Question

Choose a topic from the web articles and write a short essay.

topics: 1) What is Magecart ?

2) Research on robotic arm controlled by your mind ?

3) How networks are being used to study environments

4) How you can keep track of your (grand)parents at home.

5) Different services to help the elderly at home.

6) How networked classrooms can enhance learning and bridge the gender gap

7) A way to control mites in beehives.

8) How linking brains might help problem-solving

Please address the following:

What is the technology?

How does it work?

What is it trying to solve?

What are the implications of this technology for the future?

Can you see it helping you or people you know?

Answer 1

1. Magecart refers to cyberattacks in which hackers implant malicious computer code into websites and third-party suppliers of digital systems to steal credit card info as people enter it at a checkout page.
2. Carnegie Mellon researchers working with peers from the University of Minnesota have made a big breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) and robotic technology: They've developed a way for a person to control a robot arm with their minds with no surgery or invasive procedures required to make it possible.
3. Development in the technology of sensor such as Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), wireless communications, embedded systems, distributed processing and wireless sensor applications have contributed a large transformation in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) recently. It assists and improves work performance both in the field of industry and our daily life. Wireless Sensor Network has been widely used in many areas especially for surveillance and monitoring in agriculture and habitat monitoring. Environment monitoring has become an important field of control and protection, providing real-time system and control communication with the physical world. An intelligent and smart Wireless Sensor Network system can gather and process a large amount of data from the beginning of the monitoring and manage air quality, the conditions of traffic, to weather situations. In this paper, we discuss and review wireless sensor network applications for environmental monitoring. In order to implement a good monitoring system, there are several requirements to be followed. From the studies, it has been proved to be an alternative way to replace the conventional method that uses men force to monitor the environment. It is also proven that these approaches can improve the system performance, provide a convenient and efficient method and can also fulfill functional requirements.
4. GPS LOCATION TRACKER: For those more interested in mobile tracking, GPS Location Tracker covers most mobile devices, making it useful for tracking family members, as well as lost devices. This app lets you track family member’s locations on your mobile phone and also see movements from prior days. All location history is cached in a secure server and is accessible via Internet or mobile browser.
5. Whether it’s a parent, a grandparent, a relative, a friend, or even ourselves, the new challenges and changes that come with aging require our flexibility, openness to change, and acceptance of a new way of life. Instead of focusing on the negatives we may associate with our senior years and long-term care (any decline in health, physical mobility, cognitive ability, and social isolation), we need to take a non-judgmental attitude to the natural changes our bodies go through and focus on what we can do during our later years.

We need to ensure that the activities of daily living (ADL) are met efficiently and safely : Cleaning and Maintaining the Home, Cooking and Preparing Meals, Cooking and Preparing Meals, Shopping and Buying Necessities, Running Errands (Moving within the community), Managing Money and Finances, Communicating (Through phone or other devices), Taking Prescribed Medications.

6. Gender inequality in education likely affects education indirectly, through different channels such as by lowering the fertility rate, increasing the life span of the population, and increasing social cohesion

• Sift a pound of powdered sugar using a baking flour sifter. ...
• Put the sifted sugar into an empty (and cleaned), baby powder container (alternatively you can improvise your own container).
• Smoke and open the hive
• Avoid dusting any open cells

8. Another area of the brain vital to problem solving is the prefrontal cortex, located toward the front of the brain. For a long time, it was thought that some parts of the prefrontal cortex were only involved in simple thought, while others activated during complex problem solving.

In fact it's the 'thinking' in response to our environmental experiences and interaction with our world that actually shapes our brains.So in short, the answer to the question, does technology change our bodies and our brains, is yes, technology affects our memory, our attention, what we focus on and our sleep cycles

But the truth is technology helps us in many ways.In fact, three specific reasons that technology is good is that it saves lives by improving medicine, keeps us connected to each other, and provides education and entertainment. One reason why technology is good is that it has saved many lives.