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Facebook may be the top social
media platform in 2013, but it's no
longer a secret that it's become very
boring. Reading posts about
someone's opinion on a new movie
or what they listened to 5 minutes
ago can lead to recurring sessions
similar to watching paint dry. Wall
posts are now very similar to tweets,
either too short or long enough to
make you wonder why you started
reading it in the first place, making
you consider joining other networks
like Google+ or Reddit, that are'nt so
popular around here.

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Video chat on smartphones has
come
a long way in a relatively short
amount of time, and the tools
available for Android have matured
from gimmicky to genuinely useful.
You have a lot of great options, but
we think that Google Hangouts
deserves the crown for the overall
best and most well-integrated
method to see and talk with
friends.
It's been a while since we updated
this post, and in the time since we
last selected Skype as our favorite
video chat application for Android,
the arena has shifted entirely. Lots
of
people went from not using their
phones for video chat or video calls
at all to having a best-in-class tool
built in that they use on the reg.
Here's our new favorite pick, along
with where the competition stands
today.
Google Hangouts
Platform: Android (and others)
Price: Free
Download Page
Features
Places video calls to desktop
and other mobile devices over
3G/4G and Wi-Fi
Supports group video calls
with up to 10 other people
Synchronizes your Hangouts
and their history across devices so
you can see what you talked
about in the past, and review
shared photos, links, or other
media
All video calls to other users
are free (excluding data charges)
Supports front and rear-facing
cameras
Supports calls to mobile and
landline numbers via Google
Voice (or right through Hangouts
in iOS)
Supports bluetooth and wired
headsets for audio
Supports chat, SMS, MMS,
group SMS and MMS, video and
picture sharing, animated GIFs,
emoji, and more
Supports location sharing
Integrates with Google+

The last time a new PlayStation or
Xbox hit the market, Facebook had
fewer than 12 million users, a
tablet was a pill and nobody
outside of Apple had heard of a
gadget called the iPhone. That was
more than seven years ago. It's a
vastly different technology
landscape that will greet Sony and
Microsoft in the coming days when
the two old rivals go head to head
again with splashy new consoles.
Sony's PlayStation 4 hits stores on
Friday, with Microsoft's Xbox One
coming a week later, on November
22. Between them, they account for
two of the gaming world's Big
Three (Nintendo, which rolled out
the Wii U last year, casts a wider
net to draw children, families and
more casual players). The
venerable PlayStation and Xbox
remain the fiercest rivals for the
hearts and minds of so-called
hardcore gamers -- the diehards
who stand in line for intense,
intricate titles like "Call of Duty"
that pull in more cash than
Hollywood blockbusters. But it was
2005 when the Xbox 360 hit the
market, and a year later when the
PlayStation 3 debuted. Now, the
two platforms will be competing
for holiday dollars in a world where
anyone can boot up a video game
instantly on a phone or tablet, and
in which streaming and cloud
technology mean most major
video-game titles can be played as
easily on souped-up PCs. Even the
now-ubiquitous Facebook, which
now has 1.1 billion users, plays a
role. Tens of millions of people
play games on the site daily
(athough few of the faithful who
will line up for the new consoles
may consider crushing candy or
farming virtual cows "real" gaming)
. So which of the two rivals, if
either, will cut through the clutter
and prevail? It remains to be seen,
though the fight has already
begun. Earlier this year, Microsoft
reversed course on poorly received
plans to require Xbox One users to
be online while playing and to
limit how much digital games
could be shared or resold. But that
wasn't before Sony got in some
shots of its own. Early reviews of
the PS4 have been positive, with
Time.com's Matt Peckham praising
it as "everything Sony's learned
about platform design, honed and
polished to something just shy of
perfection." The Xbox One will get
its chance to shine next week. And
the debate over which platform is
better will continue, long after the
new consoles start landing in
homes.Until then, here's a "tale of
the tape" look at some of the
features of two devices. Launch
date PlayStation 4: November 15
Xbox One: November 22 Price
PlayStation 4: $399 Xbox One: $499
Titles at launch PlayStation 4: 16
Xbox One: 23Exclusive titles
PlayStation 4: Deep Down;
Driveclub; InFamous: Second Son;
Killzone: Shadow Fall; Knack;
Resogun; Shadow of the Beast; The
Order: 1886. Xbox One: Dead Rising
3; Forza Motorsport 5; Halo 5; Killer
Instinct; Project Spark; Quantum
Break; Ryse: Son of Rome; Sunset
Overdrive; Titanfall. Entertainment
Apps Both: Netflix, Amazon Instant,
Vudu, Hulu Plus, Redbox Instant
PlayStation 4: NBA Game Time, NHL
Game Center Live, Sony Music
Unlimited, Sony Video Unlimited
Xbox One: HBO Go, Watch ESPN, Fox
Now, FX Now, TED, Univision
Deportes, Xbox Music, Xbox Video
Processor PlayStation 4: 8-core
x86-64 AMD "Jaguar" CPU Xbox One:
8-Core AMD custom CPUMemory
PlayStation 4: 8 GB Xbox One: 8 GB
Storage PlayStation 4: 500 GB Xbox
One: 500 GB Camera PlayStation 4:
None (Available for $59) Xbox One:
Kinect 2 Which console do you
prefer, and which features are most
important to you?

