Whenever I think of Google and Facebook, I normally think of a harmonious relationship. I think of two companies who can highly benefit from each other whether for good or for bad. Well, that was until now.

A new and upcoming privacy change has Facebook not too happy with Apple right now. The update of IOS 14, will give you an update/prompt on what apps are tracking your buys and searches. Seemingly, not a big deal as a lot of apps do that, but now we will be given the option to turn that off. Faebook has not been too happy about this change because that defeats their purpose of targeted ads, which they spend over 86 billion dollars on. While Apple may have good intentions with this change, they completely disregarded all their past relations with other apps on the phone. While this may not affect your screen on Facebook, it will certainly affect them. Facebook claims that this change could not only damage the app but also damage other small businesses and shops that use Facebook. Apple argues that this is a right to privacy that most people should be in control over. So, What do you think? Is Facebook overreacting or is Apple in the wrong?

Cite: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-vs-apple-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-their-privacy-feud/

Each day technology improves a little more and we are able to find new uses for inventions that already exist. That’s what sub-surfacing imaging technology is doing right now! This kind of technology has been used for medical and different biomedical purposes for helping out hospitals and doctor offices. While this has been super helpful in the field, doctors and researchers have been doing a study where they have been using this technology to look at documents and other papers.

In their research, they have found that optical coherence tomography (OCT) can tell if a document is forged within 10 seconds. The OCT technology can “expose the translucent structures, non-destructively enabling quantitative visualization of embedded security features.” They have tried it on ID cards, national documents, and passports. Over the past few years, forged documents have been on the rise in the UK and in the USA, but with technology like this, we can help stop the usage of forged documents. Fraudsters have gotten very specific with their tactics, going as far as faking the paper material. With OCT, all of this will be caught. Do you think technology like this will actually make a difference? Or do you think fraudsters will always come up with new ideas to fake documents?

article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210202113900.htm

While It’s common knowledge that WE watch tv, do our own tv’s watch us back? The answer is yes and no. In the traditional sense, no, our TVs are not watching our every move and reporting them back to the government or anything wild like that. Instead, they keep track of what we’re watching, how long we are watching, and other sorts of information like that.

They can take this information and keep it to themselves to recommend different shows and programs, but they can also send this information to other companies so our advertisements can be more tailored towards us and what we want to see. More often than not these advertisements get us to buy into things like Hulu Plus, Netflix, Disney plus, etc. There are cases though where they can send our information to bigger companies for products that are not tv related. There have even been cases of people suing bigger companies because their information has been sold.

TVs are not the only electronics to do this as well. We heard of similar cases in phones and Alexas taking our information and storing it. With Electronics doing this, how do you feel? Do you think it is appropriate for companies to do this without stating this first? Are you nervous that companies hold your information?

www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/technology/why-your-tv-spies-on-you.html

It’s not an exaggeration when I say the quality of education has decreased this past year since covid has prevented many kids and teens from being in person and learning. Many kids need a controlled environment where they can learn, so with covid taking that away, how have schools worked around those obstacles? One way is technology.

Augmented and Virtual reality has been used to simulate a real-life school setting despite many people still being at home. It has also been used to add gaming aspects to learning through textbooks. Artificial intelligence has also been used to help teachers check their students’ work in a faster and more accurate version than ever before.

Wireless technology has probably been the biggest and most noticeable adjustment for people though. Us college students have even been affected by wireless technology. This includes things like Zoon and Microsoft teams. While these programs have always existed, they have been put to the most use this past year. Teachers have mastered the basics of zoom and have even added extra programs to them that allow us to interact in polls and chat with each other like in a classroom. While zoom isn’t a perfect solution to this year of covid, it definitely has made the impossible seem possible.

My experience with Zoom is definitely a complicated one, but I have grown to like the program itself. I do not like wifi issues that come with it, but that isn’t anyone’s fault. Do you think these programs have done more beneficial things than not? I can’t imagine us really learning in a better way if we cannot be in person

Source: https://theprint.in/india/education/how-ar-vr-and-ai-technology-is-making-education-more-accessible-post-covid/589752/

There’s technology everywhere nowadays, including the operating room! While technology has been in hospitals for a while now, there has been some amazing progression with robots actually being able to perform surgery. You heard me right, the robots aren’t doing small tasks, they’re replacing some of the tasks an actual doctor would do.

Robots can be very precise in ways that humans can not be without years of training. Think about it, if you could program a bot to do something that a normal person would take 10 years to learn, wouldn’t you? Robots assist in all kinds of surgeries. For example, they assist in joint replacement, heart replacement, and many noninvasive surgeries as well. It’s amazing to see the progress that has occurred in the past 10 years.

In 1985, the Puma 560 was able to carry out neurological biopsies and now robots can carry out full surgeries on their own with a doctor’s guidance. Right now, there has been a lot of exploration with using microbots and capsule robots for diagnostic tests, surgeries, and for drug delivery within the system.

While I think the advancement of technology within medicine is very fascinating, I can’t help but wonder about all the things that could go wrong. Technology is prone to error and we all see that in everyday items. While millions of dollars are poured into these creations, mistakes can still happen. I personally don’t know how I would feel about having a one on one surgery with a robot.

Like the article says, Robots have come along way since 1985, but there is still room for improvement and correction. Would you let a robot operate on you? How do you feel about the advancement in technology within medicine?

Source: https://www.news-medical.net/health/Recent-Advances-in-Robotic-Surgery.aspx