Digital Human Rights; Abuse Emojis; Google’s I/O Show; the Robot Wars
Today’s Tech Sightings: UN Report: Encryption is Important to Human Rights The United Nation’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said digital security and privacy are essential for...
View ArticleFacebook in Africa; Popemoji; More Apps, Less TV; Apple Stylus
Today’s Tech Sightings: Facebook Rakes in Users in Nigeria, Kenya; Eyes Rest of Africa Twenty million users and counting now use Facebook in Nigeria and Kenya, according to the social network giant’s...
View ArticleMobile Consumes Teen Generation; Emoji Makes 2015 Word of the Year
Today’s Tech Sightings: Lost in tech? A young girl holds two mobile phones as she takes pictures at a downtown area of Shanghai, China, Oct. 22, 2012. (Reuters) I’m 15 and I Can’t Look Up From My Phone...
View ArticleNew Hard Drive Uses Chlorine Atoms; Protecting Privacy With Snapchat
Today’s Tech Sightings: A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is seen in Kiev, Ukraine April 21, 2016. (Reuters) World’s Smallest Hard Disk Stores Data Using Chlorine Atoms Researchers at Delft University of...
View ArticleEmojis Tackle Language Disorders; Parsing Future Tech From Fiction
Today’s Tech Sightings: Samsung Develops Emoji-based Chat App for Language Disorders More often than not, people use emojis for fun when they chat. But for those with language disorders like aphasia,...
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