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Adulating and the School vs Work Equilibrium - EriksTech

Erik's search for the answer to the school-verses-Work question featuring the advice of the respected.

If your having adulting problems I feel bad for you son, got 99 problems but this ones the biggest. 

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June 10, 2016

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On February 26, the FCC is going to decide if the internet should stay free and fair, or if it should be handed over to the cable companies.

You don’t want them to pick the cable companies.

Join everybody on the internet to help the FCC do the right thing.

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David Meyer, gigaom.com

Back in September, ZDNet Microsoft-watcher Mary-Jo Foley reported that the next version of Internet Explorer was being developed under the codename “Spartan”. On Monday, though, she quoted anonymous sources as saying Spartan would be a whole new…

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Check this guy out he has warned about the 1st tech wreck before it happened the housing bubble, the great recession of 07’-10’.

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Looking Back: 5 years of Google search trends -Erik's Tech Blog

Google gives us insight into the worlds priorities with Google Search Trends.

Take a look back at the last 5 years with Google's top 10 search trends and their annual "year in review" videos. 

Bring in the new year by sharing your most inspiring moments of 2014! Have a safe and happy Holiday! 

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Crowd Funded Security Tech - Erik's Tech Blog

Check out these great crowdfunded security solutions!

Check out ETB's favorite crowd funded security technology! 

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Computers That Touch On The Verge Of A Revolution

by Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science

The electronic revolution has engaged the human senses of vision and hearing. Until recently, it has mostly ignored smell, taste, and touch.

But the sense of touch is on the cusp of its own revolution. The technology is called haptics, a broad definition that relates to anything you can feel.

“Haptics is to touch what optics is to sight,” said Will Provancher, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and CEO of a company building haptic devices.

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Whether you go into coding or not, it teaches you how to think.

Kaya Henderson, DC Chancellor of Schools (via codeorg)

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R2-D2 USB Car Charger

http://gizmosandgadgets.org/r2-d2-usb-car-charger/

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Connecting the World's Data Through Submarine Cables - Erik's Tech Blog

Dive into the interesting world of submarine communication cables! Check out TeleGeography's interactive map and video of how cables are laid in the ocean.

How does data get from one continent to another? Find out here! 

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How to Avoid Holiday Scams - Erik's Tech Blog

Here are some tips to avoiding scams this holiday season.

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History of the World Wide Web - Erik's Tech Blog

Find out where the famous WWW. in your address bar got its roots with an in depth history of the World Wide Web.

Here's a post for all those internet historians. Tim Berners-Lee is one of my favorite tech icons. 

Check out more posts at erikstech.com! 

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Top 5 Online Learning Resources - Erik's Tech Blog

Find out how these companies are helping professionals land their dream jobs with Erik's Blog's Top 5 Online Learning Resources.

Check out ETB's top 5 online learning resources!

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The Hour of Code at a Microsoft Store in Bellevue, WA! Microsoft is hosting Hour of Code workshops all week, across the country.

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Canatu developed a flexible and transparent touchscreen

The finish startup Canatu invented a transparent conductive film made of “nanobuds” (molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages) that could turn any surface into a touch sensor. Snip from TechReview:

The films […] could be used to add touch controls to curved automobile consoles and dashboards, for example. The films are rugged and can be repeatedly bent around something as thin as the cord for your earbuds, so they could be handy for adding buttons to flexible devices.

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