TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE

Review: 5 Features That Convinced Me To Get The Samsung Galaxy Note8 Alas, the Samsung Galaxy Note8 is finally here. As a gadget lover and Samsung electronics liker (see the newly purchased television screen sitting in my comfy living room), I was pretty excited to get my hands on the new cellular phone from the Korean brand’s mobile device family. I must admit, like many stylus lovers, I was pretty bummed about having to send back the Note7 during last year’s massive and unfortunate recall. Although I only experienced the Note7’s dopeness for a short span of 19 days,  I missed using one of my many useful tools of productivity. I wanted to go back to the time when I could whip out my faux pen and doodle endlessly on my phone. But when I heard Samsung had plans to come back with a new Note device, I was ecstatic. My short-lived happy moment that was shipped back to the manufacturer over a year ago finally returned in the form of the black and metallic blue-inscribed box. READ:

Why Did Facebook Promote Fake News About the Las Vegas Massacre? Tech giants aren’t doing enough to police their platforms. Is Facebook having a Frankenstein moment when it comes to news aggregation—has it created something it can’t fully control? The company’s executives might tell you that it has, but this is absolutely not the case. The reality is that Facebook needs to hire humans to edit and review the content it promotes as news—and it needs to hire a lot of them. Facebook argues that it has just too much content to moderate and that new algorithms and artificial intelligence are what we need to stop the spread of false stories. Clearly, they are not. Shortly after the massacre in Las Vegas, a story from 4chan, a popular alt-right message board, blaming an innocent man for the shooting was being displayed on Google’s top stories module and the Facebook trends box and safety check page. The companies defended themselves by blaming their algorithms and said that the fak

THE International Space Station has become the first "off planet" addition to Google Maps' Street View facility. Astronauts helped capture 360-degree panoramas of the insides of the ISS modules, as well as views down to the Earth below. Some of the photography features pop-up text descriptions, marking the first time such annotations have appeared on the Maps platform. This is not the first time 360-degree imagery has been captured beyond Earth. In 2015, the European Space Agency published  its own interactive tour of the ISS . And last year Nasa repurposed images captured by its Pathfinder mission to Mars to create clips  suitable for virtual reality headsets . However, one of the benefits of Google's technology is that it should give members of the public an improved sense of freedom of movement and a greater choice of viewpoints than had been possible before. Image copyright GOOGLE Image caption The windows of the ISS's Cupola provide views down t