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While researching the topic of over-consumption, my colleagues and I gathered reliable information from websites, documents, books, and graphs in order to gain knowledge about over-consumption. These authors wrote about the positive and negative effects of all types of over-consumption, and they used studies to provide information that supports their stand on the topic. However, we collected data through trusted databases such as Gale, summarized important information, and cited each source in…

Hazardous Cookies When you go on to a site did you ever wonder if you were being watched. Even on your own personal device. Well with cookies you are. These cookies aren't the ones you eat they are “used to track users internet surfing, record their online purchases, and greet them by name when they visit a Website” says Patrick Cunningham the author of the article “Are Cookies Hazardous to Your Privacy?” He also tells us that “a cookie is a piece of information passed between an internet…

It's crazy to see things that you wouldn't think you would see on Facebook. Like when you look at a certain object on a different program and then it just pops up on your news feed then you wonder how it knew that you looked that up. A lot of the time it's just random things that pop up just to get your attention most of the time it doesn't get people attention but when these ads show up, someone else is getting paid as they show up. Every moment that passes by and an ad come in they get some…

Marissa Mayer, the ill-fated CEO of Yahoo!, clearly made some major blunders during her early tenure at the company. Specifically, she lacked a long-term strategy, refused to listen to other members of her team, and invested in a series of failed marketing ventures instead of focusing on improving fundamentals. Miguel Helft from Forbes magazine documents these points quite thoroughly in his article “The Last Days of Marissa Mayer?” Time and time again, Mayer refused to adhere to a single,…

From the moment I walked into Google headquarters in New York City last June, I felt like I belonged to something so amazing. All of the employees welcomed me with open arms as I entered a room that felt like the home of technology. Each person in that building had something very unique about themselves however they all shared a common passion which is engineering and technology. Hearing about each of the jobs they offered at Google made me want to learn more about the field of computer…

Google, a leading giant in the technology business, is becoming a company that not only leads the technology world, but starting to lead our world. Google is a company that was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. There hopes were to make it easier for people to go onto the internet and find relevant and useful information to their search. They went to Stanford University and were both working on a project that was designed to compute the popularity of sites. This project was called “BackRub…

History of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin is meet at Stanford University in 1995. At 1996, they create a project called BackRub, that project is using incoming links to determine the importance of individual pages. Google's name is actually derived from mathematical term googol, which means back 1 plus 100 zeros. In 1998, Google Inc. will be born because the common Sun Microsystems (Sun) founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $ 100,000 US dollars to a non-existent company,…

Social Media: The Addiction The new generation of young adults lives amidst a fairly new type of technology that is known as The Internet. When first created, a computer would fill up an entire room. As of 2015, a cell phone that fits in the palm of your hand and the pocket of pants can carry more advanced technology that wasn’t even imaginable in years prior. Social media sites are some of the largest sources for following celebrities, friends, and family and also to be linked to the rest of…

8646449 The effect of technology in schools The rate schools are adding technology into their curriculums is increasing at an alarming rate. Is this something to worry about? Before schools had technology everything was done by hand and with paper. Then everything changed when the introduction of technology started. School started to become more and more modern with the use of gadgets and online software and tools. The use of technology also brought along some of biggest distractions from…

School teacher, Seth Taylor uses Google Classroom which allows students to work online. Taylor says it makes his life easier because Google Classroom can grade papers automatically. It can allows allow teachers to check up on their students and it also allows students to turn in their assignment online rather than them forgetting to turn in their assignments. Taylor said that technology is especially helpful by giving him more time to focus on instruction (Gaddy). Google Translate is also…