Mike Herrick has a 13-year-old daughter who enjoys using her smartphone all the time.
His daughter often sends text messages to her friends, even if they are sitting a few
meters apart.
At times like those, he wonders about the effects that technology has on people, especially
children.
Herrick is a product and engineering executive at Urban Airship, a mobile technology company
in Portland, Oregon.
He told the Associated Press, "The power of this age we live in is that it has given
everyone access to all this information and the ability to stay connected to people, but
how do we manage it better?"
Other technology executives have similar questions.
Many say they enjoy their work.
But, they also are concerned about the addictive nature of mobile devices and social media.
The Pew Research Center released a study in August about what parents think about technology
in the lives of their children.
The study found that about 66 percent of U.S. parents worry that their teenage children
spend too much time with computers or mobile devices.
Seventy-two percent of parents said they thought their teenagers were sometimes distracted
by their phones when talking with them.
But 86 percent of parents said they are very or somewhat sure they permit the right amount
of phone or computer time for their children.
The study said 36 percent of parents admit to spending too much time on phones themselves.
Apple is trying to assist with some of the problems it helped create when it first released
the iPhone in 2007.
The company is offering more ways for parents to observe and control how much time they
and their kids spend on the devices.
New tools are available to keep children from using applications like Facebook, Snapchat
and Instagram completely or just at certain times of the day.
Google included similar controls in its latest version of the Android operating system, which
most of the world's smartphones use.
Kevin Systrom is one of the founders of the mobile phone application Instagram.
He is already promising to limit his 10-month-old daughter's use of devices and social media
as she grows up.
But Systrom also hopes his daughter will accept technology as he did when he began using computers
and the internet as a boy.
He says his early interest in technology led him to create Instagram.
The application now has more than 1 billion users worldwide.
Systrom said "Moderation is key.
I think we are in a world where we have to develop opinions on what that moderation is
and how to do it."
Brian Peterson is the co-founder and vice president of engineering at Dialpad, a telephone
technology company.
He says he loves his job and technology.
He gave both of his daughters iPads when they were 2-years-old.
At first, they were using applications that helped them to learn skills, like playing
a piano.
But a few years later, things changed.
Peterson noticed the girls spent most of their time watching YouTube videos or doing other
things that he and their mother wished they would not do.
Now, Peterson has decided not to get the girls smartphones until they are older.
He said, "I am just praying by the time that my kids really need a smartphone, they
have really good parental controls."
I'm Jonathan Evans.
01 November, 2018
Many Google employees protested Thursday against the way the company deals with sexual wrongdoing,
unequal pay and discrimination.
Employees walked off the job for a short period at Google offices in Asia, Europe and North
America.
The hashtag #Googlewalkout trended worldwide on Twitter.
Workers and protesters published images of the demonstrations in over 20 cities.
Hundreds of employees protested outside of Google's office in New York City.
They carried signs with messages like "Not OK Google," "Respect for Women" and "Don't
Be Evil" -- which used to be Google's motto.
More than a thousand workers reportedly gathered outside of Google's Mountain View, California,
headquarters.
In Dublin, Ireland, organizers and protesters showed support for victims of sexual harassment
at work.
Google employs 7,000 people in the city.
It is the company's largest office outside of the United States.
The protests are the latest effort in a movement that has brought attention to sexual wrongdoing
in the workplace.
Highly public cases have taken place in politics, business and the entertainment and technology
industries.
The Google protests also follow a recent story in the New York Times about accusations of
sexual wrongdoing against former-executive Andy Rubin.
The newspaper reported that in 2014 Google gave Rubin a $90 million payout to leave the
company.
Rubin denied sexual wrongdoing last week on Twitter.
The New York Times also reported on sexual misconduct accusations against other high-level
executives, including Richard DeVaul.
The director of the Google-connected "X" lab kept his job for several years after the accusations
were reported.
He resigned this week, reportedly without a special payment.
The chief of Google, Sundar Pichai, apologized for the company's "past actions" in an email
sent to employees.
"I understand the anger and disappointment that many of you feel," Pichai wrote.
