Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
Are we on the verge of a rebellion against technology?
Yesterday I was taken aback when I noticed an elderly Wal-mart greeter amusing herself with a fidget spinner.
What the hell is a fidget spinner? It’s a toy you just spin with your fingers.
It’s the hottest selling summer entertainment item that retails between $2.99-$8.99 depending on wether it lights up or makes noise.
Via The Daily Bell
This article is not about fear. This article is about common sense.
Last week, we discussed the internet of things, and how smart devices could be used to literally know more about us than we know about ourselves.
This is not some distant future dystopia we are talking about. It is already happening.
A smart device in a home called the police during a domestic violence incident.
Just hours after Snap(chat), or rather its shareholders, were gravely injured when the stock tumbled below its IPO price, one of the company's IPO underwriters Morgan Stanley decided to add some insult, when its analyst Brian Nowak downgraded the social network, or photo app, or whatever it is these days, to equal-weight, cutting its price target to $16 from $28 on ad product and competition concerns. Shares promptly tumbled another 2.7% to $16.50 in pre-market trading on the downgrade .
Authored by Robert Donachie via The Daily Signal,
Young men are working less and playing video games more, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study published Monday.
Men ages 21 to 30 years old worked 12 percent fewer hours in 2015 than they did in 2000, the economists found. Around 15 percent of young men worked zero weeks in 2015, a rate nearly double that of 2000.
In the aftermath of the collapse of the "wearables" craze, Virtual Reality was supposed to be next big thing.
Back in 2014, when Facebook paid $3 billion to acquire Oculus, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that the medium, which offers a 360-degree panoramic view through headsets, would "become a part of daily life for billions of people."