Thursday, May 15, 2014

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. 

Thursday, May 1, 2014

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.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

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. 

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

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


My Voki

Thursday, April 3, 2014

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.