Smartphones, Smartwatches and, Now, Smart Toothbrushes

IN the last few years, sensors have become small and inexpensive enough to make the monitoring of practically everything possible.

There are those familiar fitness bands and smartwatches from companies like Fitbit, Jawbone and Samsung, which monitor vital signs and activities. But that is just the beginning. In the name of living healthier lives, sensors may soon give us updates on the whole family, and across the house — from the bathroom sink to the garage.

Social media advice for career-minded students. 10 things to consider.

Social Media can change your career. It can really hurt someone for posting the wrong and inappropriate things.
Some things that can help you:
1. Have a better online reputation
2. Create interactive content to enhance business.
3. Monitor social media privacy
4. Don't become a news headline
5. No curse words
6. Somebody is always watching
7. Do things for the right reasons.
8. Handle negativity with disgrace.
9. The more friends doesn't always mean the better.
10. Selfies need to end.
These 10 things can help you by getting into a better position to become successful.

I believe these things will help many people. Stay off the internet to not get into any trouble.

T mobile has a record number of customers

T-Mobile US Inc said it added a record number of customers in the first quarter, blowing past its competitors as the company's aggressive discounts lured in subscriber 

T-Mobile shares jumped 7.3 percent as the company that has billed itself as the "uncarrier" signed up 2.4 million new customers in the first quarter, topping estimates of 932,000. That was more than its top three rivals combined, a first for the No. 4 mobile carrier in the United States based on total subscribers.

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Security Flaw Could Reach Beyond Websites to Digital Devices, Experts Say

-When the Heartbleed bug was disclosed on Monday, the attention focused on the fallout for major Internet companies like Yahoo and Amazon. But security experts said the potential for harm could extend much further, to the guts of the Internet and the many devices that connect to it.

-Cisco Systems, the dominant provider of gear to move traffic through the Internet, said its big routers and servers, as well as its online servers — a big business — were not affected. If they had been, that would have had a significant impact on virtually every major company that connects to the Internet.

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A BILLION-DOLLAR BRACELET IS THE KEY TO A DISNEY PARK
- Walt Disney World has spent more than a year rolling out a $1 billion system that changes how visitors do everything from enter their hotel rooms to ride Space Mountain. But a few weeks ago a front desk agent at one of  Disney's marquee hotels was still wrestling with the technology.
-So it has gone with MyMagic+, an ambitious effort to make Disney World more profitable by making its 30 million annual visitors happier. The multifaceted system has taken longer to introduce than expected as Disney has confronted an array of daunting complexities: training 70,000 employees, equipping 28,000 hotel room doors with radio frequency readers, prompting guests to wear data-collecting electronic wristbands.

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BRINGING 3-D POWER TO THE PEOPLE
-The first thing Duann Scott does when he arrives at the Shapeways factory in Long Island City, Queens, is check the bins. They are yellow and stacked in an all-white room that resembles the interior of a spaceship, and they contain the latest prints to come out of the machines, which can really stack up.
-Shapeways, a 3-D printing service and online marketplace, has been described as the Amazon of 3-D printing for its on-demand model, if not its outsize volume: The machines spit out about 120,000 objects a month, a tidal flow of design that runs from the mundane to the astonishing.

Android wear

ANDROID WEAR
Any nascent technology needs a platform in order to be successful. This week, Google gave wearable devices that platform.
With the announcement of Android wear. Google has officially kicked off the wearables era. The availability of an operating system for wearables will lead to an almost immediate boom in device development.
As every device maker knows, the hardest thing about creating a new hardware platform is creating the software to go along with it. Pebble  arguably relaunched  the smart watch conversation with its devices, but has struggled to get developers to contribute meaningful features. That’s understandable, since the market for Pebble watches is currently pretty small. Pebble app development is a passion project, at best.