Monday, December 16, 2013

Social Bookmarking Questions

What's another way we can organize your computers? What about email? Your Favorite Websites? Your Blog Posts? RSS Feeds?

We can organize our computers by personlizing our computers to our liking. We can organize email using folders and making our folders work for us. We can organize our favorite sites using bookmarks. We can organize our rss feeds by using digg reader and using folders to organize it.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Technology Article 12/6/2013



Embracing big brother: How facial recognition could help fight crime



  • Information is stored in a database through facial recognition, which is a computer based system that immediately identifies a person based on a digital image and/or the person's video source.
  • This is a tool was used in TV shows such as CSI, and now is gonna be use in reality.
  • Facial recognition is a key part of the agency's NGI System, a system that includes iris scans, DNA analysis, and voice identification.
  • Their goal is to reduce terrorist and criminal activity by improving the biometric identification and criminal history information services.
  • Dr. Chris Solomon in the UK created an "electronic sketch artist" system that is used in more than 30 countries.
  • This technology is soon to be release  across the U.S. in 2014
  • There is many new functions this face scanning can provide, for example, in paying for goods, you face only has to be scan 
  • The government is planing on using this scaning face system to fight crime. 
  • http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/25/tech/embracing-big-brother-facial-recognition/index.html

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Do now 12/3/13

I don't really like using twitter, so I wouldn't really want to use it for school.  I find twitter to be confusing sometimes because I don't use it every day.  I rarely go on it, maybe like once a month. I wouldn't like using it for school.