Google Privacy

There are many different ways you can use our services – to search for and share information, to communicate with other people or to create new content. When you share information with us, for example by creating a Google Account, we can make those services even better – to show you more relevant search results and ads, to help you connect with people or to make sharing with others quicker and easier. As you use our services, we want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy.

Our Privacy Policy explains:

What information we collect and why we collect it.

How we use that information.

The choices we offer, including how to access and update information.

We’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible, but if you’re not familiar with terms like cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then read about these key terms first. Your privacy matters to Google so whether you are new to Google or a long-time user, please do take the time to get to know our practices – and if you have any questions consult this page. Information we collect

We collect information to provide better services to all of our users – from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find most useful or the people who matter most to you online.

We collect information in two ways:

Information you give us. For example, many of our services require you to sign up for a Google Account. When you do, we’ll ask for personal information, like your name, email address, telephone number or credit card. If you want to take full advantage of the sharing features we offer, we might also ask you to create a publicly visible Google Profile, which may include your name and photo.

Information we get from your use of our services. We may collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, like when you visit a website that uses our advertising services or you view and interact with our ads and content.

This is goggles terms of Privacy Policy and they say that it is safe and everything. I think that it shows a lot of thing to the public. Say you didn’t want anyone to know where you live but you could put something up about it or you have to put in for the account, the public would know where you live.

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Self-driving cars

                                                      Self-driving cars

Would you buy a self-driving car that couldn’t drive itself in 99 percent of the country? Or that knew nearly nothing about parking, couldn’t be taken out in snow or heavy rain, and would drive straight over a gaping pothole?

If your answer is yes, then check out the Google Self-Driving Car, model year 2014.

Of course, Google isn’t yet selling its now-famous robotic vehicle and has said that its technology will be thoroughly tested before it ever does. But the car clearly isn’t ready yet, as evidenced by the list of things it can’t currently do—volunteered by Chris Urmson, director of the Google car team.

Google’s cars have safely driven more than 700,000 miles. As a result, “the public seems to think that all of the technology issues are solved,” says Steven Shladover, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies. “But that is simply not the case.” No one knows that better than Urmson. But he says he is optimistic about tackling outstanding challenges and that it’s “going to happen more quickly than many people think.”

I think self-driving cars are amazing. They help the blind or the special needs to drive. They help them feel like they aren’t special needs or they feel free.

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Batteries

                                                                 

Batteries 

The battery is a device that converts chemical energy into electricity. Like most important inventions, this device has many different versions originating from the 19th century, making the history of the battery quite interesting. The battery is a combination of many different elements that have spawned new and inventive ways of creation through the comprehension of its creation, used for almost every aspect of modern life. The battery has made a progressive transformation from a crude invention made of simple elements to one of complexity and vast potential. The battery has helped in the growth of technology, and has become a big innovation toward modern living because of it.

The invention of the battery can be dated back to 250B.C. in Baghdad, Iraq where it was used in a process to electroplate objects with a thin layer of metal just like how gold and jewelry are plated today. From 1780 to about 1786, Luigi Galvani observed that when pieces of iron and brass are connected to frog's legs, he got them to twitch. This started the interest in what was known as voltaic electricity, after Alessandro Volta. From 1796-1799 he experimented with such elements as Zinc and Silver and invented what was known as the first "dry battery consisting of a pile of the two elements. Before the turn of the century, he had modified this using a salt solution and it was called the "crown of cups . Karl Gilbert Grove in 1839 and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in 1842 later developed the successful use of liquid electrodes. By 1866, the French Engineer Georges Lelanche had made his own patent out of a porous pot with crushed Manganese dioxide with a little Carbon (positive) mixed in with a Zinc rod (negative). In just two years, his version had sold 20,000 batteries for telegraph machines. The idea of placing both the negative and porous pot into a Zinc capsule was conjured up by J.A. Thiebaut in 1881.

The first evidence of batteries was dated to be from in the neighborhood of 250B.C. These ancient batteries were discovered in archaeological digs in Baghdad, Iraq. These antiquated batteries were used in simple operations to electroplate objects with a thin layer of metal, much the same way we plate things with gold and silver. Much later, batteries were re-discovered in 1800 by a man named Alessandro Volta. The electrical unit of potential was named after him-the volt. Alessandro Volta was born in 1745 and died in 1827, and in this time period he re-produced one of the most important parts of life. He developed the battery by alternating pieces of electrolyte soaked discs (sodium chloride), zinc, and copper plates. These plates and discs were stacked in a 1 2 3 order, and when a wire was placed on the two poles of the battery it would produce electricity. 


I think that this absolutely true about batteries and that life would be hard without electricity. If you had a phone and did not have a battery

in it, you would have to plug it up everywhere you go and some cars don’t have plugs in them.

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Medical Technology

Painless needles are one way technology is improving society. Needles are always scaring young children and even adults. Now with the new painless needle pediatricians can give vaccinations pain free. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology call theses new needles micro needles. They are made from silicon, metal, glass or biodegradable polymer. Theses needles are 500 times smaller then ordinary hypodermic needles, which are too small to irritate nerve endings. These new needles will consist of 400 embedded micro needles will be glued to a patch that will gently puncture the skin. Now with this new technology society can have pain free shots.

I think this new technology is amazing especially for little kids who are scared of needles. If they need shots they won’t be scared of them anymore.

Technology has also helped medicine with the use of robots. At the Bay front Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, Jeff Lannigan oversees 1,300 prescriptions a day. That is a huge amount of prescriptions. Now he has a new kind of help. Spencer is a one million dollar robot that dispenses prescriptions at speedy rates. It takes Spencer three and a half hours to do what it took pharmacists 24 hours to do. This new technology also eliminates the room for human error. This means that people will have the right medication every time. If you are a customer waiting for a prescription than this technology will defiantly better society. Some people say that this new technology will hurt society because it will eliminate jobs for pharmacists. This is not true. The article says, “Instead of spending the whole day dispensing medicines, pharmacists have time to do what they’re trained to do—take care of patients.” “You are able to look at patients’ medication and make decisions on how to change things,” says Dilkhush. This is another example of how technology has helped medicine have a positive impact on society.

I think this is way better because we don’t have to wait as long to get our prescription. I think everyone needs this because it is so slow.

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