Technological Privacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/business/international/adviser-to-europes-top-court-calls-data-transfer-pact-insufficient.html?ref=topics&_r=0

Today's society has become more advanced and more aspects of our lives are featuring technology. With this aspect of our lives, we need our technology to be able to be secure and effective . Because our information and lives through this day is documented and can be seen by everyone in the world. In this article, a new major law was established that states the area between the U.S and Europe should be safe harbor for sharing information between companies when news that information was leeked. This law would effect companies that constantly deal with information sharing for ads like google and Facebook. A few non disclosed American companies leaked information of European citizens that was abused by companies and governments. The online advertising business and companies that deal with online data transferring could take a major finical hit as well if this decision is to impact further restrictions down the road.

Apps For Your Phone

The social media craze has been had its hold over new apps for phones and technology. You have your twitter, Instagram, vine, etc . But a very common and popular app that a lot of young people have been using recently is Snap Chat. In this information age where everyone is connected, Snap Chat can keep people connected instantly . The device works as in sending pictures to other people that you can see. These pictures can be sent within seconds to friends and family, no matter the distance. It's a great and quick way for keeping in touch with everyone. You can add cool filters to the   photos you send, and add little icons of the counties or cities your in. The reason why a lot of people enjoy snap chat is you can not only communicate through words, but through pictures as well. People in this era of social media love to capture moments , and snap chat helps you capture everything. From musical events, to places around the world. Snap chat can capture the moments that you want other people to see. You can put up cool moments for everyone to look at. In this new day and age of social media, snap chat is on its way to becoming one of the most popular social media apps in the world. You can use snap chat to personalize your snap story, and be able to stay connected with friends. It is a free app for phones, and was developed years ago. 

Cars of the Future

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/daily-report-googles-driverless-car-learns-to-navigate-an-imperfect-world/?ref=technology

As we go on further into the future technological breakthroughs come as the years go by. The newest innovation that is about to hit the world is automated cars. With the threat of human choice always a concern for accidents to happen, why not take humans out of the equation? The google driverless car has been going through more tests and trials and could even qualify for a safe drivers discount in 3 years according to the article . We already have robots perferoming surgeries around the world, its not to far fetched to think this technology could be driving us around in the future. While these cars are far from being able to be driven by the public, google has been doing more tests and trials on the car. In a recent accident report by google, the self automated car had a safety driver who stopped to close from a cross walk. The pedestrian was fine, but the google car was hit from behind. After tests were done on the accident, it was shown that if their was no safety driver the google car wouldn't have gotten into an accident. While this one test doesn't give enough evidence to show that automated cars should be used now, it does go to show this technology is not far off from being a regular thread in our society. But the autonomous cars are for now an idea for the future. A more perfect future where human imperfections are taken out of the equation.