Computer Had Made Teenagers Hard To Read and Count
A study in United States of America (USA) stated that the computer using among teenagers will weaken the math and reading capability. As quoted from Sunday Telegraph yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research found that computer will result the contra-productive among students achievement.
The research involved 500.000 students. The report mentioned that introducing computer(s) to ten years old will not do any good to the students math and reading. Jacob Vigdor, one of the researcher said that computer acces started five or eight years tend to show the score decreasing in math and reading.
Vigdor claimed the computer had made children becoming hard to focus, lack of socializing ability and caused children to play games a lot.
Anyhow the research summarized that the parents control over children is needed to minimize the negative effects of the using. The parents control will benefit a lot for children, Vidgor added.
Facebook With Facial Recognition For Easy Tagging
Facebook will add what called ‘facial recognition’, that will ease the photo tagging. As we know at present, to tag a person, we must first manually identify faces in photos(s), click on the spot and choose a name from our list. The new system introduces face recognition that is able to detect the faces on screen. Facial recognition already apply in the midst of last week.
As quoted from Telegraph yesterday, Facebook mentioned that this facial recognition works in the same way as digical camera software. The new feature will make photo tagging be faster and easier, because user don’t have to select each and every faces on the screen. The software will work for it.
Google Never Gives Up On Facebook
Google might be the ‘king of search engine, but anyhow social networking still belongs to facebook or twitter. A rumor indicates that Google still haven’t given up in social network service. The rumor was first spread by Kevin Rose (’Digg’ founder) via twitter. Kevin Rose him self claimed that he got the news from a ‘trustable source’.
Quoted from SFWeekly on Monday, if the rumor by Rose really is true, then this will be Google’s second attempt to build a social network.
Previously Google already had a site named Orkut, Google has also tried to compete twitter with Google Buzz. But all those efforts didn’t lead any good. SFWeekly announced that Google Me is predicted as the upgrade-version toward the existing Google Profiles.
