Tech news 5/16

 The push to plug the plumbing problem from hell at Fukushima Daiichi is about to get some help from a U.S.-built robot designed to search for leaks from one of the Japanese nuclear plant's crippled reactors. Built in Colorado by California-based nuclear cleanup contractor kurion the refrigerator-sized robot will stick a 15- foot mechanical arm through a hole in the main floor of the reactor building. 

My Voki

5/2

China's smartphone trailblazer looks abroad. in 2010, lei jun launched Xiaomi, a mobilephone company that aimed to go head to head in china with apple, samsung, lenovo, and other deep-pocketed purveyors of high-end phones. Xiaomi has not just held its own against the big guys.

Tech news 4/25

Machine makes drinking water from thin air. The world health organization reports that 780 million people don't have access to clean water, and 3.4 million die each year due to water-bone diseases. But an Israeli company thinks it can play a part in alleviating the crisis by producing drinking water from thin air. Water-gen has developed an atmospheric water-generation units using its "genius" heat exchanger to chill air and condense water vapor. 

Spring Break

   this past week i was off for spring break. most people went on vacation in other countries but i stayed home and slept. on  Friday i picked up my stepsister from the rockaway mall and drove to
kinchley's. the pizza they have there is very hot and crispy. we had a onion pie and a sausage pie.
   when i finished sleeping i played a fun game called run. i also saw my family for my mothers birthday. i didn't really do much during the break since it was my time off. i also played a fun game on my iphone called clash of clans. it is a fun game to play that a lot of people are playing. i also solved my Rubik cube a few times

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Bitcoin is an experimental decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. this might sound good but for some reason a few country don't want  it and some haven't decided if they want it or not. Iceland and Vietnam don't want to have it for their country and many countries are still deciding.

J&B Jet Pack flyer

tech news 3/28/14

It's been a long battle, but Microsoft seems to have figured out a definitive strategy for keeping Apple's hands off proceeds from its mobile software. But in many ways, Apple is the smaller of two birds Microsoft just clipped with a single stone. Today marks the announcement of Office for IPad, Microsoft's core productivity suite that, slightly different than on iPhone, exists on tablets as standalone "freemium" apps. In doing so, Microsoft has pulled in the most asked-for platform into its Office 365 umbrella, tying its effectiveness to that $99 annual subscription service and locking out Apple from the 30 percent cut as to be expected.

Do Now 3/24

Two days ago I was my Grandpa's house and my Mother was flipping trough the channels and she found a show called "The Wahlburgers." It is reality show about Mark Wahlburg and how his family used to work or what they did when they were young. In one episode Mark's friends were flying out to l.A. and they left with 20 burgers and when they got to the house they only had 2. It was sort of funny but it was really interesting.

My survey

do now 3/17

   if i had a invisibility cloak for one day i would  use it to preform a good deed. it is a kind of hard decision to do only one good deed. i think i would clean up my whole house for my father and mother. the whole house is a mess it so unclean. my mother and father would be very happy that the whole house would be clean.
   the house has a lot of stuff just lying around like cups, plates and random other stuff.

tech news 3/14

Amazon Prime fee jumps up to $99. The cost of the premium service is rising by $20, with members paying the higher fee on their renewal date. The discounted student fee also heads north. For the first time, online retailing giant will raise the membership fee for prime, hiking it by $20 to $99 a year. Amazon student Prime will rise $10 to $49 a year. Prime members will pay the higher fee when their accounts come up for renewal.

tech news 3/7/14

Apple has lost the latest round in the ongoing war with archrival Samsung.  Apple fails to win permanent ban of Samsung products. In the long-running feud between the two companies, Apple has filed a renewed request to permanently ban 23 Samsung devices found to have infringed on its patents. Early Thursday, Judge Lucy Koh denied Apple's request, ruling that the IPhone maker "has not established that it is entitled to the permanent injunction it seeks."

Do Now 3/5

   The spreadsheets will be very helpful in a few of my classes. It will be most helpful in Science because we do a good amount of voting for certain things. We take votes sometime we take votes on what animal is our favorite or which project we want to do. It would be easier to understand which students like what better. this would help our teachers to keep track of what we like to do for projects and certain animals or plants.

Tech news 2/28

Our galactic neighborhood just got a lot bigger. NASA on wendesday announced they have discover 715 new planets.

educational technology and copyright law

after reading this article i learned a few things that i didn't know. i learn that just doing the smallest of things is almost immediately copyright. they're so many things that the average human does everyday and for almost half of those things to be copyright is amazing because then we are basically just copying everyone else. if you like to read more read this article

Amazon Coins

Amazon customers in the US, the UK, and Germany can now earn, buy, and spend Amazon Coins via their Android phones and tablets. Previously available just for kindle users amazon coins were minted last year another form of currency but only able to be used on amazon.  The retail giant introduced the online coins as a way to coax customers to buy apps, games, and in-app items from the Amazon Appstore. Shoppers can get discounts when they buy the coins in bulk and earn coins through certain apps. You can find more information here amazon coins branch out.

winter olympics

   This past few weeks have been the 2014 Winter Olympics which r taking place in Sochi Russia. The events have been going on since the beginning of February. They haven't been going on for very long. If u haven't watched it for the past week or two you can still watch the rest of it. If you haven't watched the Olympics so far you can go here to see the progress of the teams 2014 Winter Olympics.

   I haven't been watching the whole Olympics but my favorite event is curling. I like curling because I don't really like the high passed events. The faster ones seem to be harder to follow and understand but curling is easy. The Great Britain curling teams have been doing very well in the competitions. 

   I enjoy the curling events because they are very easy to follow and understand. It isn't a very fast past but is very enjoyable. I enjoy watching the Olympics this time because there are many good events this time compared to other years and better teams this time.

Technology New 2/7

Listed Thursday on Apple's job site but since taken down, the ad was seeking a "User Studies Exercise Physiologist" to put in 40 hours a week at Apple headquarters in Santa Clara Valley. Apple is looking for people who not only are knowledgeable about cardiovascular fitness but can put that knowledge toward the design of products.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. I have a 1 brother and a step brother and sister. my parents are divorced  and my dad remarried. my brothers are sometimes very annoying and my sister is no longer at college she graduated last year from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.  I have 3 dogs in all 2 at my dads and 1 at my moms house.