McKayla is not impressed with Thursday's big tech stories:
Microsoft's crime-fighting tech for sale
Microsoft helped develop a surveillance system for New York that pulls in information from video camera footage, 9-1-1 calls, radiation detectors and license plate readers, and analyzes the data in real-time to better fight crime and terrorism. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the program, known as the Domain Awareness System, and it will be available to law enforcement agencies around the world (New York earns 30 percent of sales revenue). It doesn't use face-recognition software, but even still, some critics are worried officers could abuse this technology and track citizens without obtaining a warrant. Bloomberg says this system just uses the existing cameras and sensors to help officers identify a trend and respond more quickly.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt may have the fastest legs in the world, but the fastest thumbs belong to 17-year-old Austin Wierschke from Wisconsin, the two-time winner of the LG National Texting Championship. To win the $50,000 prize, you must copy phrases quickly, decode text shorthand speak and even text blindfolded. They were all using an LG Opt... [Read more]
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