This was from a clip on CNN. Marc
Goodman: It's tempting to think
technology will create a future
paradise He warns that all advances
can be exploited by criminals,
terrorists Goodman: Criminals have
kept a step ahead of police in using
some technologies He says law
enforcement can keep pace by
seeking help from vigilant
citizensMarc Goodmanis a global
security adviser and futurist. He is
the founder of the Future Crimes
Instituteand serves as Chair of
Policy, Law & Ethics at Silicon
Valley's Singularity University. He
spoke at TED Global in June 2012.
TED is a nonprofit dedicated to
"Ideas worth spreading," which it
makes available through talks
posted on its website. (CNN)-- The
future of science and technology
sounds so promising.
Unprecedented advances in
computing, robotics, artificial
intelligence, genetics,
neuroscience and biotechnology
hold the potential to radically
transform our world for the better
and create mass abundance for all. I
sincerely want to believe in this
techno-utopian vision of things to
come, but my work as a police
officer and global security
strategist working in more than 70
countries around the world has
taught me that there is a darker
side to these emerging
technologies. The criminal
underground is highly innovative
and often acts as an early adopter
of emerging technologies. As a
young police officer, I observed
gang members and drug dealers
using beepers and mobile phones,
long before they were in common
use by the general public. Today,
criminals are even building their
own encrypted radio
communications networks, such as
the nationwide systemdeveloped
by narco cartels in Mexico.

looks like Google Glass was just
the beginning. Google now
appears to be aiming a few inches
lower, working on a temporary
electronic tattoo that would stick
to the user's throat. Google-owned
Motorola Mobility has filed for a
patent, published last week, for a
system "that comprises an
electronic skin tattoo capable of
being applied to a throat region of
a body." The patent says the tattoo
would communicate with
smartphones, gaming devices,
tablets and wearable tech like
Google Glass via a Bluetooth-style
connection and would include a
microphone and power source. The
idea is that wearers could
communicate with their devices
via voice commands without
having to wear an earpiece or the
the Glass headset. And how's this
for future tech? It could even be
used as a lie detector. "Optionally,
the electronic skin tattoo can
further include a galvanic skin
response detector to detect skin
resistance of a user," the 10-page
document reads. "It is
contemplated that a user that may
be nervous or engaging in
speaking falsehoods may exhibit
different galvanic skin response
than a more confident, truth telling
individual." "Galvanic" is a
reference to the way some
surfaces, even skin, conduct
electricity. Google explains
mystery barge In images attached
to the filing, the tattoo appears to
be between a postage stamp and a
Band-Aid in size. The filing says that
in addition to sticking via an
adhesive to the throat, the tattoo
could go on a collar or a band
around the user's neck. Other
possible uses include making both
incoming and outgoing audio
clearer. That could mean anything
from making smartphone
conversations clearer in a crowded
room to being able to listen to
music without earphones. And we
can't quite figure out the use case
for this one, but: "the electronic
tattoo can also be applied to an
animal as well."

BlackBerry startled many when it
booted Thorsten Heins, particularly
smartphone owners -- would
interim chief John Chen want to
preserve the company's handset
business? Those customers can
relax, at least for now. Chen
tellsReutersthat he expects to
continue phone development,
arguing that there are "enough
ingredients" for long-term success.
Executives at the company can't
rest so easily, however, as the new
CEO intends a shake-up of
BlackBerry's management that will
include some outsiders. The
strategy should reassure nervous
fansfor a while, although Chen will
need to back up his words with
deeds -- after all, his predecessor
made numerous promisesthat
didn't quite pan out.

