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TED Talk presentation review

I recently watched a TED Talk presented by Wanis Kabbaj, the director of global strategy for healthcare logistics at UPS, it was titled What a driverless world could look like and was recorded in September 2016 at TED@UPS.  A quick summary of the talk:  "What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality" I found Wanis Kabbaj's presentation to be very thorough and informative. His idea of introducing a mode of transportation that resembles the smoothness and efficiency of blood flow through our veins is quite ingenious. Transportation issues have been plaguing ci...
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I tuned into to a video podcast hosted by Leo Laporte (The Tech Guy) on Twit. This was episode 1422, published on 11/25/17, and was titled iPhone 8 Plus vs. iPhone X. After 10 minutes of unrelated chatter, Laporte starts the discussion by saying that ultimately he believes that the iPhone X is the best iPhone ever made. He discusses how the differences between the two handsets are quite minimal in some regards, such as the hardware of the cameras. He spends a relatively long period of time expressing his opinion on the Face ID feature found only on the iPhone X. He believes that Face ID isn't as reliable as the traditional Touch ID found on the iPhone 8 plus; as well as other models released in the year 2013 onward. According to Apple Face ID is much more secure than Touch ID; the chances of someone other than you unlocking your iPhone X is 1 to 1 million, while the chances are 1 to 50,000 for Touch ID. Laporte points out that Apple's claim is invalid in some respects because...

How companies use social media

Social media can be a very beneficial tool for companies, as it allows them to do a variety of different things that can help their business. These things include increasing website traffic, creating a brand identity and positive brand association and improving communication and interaction with key audiences. There is a wide variety of different social media platforms that company can use to do what I previously mentioned, but Facebook and Twitter are among the most commonly used. Worldwide, there are over 2.07 billion monthly and 1.15 mobile daily active. These statistics make Facebook are very vital place for companies to market themselves, in fact 42% of marketers report that Facebook is critical or important to their business. On Facebook companies increase their web traffic by having their "advertisements" featured, companies can filter out Facebook users by a variety things like age and interest to direct their advertisement to a specific group of people. An example ...

Why I am at MATC

Hi all, my name is Datavion McDowell. Long before I enrolled to be a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), pursing my degree in IT Networking, I knew a career in technology was the best fit for me. As a child I was fascinated by all things technology, from a simple SD card to complex computer systems. When I was about 12 years old my mother bought a PC for the house, I was ecstatic! Once I came home from school and finished my homework, that PC became mine. I would go through all the settings in the operating systems trying to configure things and to see how things worked. My mother eventually told me that I could no longer stay inside all day fiddling with the computer because I needed to let others use it more often. Then one day when I was playing board games in the basement with my brothers, I stumbled upon a large and heavy cardboard box. I opened it to see what was inside and to my utter surprise, it was a PC with all the necessary components! I immediately began to...