPhone and even a web version also available. If people drink more then five drinks a day are likely to die of a stroke. A beer belly can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea and cancer. The users can upload their pictures and entering data about their drinking level then the app will show how they will looks like in 10 years.

News card for Assignment IX

A Mercedes that basically drives itself

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http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/a-mercedes-that-basically-drives-itself/?iid=SF_T_River

Self driving car called “Intelligent drive” will introduced early next year 2014 by Mercedes-Benz S-Class. This S-Class include a machine that can spot a dangerous situation, stereo cameras and rear radar and so on. As more cars have the ability to drive themselves “Figuratively speaking, the next S-Class won't just have eyes at the front; it will have 360-degree all-round vision,” said Thomas Weber, head of Mercedes-Benz research and development in a statement released in November.

Mobileye has shipped a million of its chips since it began production in 2007 and expects to ship two million chips in 2013.

An outgrowth of advanced cruise control, in which a radar can be set to keep a car under a certain speed and also from advancing too quickly on a vehicle ahead, the latest systems warn of danger and may apply brakes.

News Card for assignment 8

Windows 8's best feature isn't being used by most Windows 8 PC owners.

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http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/28/technology/mobile/windows-8-touchscreen/index.html


Only 30 of the more than 700 laptops that Best Buy (BBY, Fortune 500) sells on its website have touch screens, and just two touch screen laptops ranked among the retailer's top 10 sellers.

The cheapest touch screen laptop -- the 11.6-inch Asus VivoBook -- sells for about $500, but fuller-sized touchscreen notebooks with all the latest features will set you back at least $625. Touch features aren't an afterthought in Windows 8; they're core to the entire operating system.

Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) has been aggressively marketing Windows 8's touch features on TV, showing off new inventions like "picture passwords" (use a gesture, like a circle, on a chosen part of a favorite image as your log-in credential) and tablet-like apps.

News card for Assignment 7

To transform education, Donorschoose hires a data scientist

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/21/to-transform-education-donorschoose-hires-a-data-scientist/?iid=H_T_News

It is very hard to buy laptops, tablets and smart boards for each kids to transform the education. Most of the teachers asked document camera for their classrooms. This document camera is inexpensive. Charles Best, used to be a Bronx history teacher, help donors and teachers to connect online through Donorschoose. Best says, “ Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child...won't you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?”

Garlapati, a 22 years-old University of Chicago mathematics major, still learning at the University and the company should wait him until he graduated. He didn't realized before that was a non profit organization. He spent a few months and used to assess teacher efficacy by tracking students' performance and measuring how much they improve.

Assignments 6

Charlie Wolf: Google Maps a mixed blessing for Apple

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/14/google-maps-for-iphone/?iid=SF_T_River

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Google's new Maps app will use in the iPhone in the future among millions of iPhone users. iPhone use very good designed but google Map is better than iPhone map. The app should maintained IOS 6 with its own map but iPhone users complain to the google map Apple will slow to fix its.

Survey of smart phone buyers plan to buy an iPhone 5 is only 53.3%. The second is Andriod 35.3%. Only 6.5% interest of Microsoft's Window Phone and 4.9% interest in BlackBerry. More specifically, in this holidays will demand and people are waiting to be gifted.

News card for assignment 5

Gmail allows 10 GB file sharing with Google Drive

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/28/tech/web/gmail-google-drive/index.html

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Gmail and Google Drive users can share files up to 10GB. Google wants to help out about 
can't send the files through email. The files are stored in the cloud so users can assess from anywhere like Dropbox. Google using many services, Google Plus is using Android mobile operating system. Files transfer service from Google Drive will available in a few days. Before that Google allowed users to share their files from Google documents and Drive. Later will be easier and sharing large files without leaving gmail. 

News card for assignment 4

61-year-old computer springs back to life

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/21/tech/innovation/witch-computer-restoration/index.html

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The historian WITCH computer used as a teaching device until 1973. This computer was one of the computer from Harwell, 1951. After rebooted and restored from a museum in the UK this computer became World's oldest original working digital computer has 2.5 ton machine with an atomic research program. This computer doesn't have keyboard and monitor as a modern computer and can store 90 numbers. This machine can't carry around such as pocket calculator. The WITCH is restored and rebooted at a museum in the UK on Tuesday. People interested about how a computer is working and what was restored at the computer but the computer sounds like as a broken typewriter. The WITCH reads programs from paper tape. We can see the machine at the National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire, north of London.