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.
GreenPeace ‘Greenest Electrical Companies’ of 2010 List Released
GreenPeace had decided The Finland Company, Nokia as number one in Green Company chart. The list was released last week. The list showed that Nokia was taking the first place, while Sony Ericsson and Phillips was taking second and third place.
Toshiba and Samsung is out of big ten, both company was considered ‘failed’ in omitting PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) and BFR (Brominated Flame Reterdants) in their products. FYI, PVC and BFR is added to avoid electronics product burned, unfortunately both material is quite dangerous for human’s health.
The Greenpeace List is expected to urge electronics manufactures to be more aware of maintaining a greener environment, with keeping the commitment to keep PVC and BFR away from their produts.
Here is the Green Company List as released by GreenPeace (quoted from Cellular news last week) :
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.
