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How much has your mobile phone altered your mind?

04/05/202304/04/2023 John Montgallo

Cellular devices have come a long way over the last fifty years, including changing how you think. The mobile phone has become ubiquitous in our society, and their use has gone well beyond simply talking to someone who isn’t physically present. These devices are used for a broad spectrum of purposes, to the point that they are altering the way we think of accomplishing tasks throughout our typical days. That said, many are starting to wonder if these devices are actually changing our brains. Many of us spend far too…

QR code on Persil packs adds accessibility

03/29/202303/28/2023 John Montgallo

Unilever has announced that the barcodes will help people who are partially sighted or blind. Unilever has partnered with Zapvision to add a QR code to its Persil packs in order to make its products more accessible to customers who are partially sighted or blind. The barcode system was created by Zappar, a digital agency and member of AIPIA. The new partnership means that the special QR code is now available on Persil laundry detergent products that will be sold throughout the United Kingdom. While this technology was originally unveiled…

All social media apps have risks similar to TikTok

03/22/202303/21/2023 John Montgallo

A transparency group is cautioning that the Chinese platform isn’t the only one posing risks. A nonprofit advocacy group called the Tech Oversight Project is urging Congress to hold US social medias accountable ahead of hearing testimony from TikTok’s CEO. The group says the US platforms pose similar national security and mental health risks to TikTok. The nonprofit has stated that Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc.’s social media apps such as Facebook and Instagram, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc’s products all employ comparable harmful business practices to TikTok. Moreover,…

Mozilla ups its Firefox mobile security with cookie protection tool

03/17/202303/15/2023 John Montgallo

The company has tightened the privacy available through its browser app for Android. Mozilla has announced that it has enhanced the mobile security and privacy protection in the Android version of its Firefox browser app to allow users to stop cookies from tracking them between sites. It has become commonplace for people to shop for a product on one site and see it elsewhere in an ad. It would be difficult to find a device users who hadn’t been shopping online for a product of some kind, only to decide…

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant misses its mark

03/08/202303/07/2023 John Montgallo

The company is now making the largest cuts in its history to the teams working on that technology. The teams at Amazon that have been working on the Alexa voice assistant are being hit by the largest job cuts the company has ever seen. The concept of Alexa was first created by Jeff Bezos more than a decade ago on a whiteboard. In Bezos’ vision of the voice assistant, it would provide the user with help in completing a full spectrum of different tasks ranging from reading a bedtime story…