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Current Event in Technology**Instructions:** Your assignment today is to research and summarize one article about issues in our nation, our state, or our town dealing with technology using the Internet. When you perform a search and summarize, you must be careful to write it in your own words.

For the current event, you need to follow these steps:
 * Include the name of the article.
 * List the author's name
 * Create a link with the articles URL for the chosen current event article.
 * Write a short summary (6-7 sentences minimum) of what you learned from the article.
 * Answer all of the required questions in detail.
 * Complete sentences are required for your answers.
 * Make sure that your answers are in a different (easy to read) color font than the questions.

Article - Current Event Article Title - New 'Hobbit' film makes some moviegoers sick Author - Ann Oldenburg URL (create a link) - []

Summarize your article. At the New Zealand premiere of the 'Hobbit', some people in the audience reported that the high-speed cinematography was causing sickness. One fan said that, "My eyes cannot take everything in, it's dizzying, now I have a migraine." Another fan tweeted, "I felt loving the movie but feeling sick." Another described the motion sickness like being on a roller coaster, "You have to hold your stomach down and let your eyes pop at first to adjust. This is not for wimps." Ian McKellan described the probable causes for the headaches, "The normal way we see a movie is 24 frames per second. The way the human eye sees is 60 frames per second. The movie is halfway between at 48 frames." X-Men director Brian Singer saw the movie and didn't have any problem except of being jealous at the work.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? The most interesting part of this article for me was learning that people really enjoyed the movie even though they got migraines from watching it.

How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative? Since I'm going to the Hobbit this Saturday I hope that this isn't too negative and I can enjoy the cinematography without getting a headache or anything close to that.

Article - Current Event  Article Title - Oh My Tech! Hollywood Making Downloading Hard Author - Vince Horiuchi URL (create a link) - []

Summarize your article. Hollywood studios wants you to make sure you buy their films over and over and over again making downloading more difficult. Hollywood Studios has introduced a fairly new streaming service called "Ultraviolet." It allows you to enter a code on a website or a laptop or even a mobile device so that you can watch the digital version of the movie. Ultraviolet was made for people to access movies on the go without illegally making copies from the disc. You do pay extra, but its a customer-friendly system. However, to prevent privacy they've enforced some restrictions like giving a code away to someone else as well as selling the code. In result, if someone wanted to buy a movie for a friend, unfortunately they would have to buy the whole movie on DVD or blu-ray with the code. This has turned out to make downloading other programs harder.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? The most interesting part of this article was finding out that you can just use a code and then transport that to a laptop or iPhone and then you can watch the whole digital version of the movie. How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative? I believe this is more positive than negative because it does have its downfalls (like the downloading speeds) but this is just the beginning to these kind of programs, so that could definitely improve. The idea of using ultraviolet is genius in my opinion because you are able to watch a lot more movies on the go without doing it illegally.