Coronavirus by the numbers

Click HERE for a brief video about the corona virus and why we need to respond by following new social and cleanliness rules

Coronavirus made easy to understand - for the classroom

Gaming Access For All!

How accessibility consultants are building a more inclusive video game industry behind the scenes

Making settings adjustments and accommodations to high difficulty games to make them playable for those with disabilities. READ HERE

Washington Post, by Grant Stoner

February 25, 2020

Articles - Recent advances in computing

Assembler, a free tool introduced by Jigsaw, promises to distinguish real images from fake ones. HERE
David Alba, NY Times

CES 2020: Entrepreneur HERE or Forbes HERE
Remote Health Monitoring
Wearable AR
IoT Kitchens
Personal Translators
Autonomous Farming
Mind Reading
See through your car
Next-gen 8K TV screens
Super-sharp 4K video
Door locking systems






Forbes -7 Biggest Technology Trends for 2020 HERE

Farmers May Pay A High Price For Using Data

NPR presents a brief (3 minute listen) discussion about how US farmers' use of The Climate Company to manage their farmland may jeopardize their long-standing relationships with land owners from their landlords. Tillable, a farmland lease broker, had entertained a relationship with the company in possession of the productivity data farmers pay them to collect and manage for their benefit. Farmers suspect this cozy arrangement may in fact cause their own information to be used against them to great detriment. 

By ntyysrji27 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 

What is Creative Commons?

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• Provide Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools that give every person and organization in the world a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works
• Work closely with major institutions to ensure the correct use and implementation of CC licenses and CC-licensed content
• Develop technology like CC Search that makes openly licensed material easier to discover and use

Journalists Who Rely On Publicly Available Data Rather Than Secret Sources

A practice known as open-source journalism, the close examination of publicly available records, can be as informative, if not more so, than interviewing sources to get to the raw facts of journalist investigations.  

Scienticts Solve The Most complex Encryption Key Ever!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a30149512/longest-encryption-ever-cracked/

When Does Internet Surveillance Go Too Far?

Facebook and Google, among others, now watch us and our activities to an unimaginable degree...

Amnesty.org November 21, 2019:

Facebook and Google's pervaive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger ro homan rights

Marvelous magic-angle twisted bi-layer graphene

Recent advances in experimentation with ultrathin carbon (graphene) at MIT reveals a flexible material, thinner than paper and stronger than steel. Amazingly, it also unexpectedly turns out to be an superconductor.  

READ MORE:
Thamarasee Jeewandara , Phys.org
Kenneth Chang, NY Times

http://news.mit.edu/2018/graphene-insulator-superconductor-0305

Data Brokers: Buying and Selling your Information

Unit 4 Lesson 5: Identifying People With Data

David Lazarus, Los Angels Times:
Shadowy Industry Thrives off your Data

Kashmir Hill, New York Times:
Gaining Access to Your Consumer "Secret Score"

Natasha Singer, Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times
Google to Store and Analyze Millions of Health Records

SDTimes.com