| To get the kid a smartphone, that is the question: Michelle Quinn writes about how she and her family have fared a year after her teen son was given a smartphone. And Troy Wolverton says his son isn't getting one just yet. Instagram could be making some of its 300 million users depressed, according to a recent psychological study that examined the emotional toll of obsessing over the photo-sharing social network and following too many strangers. This is not exactly the promised future of robotics, which is increasingly being applied to help humans with manufacturing, health care, humanitarian aid and getting around. But Gui Cavalcanti and Matt Oehrlein, 29-year-old co-founders of Berkeley-based MegaBots, are hoping to fulfill another human desire: ferocious, gladiator-style entertainment. Santa Clara County hit its highest job totals in 14 years and the East Bay set a record for total jobs as the Bay Area enjoyed another powerful employment surge — 24,000 jobs — in July, according to a report from the state's Employment Development Department released Friday. Larry Magid writes: Verizon and Epson are in very different businesses, but both just did the unthinkable by changing the way they charge for their products. Q&A: Joelle Emerson, CEO of Paradigm, a company that is helping more than a dozen tech companies make their workforce more diverse.
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