Hey Parents, What Is Minecraft Doing to Your Kids?
If there are any impressionable kids watching this, time to send them out of the room. The big secret coming from Modern Parent is that Minecraft is actually good for your children and helps them with classroom work as well as real life. Keep this a secret because if they ever caught on to this fact, play would cease immediately.
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The British Army Is Allegedly Training a Group of 'Facebook Warriors'
Another country goes to the dark side of the Internet in the quest to keep its citizens safe as reported by the Financial Times. The British Army is in the process of recruiting and organizing The 77th Battalion which will be comprised of 1500 tech savvy cyber warriors that will fight the enemies of the homeland on the battlefields of Twitter and Facebook in the land of social media.
The 77th Battalion will roughly number 1500 warriors, including journalists and people with skill and experience regarding social media interaction. These 'warriors' will use Facebook and Twitter as their primary weapons to gather intelligence, spread falsified news and propaganda.
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The Pirate Bay Is Back After Nearly Two Months of Downtime
Just as promised, The Pirate Bay website is back up and running and even made it back a day early. This incarnation of Pirate Bay is different and is showing signs of fragmatism within the ranks, signaling a split in idealism between two factions is on the horizon. In the near future, you may have two versions of Pirate Bay to access.
As TorrentFreak reports, this version of The Pirate Bay is functionally very similar but lacks a moderation panel for TPB staff, which has resulted in some staff claiming that it isn't the "real" deal.
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Marriott Abandons FCC Petition for Hotel Wi-Fi Blocking
The Marriott Hotel Chain has officially thrown in the towel in its efforts to block guests from using anything but Marriott's proprietary and expensive Wi-Fi systems. Marriott executives explained that their sole intent was to protect the privacy of its customers. That must explain why the wireless network charge was so overpriced.
As we have said, we will not block Wi-Fi signals at any hotel we manage for any reason. And, as of January 15, we provide free Wi-Fi to all members of our Marriott Rewards program who book directly with us.
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New Chrome Extension Spots Unencrypted Tracking
As the privacy battle rages on, browsers fight to keep one step ahead of third party tracking tools.
Chrome has a new extension called TrackerSSL that will alert the user to a website's lack of security in its tracking cookies and provide a list of embedded trackers.
As demand for secure technology grows, most websites will not be able to protect their readers unless they stop using insecure ad trackers.
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Microsoft's Super Bowl Ads Feature Rapper Common
Microsoft is taking the more cerebral approach to their Super Bowl commercials this year, using rapper Common to deliver the company's message in the form of reciting snips of CEO Satya Nadella speeches. The inspirational theme of the Microsoft commercials could go either way with the Super Bowl crowd, and we'll have to wait for the Monday morning quarterbacks to see if they hit home or not.
"The real question that needs to be asked, as well as answered, is what is it that we can do, that is unique, that is impactful. We are going to empower every individual and every organization to do more and achieve more."
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Step Inside Your Isolation Pod, Worker Drone, and Be Free
Here's an idea you could sell to your HR department to increase employee morale and efficiency, two buzz words that really get their attention. The Orrb is the ultimate in providing the frazzled employee an escape into a quiet sanctuary for a few minutes, which in turn, will foster a more proficient employee. Or not, it can also be used to grab a quick nap.
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Apple's R&D Spending Shoots Up 42% Year-Over-Year
Apple is riding higher than ever with record sales in Q1, but along with record profits, comes higher costs in Research and Development. While not revealing any actual accounting figures on the rise in R&D, the company did reveal that research costs had risen 42% over the same time last year.
The Company continues to believe that focused investments in R&D are critical to its future growth and competitive position in the marketplace and are directly related to timely development of new and enhanced products that are central to the Company's core business strategy.
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Dell Is Back
If you are an Internet oldster, you will remember the glory days of Dell and their state-of-the-art, cutting edge computers and for their Dell Dude commercials. Well, Dell has been down, but never counted out over the years and now Dell is coming back strong with the same innovation and computer design that grabbed our attention so very long ago.
Dell never really stopped building bang-for-the-buck products like my Inspiron 8200. But fandom faded as Dell became just one of many PC companies racing to the bottom with price on traditional PCs.
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Super Bowl 2015: This Year's Best Tech-Related Commercials
Guests all invited, a big pile of chicken wings with sauce, chips and dip, veggie platters and a truck-load of ice cold beverages all at hand; you are now ready for the biggest football game of the year. It's not only the biggest day for football, but for commercials as well. The commercials these days for the Super Bowl are so extravagantly expensive that only major corporations can afford anything other than a ten second spot, giving large tech companies plenty of ad time to show off their latest and greatest.
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Windows 10 Updates
We have been telling you that Microsoft will be releasing more and more information on the new operating system in small increments over the months prior to its official release in 3Q15. The official preview release now stands at Build 9926 and has been updated to fix a few problems reported by beta testers.
Surface Pro 2 and Surface Pro 3 owners complained about problems with stability when watching videos, and this has been addressed with a driver update.
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Senators Propose a Tax Holiday Tech Companies Would Love
Let's say that you owe back taxes to the IRS for the past 15-20 years and the government offers you a repayment plan at a huge reduction and no penalty. You would jump on the deal like a duck on a Junebug. That is basically what a proposed bill would do for major corporations that presently have all of their cash stockpiled outside of the US.
The Boxer-Paul plan stems from Congress' opposition to raising the gas tax, which has traditionally gone towards the Highway Trust Fund.
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2020: One Quarter Billion Connected Vehicles on the Road
Gartner, a technology research company, predicts that a quarter Billion motor vehicles will be on the road equipped with in-vehicle services and automatic driving capabilities within five years. The connect vehicle is already a reality, but found generally only in the higher end automobiles and models.
The increased consumption and creation of digital content within the vehicle will drive the need for more sophisticated infotainment systems, creating opportunities for application processors, graphics accelerators, displays and human-machine interface technologies.
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Raising the Price of Amazon Prime Was a Great Decision
It was definitely a high stakes gamble, but Jeff Bezos was able to raise the price of Prime by $20 bucks and actually increase Prime subscriptions by 50%. In any business circle anywhere, that would be considered a big win in anyone's book.
On a base of tens of millions, worldwide paid membership grew 53 percent last year — 50 percent in the U.S. and even a bit faster outside the U.S.
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