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Grandfather launches smart gun push after Sandy Hook

His 6-year-old grandson, Ben Wheeler, was one of 26 people killed in the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. As a way of helping memorialize Ben's brief life, Lobis has launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance an idea he hopes will protect others: a biometric locking station for firearms. The idea is that guns would be stored in a carrier that could only be unlocked by their owner's fingerprint, making it difficult for intruders or children to get hold of them.

Along with business partner Ben Tomb, Lobis hopes to raise $100,000 to build the technology, called Protector XT.

Lobis, who invests in startups, met Tomb by chance following the death of his grandson. Tomb was building out biometric technology aimed at gun safety. He shared the same first name as Lobis's grandson.

favorite restaurant

• The name of my favorite restaurant is Quickchek. Located on 720 Washington Ave.
• The food that they serve is deli style sandwiches with their own twist.
• My favorite dish from the restaurant is the crispy buffalo chicken sub.
• The history of the restaurant dates back many years. It is a franchise thats been around for a while
• If this restaurant closed down I would find another one in a different location to buy food from

Wiki 3/31

A wiki is a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by other users throughout the site. Wikis can be used in education to research topics and ideas.

The guns that know who is firing them: Can smart tech make firearms safer?

(CNN) -- As a teenager, Omer Kiyani was shot in the face with an unsecured firearm. He still struggles with the trauma. But the Detroit engineer now believes he has created a device that would have saved him and may save thousands of others.

He calls it "Identilock," and while it still needs final adjustments to the prototype and further investment, Kiyani expects to launch his smart gun technology in U.S. stores within a year, retailing for around $300.

The device attaches to the trigger of a handgun, which can then only be unlocked by biometric authentication, preventing any unauthorized user from firing the weapon. Drawing on breakthroughs in mobile technology, the trigger is released by similar fingerprint sensors to those used in Apple's iPhone 5S. Those sensors are approved by the FBI, and widely found in security scanners.

"The key is reliability," says Kiyani. "The sensor has proved itself in different sectors over the past few years and the market is aware of its capability."

What makes me purchase something is a matter of if I need it or not, if it is a necessity i will spend my money on it. Also if it is something that Im interested in at a discounted price I will contemplate whether to buy it or not

Invisibility

If I had a invisible cloak for 1 day, I would stretch it over my car s
o i have my own Bat Mobile. I would drive around Moonachie looking for crime to neutralize.

Yik Yak chat app stirring up trouble in high schools

 From Chicago, to Georgia, to Southern California, a new social media application is causing problems on middle school and high school campuses across the United States.

It's called Yik Yak, a location-based app that creates an anonymous social chat room where up to 500 nearby users connect through GPS tracking on their phones. Less than 4 months old, Yik Yak has "a couple hundred thousand users, mainly in Southeast/East coast campuses," its co-founder Brooks Buffington said.

Users are limited to 200 characters, and no pictures are allowed. If a post is "down voted" enough times by other users on the forum, the comment disappears. Tech experts are comparing the new Atlanta-based app to a cross between SnapChat and Twitter.

"The app was made for college-age users or above, for college campuses and to act as a virtual bulletin board, so it acts as local Twitter for their campus," Buffington told CNN.

Although the app is meant for users age 17 and older, younger users can still sign up, and that's where the issues have sprouted.

School administrators in Chicago said teens in some of their schools have used the free app for cyberbullying. Others have made anonymous bomb threats that have led to school lockdowns.

"Students were actually coming downstairs to talk to administration, and they were mentioning remarks posted and student names that were obvious, so of course that is going to impact you," Melvin Soto, assistant vice principal at Whitney Young High School, told CNN affiliate WLS.

Some students have compared it to a virtual bathroom wall where users post vitriol and hate.

Here's some more good news for Netflix: The company's consumer satisfaction rating is at a three year high as the sting of a price hike wears off.

The company's overall score registered a bigger year-over-year increase than any other online retailer in 2013, according to a survey of tens of thousands of consumers conducted by the American Customer Satisfaction Index.The research group, which shortens its name to ACSI, said the streaming video service "seems to be well on its way to recovering from the massive hit to customer satisfaction that was inflicted by the 2011 increase in fees."

Netflix's score in 2013 was 79, up 5% from a score of 75 in 2012. This compared favorably to an overall decline in the online retailer sector, which includes companies like eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) and Overstock (OSTK) that are in very different businesses than Netflix (NFLX) but are grouped together for the purposes of the index.

ACSI says it assesses customer opinions of more than 230 American companies. Retail data was released on Wednesday. Claes Fornell, the index's founder, chalked up the declines among online retailers to consumer frustration over last-minute holiday purchases that were delayed due to inclement weather.

My class

English IIII

My teacher is Mrs. Greene, who is a little older than most teachers but also one of the more energetic.

When the class first started I was expected to be able to read and write and a higher level than I was able to before. 

What I have learned to date was a long list of SAT vocabulary words

http://www.majortests.com/sat/wordlist.php

The most interesting part of the class is Mrs. Greene, she has a real passion for teaching and it shows during the class.

 

The only technology that is used during that class is my phone to play flappy bird

Twitter reported strong sales in its first financial report since going public last year, but the stock fell in after hours trade on a disappointing outlook.

    The social network reported sales of $243 million in the fourth quarter, up 116% from the same time last year. That easily beat the $218 million in revenue that Wall Street analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had forecast.

   But for the current quarter, Twitter expects sales of between $230 and $240 million -- double last year's haul but lower than the past quarter. It would mark the first time Twitter's quarter-over-quarter sales have fallen since the company began reporting revenue in 2011.

Twitter shares were down nearly 18% in after-hours trading following a call with analysts.