Interview: Sherry Turkle, Author of 'Alone Together' As soon as Sherry Turkle arrived at the studio for her Fresh Air interview, she realized she'd forgotten her phone.
"I realized I'd left it behind, and I felt a moment of Oh my god ... and I felt it kind of in the pit of my stomach," she tells Terry Gross. That feeling of emotional dependence on digital devices is the focus of Turkle's research. Five High-Paying, Low-Stress Jobs. By Bridget Quigg, PayScale.com Imagine the following scenario. Someone asks you how work is going and you say, “Not bad. The pay is great and the stress is manageable.” According to research from online salary database PayScale.com, that could be your reality if you choose one of the following well-paying jobs where workers report below-average levels of stress.
PayScale.com collects salary and job information from employees around the country and has found that the most enviable gigs are typically knowledge-based and require highly specialized training and education. Starting a New Business Overnight for Survival. 13m US Facebook Users Unknowingly Sharing Info with the Public. Facebook’s privacy settings can sometimes be a source of confusion for the social network’s millions of users, and in the US, nearly 13 million of them are either unaware of, or simply don’t use, the privacy controls the site offers.
In a recent study, Consumer Reports shows exactly why that figure is nothing short of disastrous, and how over-sharing publicly can be used against Facebook users. 4.8 million people have shared details about their plans for a certain day, making it publicly known when their houses are going to be empty, and 4.7 million have ‘liked’ a Facebook page related to health issues or treatments – exposing details that can be used against them by insurance companies.
Out of the 150 million Facebook users in the US, almost 9% are sharing personal information, but seem to be completely oblivious of the fact, and the lack of awareness has had its consequences. Consumer Reports offers users 9 tips on how to understand privacy tools: How to Make a Brilliant Mistake. How I use Twitter, and you?
GestureWorks - Multitouch Framework - Build Gesture-Driven Apps. Multitouch Table and Display Comparison Chart « Ideum. Choosing the right multitouch equipment is a critical factor in planning a successful public exhibit.
Size, build quality and performance are key factors when evaluating a device that will be used day after day in a busy public environment. Our Multitouch Table and Display Comparison Chart (PDF 600kb) compiles key facts about our MT Series multitouch devices, along with available information on many of our competitor’s multi-touch tables and displays. We hope you will find this a valuable resource when selecting equipment for your next museum exhibit or public display. We pride ourselves on building the best integrated multitouch tables and touch walls for public use.
Whether you are comparing the the MT55 Platformtable, MT55 Pro table, or our new MT65 Presentermultitouch wall, you will see that our product performance is second to none in build quality and value. Download the Multitouch Table and Display Comparison chart* (PDF 600kb) Beware Of Following The Gospel Of Minimalism, Preached By Apple. The cleverest trick that Apple has ever pulled isn’t convincing us to pay $500 for a phone or MP3 player, but rather convincing the world that if you want good design, then you have to follow Apple’s template of clean lines and stripped-down details.
4 Elements That Make A Good User Experience Into Something Great. In the main, entries to this year’s Interaction Awards were good.
The apps, the websites, the interfaces, and the games were slick and sleek. Xbox 720 to feature touch-screen remote? Xbox World magazine published some rather bold claims about Microsoft's upcoming game console in its latest issue.
The publication cited sources saying said the Xbox 720 will support a souped-up controller that touts an HD touch screen in addition to traditional analog sticks and buttons. The design is pretty similar to the Nintendo Wii U 's own tablet controller, though the Microsoft version is said to be closer in size to to Sony's PlayStation Vita . According to Xbox World, this Xbox touch-screen controller also doubles as a TV remote control, a Web browser, and a panel for displaying software buttons and game information. To up the overall gaming experience, the Xbox 720 has also been rumored to offer augmented-reality capabilities, directional sound and an improved Kinect accessory.
Malware Developers Tread the Open Source Route. Cyber criminals have adopted an open source model with the vision of making development of banking Trojans and other malware far easier than they are today.
According to security experts, the new threat emerged after the developers of Citadel had embraced the open source and Software as a Service model, thus facilitating themselves with a more efficient platform to come up with more advanced and deadlier malware. Citadel happens to be one of the latest variant of the notorious Zeus Trojan. Ever since VXers adopted the open source malware approach, many new modified versions of Zeus Trojan have come up over the past few weeks.