Tagged: news

60 Day Challenge 2.0

Last summer I attempted 60 days without technology (my full journal here) and I found it really rewarding. So much so, that for the next ten days I will be out of the reach of technology, with nothing more than a camera (which I will soon review here), in beautiful Guyana (it’s above Brazil and next to Suriname). Please check out that journal, and...

Google Takes on Old Challenge With New Technology

Google Ideas, Google’s global issues think tank, announced this week a $3 million investment that they’re making into creating a global human trafficking hotline network, helping to combat a problem that has been worsening for literally hundreds of years After holding various events, and discussions on illicit networks, slavery, and human trafficking, Google ideas has started developing a system for tracking trafficking trends on...

Cheaper iPhone On the Way…or not?

I’m a realist. Sometimes I can be a bit cruel with the truth, but it’s useful in debunking the crap that newspapers spew when times are tough and there isn’t enough tech news to go around. Rumors continually driven by a certain publication (the Wall Street Journal) seem to point towards a cheaper iPhone on the way. Here are a few reasons why that’s...

Google Fiber Coming To A City Near You?

Is Google Fiber coming to your city? The world famous fiber optic experiment, with Google trying to take over the roll of ISP, and which began in Kansas City, is expanding to a city near you… as long as you live near Olathe, Kansas, which Google announced would be the next location of the legendary service. While this awesome ISP isn’t moving far from...

Breaking: Google Discontinues Reader RSS Service

Google will be ending its’ reader service (reader.google.com) on July 1st, according to the company, bringing to an end seven years of service. Google Reader is the service behind many of the top RSS apps in the world, pushing new content from saved feeds to RSS readers, and offering its’ own organized reader online. Word comes as research shows the decline of the RSS...