Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week it's the all new and improved twitter craigslist clean it up and the benefits of video games but first it's the gadget of the week the gadgets a week is dell's new 10-inch tablet which is totally going to take on the ipad for sure touchscreen display dual-core Intel Atom processor it runs windows 7 and get this this tablet has a hidden feature wait for it allow me to introduce you to dual personality dell inspiron duo that's right it's a tablet with a keyboard you flip the screen around you can fold it up and then your tablet totally has it oh for the love of God it's a frigging convertible tablet laptop this is not a tablet this is to an actual tablet as clip-on sunglasses that flip up our to actual sunglasses just come on dell so you just make a tablet and now for the news Twitter held a press conference this week to show off its new and improved interface now instead of just seeing tweets there's a second pain in which you can see more content pictures geolocation user profiles videos all kinds of stuff the intent is to keep people on the main Twitter site which is great but of course the first thing we all thought was hey pretty what about the fail well no not a word about site stability at that press conference also not a word about making more money or about better search but at least there were pretty pictures some lucky people have the new interface right now while others will see it in the coming weeks along with almost certainly the fail whale come on you know it's true in other news this week craigslist says it is officially out of the pimp game the company's director of law enforcement and customer service relations was called to testify before the house judiciary committee this week on the subject of sex trafficking of minors he told the committee that craigslist has permanently closed its adult services section but he also said the section had actually helped craigslist fight human trafficking and exploitation which might have been true when Craigslist wasn't linking directly to human trafficking and exploitation see there have to be better ways speaking of exploitation Google confirm this week that it fired an engineer who used his powers there to get personal information on several teenagers and harassed them because google also has tons of your personal information and we have little to no idea who is able to access it and what they do with it and if the allegations against this engineer are true I kind of want off the internet again hey you know how people are always saying that playing video games rot your brain well cognitive scientists at the University of Rochester published a study showing that people who play fast action based games actually make quicker accurate decisions how awesome is that like Halo Reach could give me split second cat-like reflexes at flapjacks and speaking of nerds and throwing things Apple this week denied reports that Steve Jobs was busted trying to smuggle Japanese throwing stars on to his own private plane apparently he was fascinated with the throwing stars because they only work when you hold them just right but seriously let's be honest if anyone was going to smuggle shuriken it would totally be Steve Jobs badass and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching split-second cat-like reflexes just from the cat-like reflexes that cat-like reflexes so that I could like get split second cat-like reflexes from the flapjacks no dude you got to hit me in the face okay otherwise it doesn't count