The UK has recently seen its first prison sentence handed out for cyber-bullying, as an 18 year old girl was sentenced to three months in a young offenders’ institution after pleading guilty to harassment.
Category Archives: Communications & Technology
Deaths linked to nanotechnology in China
There has been a recent high-profile case involving the death and injury of a number of Chinese workers who were involved in the production of materials that used nanoparticles.
Nanofoods, coming soon to a store near you
The big debates about technologically enhanced food usually surround the use of genetic modification, but most of us aren’t as familiar with the concept of nanofood. Which is unfortunate and needs to be quickly rectified, because within the next few years we are about to see a huge boom in its commercial availability on store shelves.
Augmented Reality: The good, the bad, and the ugly (part one: the good)
One of the technological revolutions that is just around the corner is the wonderful world of augmented reality. So what I wanted to do today is just take a quick look at some of the possible applications of augmented reality. Part one looks at the positive applications for augmented reality that are just around the corner.
Facebook to increase awareness of application data access
Facebook is going to be changing the way we interface with applications. More specifically, users are going to be made much more aware of just how much access they are giving to third-party companies to their personal data.
Facebook tries to patent crowd-sourced translations
Facebook harnessed the power of its massive user-base to create a simple system whereby users would translate particular sentences collectively – and now it wants to patent the way in which this was done.