New airline bag tags that can be
programmed with a mobile phone
could make those sticky strips of
paper a thing of the past — and
maybe even prevent a painful
separation between you and your
bag. Airlines around the globe are
keen to dispense with the bar-
coded thermal paper tags they
print by the billions and loop onto
your luggage. That adhesive paper
is expensive, and the codes don’t
keep millions of bags from being
lost each year. Worldwide, about
1% of luggage was mishandled last
year, costing an estimated $2.6
billion, according to the
International Air Transport
Association. “It’s painful [for
airlines] in so many ways,” says
Richard Wartham, president and
chief executive officer of Vanguard
ID Systems, a suburban
Philadelphia company that makes a
radio-frequency identification bag
tag. “It’s 1970 technology, you
know? But because it’s just such a
huge installed base, it’s hard for
them to change on a dime.”

INSTAGRAM Look at the phone of
any high school kid and you'll likely
find Instagram easily accessible.
Instagram doesn't outrightly share
how many younger users it has, but
according to Pew, 18 percent of cell
owners use Instagram and
Instagram states that it has 150
million active users. Teens don't
just post food photos or selfies
though. They comment on photos
of their friends and share images of
things they are interested in --
sports, bands, celebrities, you
name it. This isn't bad news for
Facebook. The company owns
Instagram and shelled out $1
billion for it in April 2012. Brian
Solis, a principal analyst at
Altimeter Group, says be believes
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's
lead executives knew they would
need help with the younger
market at the time and that was
the impetus behind the purchase.
"Facebook realized it needed not
just a mobile future, but also a
future for this younger or teen
audience," Solis told ABC News.
SNAPCHAT People are also
spending a lot of time looking at
photos that disappear within 10
seconds. Snapchatis another teen
mobile staple now. Again Snapchat
doesn't share stats on the age of its
users but says 350 million photos
or "Snaps" are sent every day
across the network. Also, the
service became so popular with
kids that the company released
Snapkidz in June, an app that
doesn't actually let kids share
photos but just doodle on them.
Yeah, that's certainly not what the
teens are after. MESSAGING APPS-
KIK, WHATSAPP People are also
creating their own social networks,
much in the same way many did
with AOL or AIM before there was
Facebook. Using chat apps like Kik
and WhatsApp many use the group
messaging and other messaging
features in this app to keep up with
friends. According to WhatsApp, the
service has over 300 million users.
Solis points out that teens lead
different social lives than adults
and that's why some of these more
instant or real-time messaging
apps appeal to them. "The reality is
that teens have every day social
situations that adults don't have.
They have a real life social network
every single day and for that they
are using a lot of real time text
related communication," he said.
OTHERS: PHEED, AskFm, TWITTER
Other networks have also gained
some steam with younger users.
For instance, Pheedsurged in
popularity a few months ago
because of the multimedia tools
the service offered in comparison
to Facebook and Twitter. It allows
for status updates, but also quick
video clips and photo filters similar
to Instagram. Pheed's CEO told ABC
News in March it was seeing huge
growth with the younger market

lol, the guy has problems

For those who don't know. Google
Glass is a device that would make
some of the tasks that you would
normaly perform with a camera
surprisingly sim( it is not a phone),
it's designed to look like a pair of
glasses that all you would have to do
is put on and speak to, amazing
right? You say "take a picture" and
whatever you were looking at at the
time is stored, you can record, share
what you were looking at,translate
your voice, give you directions and
even send a message, all hands-free.y

exactly! byt it will probably be expensive to mass produce

In the past, if you wanted to be able
to be able to lift more weight you
would have to spend months
bulking up at the gym. Now, with a
new invention from a group of
design students at the University of
Pennsylvania, you can just strap on
an external bicep and you are ready
to go. The bionic device, called the
Titan Arm, is the brainchild of four
mechanical engineering students
who, in their final undergraduate
year, built an upper-body
exoskeleton that can be used in
physical therapy and manual labor.
The invention won its inventors $
10,000 in the Cornell Cup for
Innovation and has recently been
shortlisted for the 2013 Dyson
award. The Titan Arm straps directly
to a user's right arm to help lift
heavy objects that the user
wouldn't normally be able to lift. Its
inventors believe that it will be
useful in aiding physical
rehabilitation, both for people who
have suffered upper body injuries
and for those with pre-existing
muscular-skeletal disorders. The
Titan Arm's inventors say the
exoskeleton can also be used by
people whose jobs require heavy
lifting such as warehouse workers,
removalists and couriers...the rest is on my website.

Three years ago, Apple unveiled the very first iPad, that boxy, large and thick device. But four iPads later and we're starting a whole new ball game. And trust me, its easy on the eyes.
It's called the iPad Air, and for the first time since the iPad 2 we're seeing a brand new design, the 'fifth generation'. It sports the same 9.7 inch display, it weighs just one pound and its even thinner than previous iPads. What do you think, will it perform better than any of the others?