15 iPhone Apps That Will Make Your Life Much Easier
On 5/22/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
What would we do without smartphones? Constantly in our hands or our pockets, our trusty devices make our lives easier and more efficient.
Apps are on the rise, with more than 218 billion app downloads in 2020, according to TechCrunch. But there s plenty more to be discovered than social media favourites Facebook and Instagram. Many offer innovative tools to keep track of travel, note-keeping, and weather checking.
For those really intent on optimising their habits, these are the 15 apps your home screen might be missing.
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Google Maps and Waze
Eligible households get offered a temporary discount of as much as $75 a month on their broadband bill and a one-time discount of up to $100 to buy a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer if they
Virtual Reality Utilized for Police De-Escalation Training
On 5/20/21 at 10:56 AM EDT
An Indiana police department is using virtual reality to train its officers on how to de-escalate dangerous situations that could end in injuries or fatalities.
The Greenfield Police Department in central Indiana demonstrated the new technology on Wednesday as an officer showed local media a virtual simulation of a situation that police would be expected to de-escalate.
Fox 59 reported that the virtual reality training system provided by Evolution VR began in the spring, and allowed police trainers to see where officers can improve their de-escalation responses.
Speaking to Fox59 on Wednesday, Greenfield Police Capt. Chuck McMichael said the technology allowed the force to quickly put officers in a range of scenarios. Sometimes de-escalation skills are not going to work, and you have people who are set on doing bad things, he added. Sometimes using force of some type, or whatever level, is g
Interactive Time Capsule Site Lets Users Visit the Internet Ten Years Ago
On 5/14/21 at 5:33 AM EDT
It s 2011. Barack Obama is in the White House,
The Oprah Winfrey Show ends after 25 years, and kids are grooving to the hip new sounds of LMFAO and Foster the People.
Seem like forever ago? Imagine how much the digital space has changed since then too. Ten Years Ago is an interactive website that allows users to browse popular websites, frozen in time from a decade ago to the date.
The site displays pages including Reddit, YouTube and Amazon, with easy and direct access to explore what they looked like ten years back. Media publications including BBC and The New York Times make for easy perusing of what the world was talking about too.
Higher Ed Needs Higher Tech | Opinion Nick Martin
, founder and CEO, TechChange On 4/29/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
In spring 2020, when I had to take in-person courses online, I was given the following instructions from my university department: Here s a Zoom account. Good luck.
That s it. There wasn t much support or suggestions on how we could transition a semester s worth of content that s done in a classroom to an entirely remote experience. It illustrated the lack of innovation and investment in the college classroom that s been plaguing universities for years. Colleges have historically not invested in IT. One study indicated that less than 5 percent of an annual college budget goes to technology.