"I feel it as well, and I am fully committed to making progress on an issue that has persisted
for far too long in our society...and, yes, here at Google, too."
Pichai said last week that Google had dismissed 48 employees for sexual harassment in recent
years including 13 high-level managers.
Google said none of them received payments to leave.
Organizers of Thursday's protests have called for Google to share information about employees'
pay.
They also want changes to make sexual harassment reporting more fair.
Alphabet Inc., the company that owns Google, has about 94,000 employees.
Thursday's protests suggest that a growing number of those workers do not believe the
company is following its current motto: "Do the right thing."
In August, about 1,000 employees signed a letter protesting the company's plan to create
a search engine that would meet China's censorship requirements.
Earlier this year, thousands of employees demanded that the company cancel Project Maven.
The program provides the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence processes to
improve drone strikes.
Google later reportedly said it would not continue that contract.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier is a Democratic Party member who represents the area where
Google has its headquarters.
She tweeted her support of the Google walkout.
Using the #MeToo, Speier wrote, "Why do they think it's OK to reward perpetrators & further
violate victims?"
I'm Bryan Lynn.
In a few weeks, the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
But experts in France say it could be another 100 years before France is cleansed from the
weapons left behind.
In fields across eastern France, bomb experts continue searching for ammunition and other
equipment left from the conflict.
Some remain unexploded and dangerous.
The Meuse river runs through Vilosnes-Haraumont, a town near the city of Verdun.
The German army placed thousands of shells in the river after the battle of Mort Homme
in 1916.
Last week, two divers jumped into the cold waters to tie ropes around many artillery
shells buried in the river.
Then a large machine carefully lifted the old bombs out of the water and placed them
on the grass.
In one day, workers removed more than five tons of unexploded shells from the Meuse.
A demining center in Metz, France, says it collects between 45 and 50 tons of bombs a
year.
The center says there are at least 250 to 300 tons still buried in the nearby rivers
and hills of eastern France.
Guy Momper is the bomb clearance expert leading the removal effort.
"We need to tidy up the land," he said.
When a shell is found, he said, "we go out and collect it."
World War I was mostly fought on French and Belgian land.
More than 10 million soldiers, including 1.4 million French, died in the war.
The soldiers dug trenches; long, narrow spaces in the ground from which they would fight.
The war changed the land of France, Germany and Belgium.
It ended on Nov. 11, 1918.
But, its effects can still be seen.
Old trenches are still in the fields and the ground still has many holes from exploded
bombs.
The bombs pulled from the Meuse river have little risk of exploding, but Momper and his
team want to be sure there are no accidents.
The team places the shells beside the road next to the river, to await their safe removal.
I'm Susan Shand
Most native-born Americans would fail a United States citizenship test if they had to take
it.
Yet people born in other countries must earn a test score of at least 60 percent to become
U.S. citizens.
The finding comes from a recent study supported by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation.
The non-profit is seeking to improve Americans' historical knowledge.
It says the results show teaching American students to memorize historical dates, names
and events is not effective.
About 1,000 Americans across the U.S. took the test for the study.
They were asked to choose the correct answer among several choices.
But more than half of test-takers could not identify the 13 American colonies, the number
of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, or the countries the U.S. fought during World
War II.
The group did even worse on other questions.
Three out of four did not know why the colonists fought the British during the Revolutionary
War, which led to the founding of the United States.
One in ten thought World War II General Dwight Eisenhower led troops in the U.S. Civil War.
While test-takers knew the cause of the Western countries' Cold War with Soviet countries
in the later 20thcentury, a few said the reason was climate change.
Older people over age 65 earned the highest scores on the test.
But only one in five people under the age of 45 passed it.
Arthur Levine is the president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
He pointed out that Americans have a chance to vote in the midterm elections on November
6.
In a democratic country especially, he said, "an informed and engaged citizenry is essential."
Levine added that history can be an anchor at a time of change, as well as a way to study
the changes that are happening.
And, he said, history can connect Americans at a time when divisions are deep.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
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