Friday, April 29, 2016

Blog Post 4/29

NYT Giving 300,000 Google Cardboard Viewers

Link: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/28/the-nyt-is-giving-out-300000-more-google-cardboard-viewers/

How many devices has the NYT distributed before?
What is the purpose of giving out the headsets?
What does the sound in the video do?
What does Google offer in VR?
What has the NYT VR app focused on?
How many times has the app been downloaded?

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Blog Post 4/28

Nintendo Announces date for NX console

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36149049

Do you own a Nintendo console?  Which one?
What's the name of Nintendo's next console?
How many smartphone games is Nintendo releasing?
How many Wii U's were sold this year?
What games will be released?

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Blog Post 4/27

Google, Ford, and Uber created a Group for Self-Driving Cars

Link: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/26/11510076/self-driving-coalition-ford-google-uber-lyft-volvo-nhtsa

What did these companies announce?
Who is the head?
What's the point of this group?
Do you think there need to be new laws for this type of thing?  Why?

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Blog Post 4/26

Don't Text and Drive, or the Feds will DM you


How many people die a year in the US because of distracted driving?
What is the NHTSA doing now?
What is April?
What's the goal of NHTSA's behavior?
Who is the focus of this?
When does the campaign end?

Monday, April 25, 2016

Blog Post 4/25

The Average Webpage is Now the Size of the Original Doom


How big was Doom?
How big is today's average website?
What does this mean for the web?
How big is Wired's site?
Why are sites so big these days?
What does this mean for ISPs?
What do bloated sites do for users?
What's going on with websites today?
Whose working on speeding up pages?

Friday, April 22, 2016

Blog Post 4/22

Facebook Messenger Update Adds support for 50 Recipients

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

What can Facebook Messenger now do?
What can you turn on?
Why is Messenger getting this feature?

Here's the real link: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Facebook-Messenger-update-adds-support-for-group-calls-with-up-to-50-recipients_id80411

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Blog Post 4/21

One Woman's Fitbit Decided a Criminal Case


What had this woman claimed?
What did the Fitbit prove?
What does a Fitbit do over the course of 24 hours?
What do you think about this case?

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Blog Post 4/20

Amazon Prime Video Comes by itself

Link: http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-prime-video-comes-out-on-its-own/

How much will Amazon Prime Video cost by itself?
What is the new subscription model for Prime?
Why did Amazon do this?
What shows does Amazon have exclusively?
How many households subscribe to online video services?

BTW, when you get to college, you should sign up for Amazon Prime.  It's 1/2 price for students.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Blog Post 4/19

Why America's Schools Have a Money Problem


What's the difference between rich schools and poor schools?
How much does a district spend on a student in North Carolina?
How much in Mooresville?
Where does the achievement gap begin?
Where does school funding come from in the US?
Why does it vary between districts?
What case struck at the heart of the nation's school funding system?
What happens in Coolidge on Fridays?

What do you think about this article?

Monday, April 18, 2016

Blog Post 4/18

Apple Renaming OS X into MacOS

Link: http://gizmodo.com/apple-might-turn-os-x-into-macos-1771143946

What was before OS X?
Where did Apple name it MacOS?
What other Operating Systems does Apple Have?
When is Siri coming to Macbooks?
When are they going to change the name?

Friday, April 15, 2016

Blog Post 4/15

Obama to Help Push for Open Market Cable Set-Top Boxes


What is Obama doing?
What will the proposal allow people to do?
Who support these proposals?
What are they comparing the boxes to?
How has Obama combatted the trend in the past?
How did he weigh in about Net neutrality?

BP 5/20

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