August 2013 – Page 5

Alternative Transportation, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Martin Aircraft commercial jetpack is scheduled to arrive in 2014

August 20, 2013

Martin Aircraft jetpack

Martin Aircraft claims it will have a jetpack ready for sale starting next year. NPR talked with Martin Aircraft CEO Peter Coker to get the details on the jetpack, which is expected to fly as high as 8,000 feet and hit ground speeds of 35 miles per hour. Unfortunately, it’s a bit big to call a pack and it’s not technically a jet, but let’s not bother ourselves with semantics when the future is at our doorstep. (Video)

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Startups disrupt office space leasing market in New York City

August 20, 2013

Tech startups want loft or converted manufacturing space with big windows, high ceilings, wood or concrete floors and lots of open air.

There’s a tech revolution happening in New York. Hundreds if not thousands of new tech companies have hatched in NYC in the past two years. And many of them are growing rapidly and gobbling up office space.

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Science & Technology News

Mercedes-Benz is integrating Google Glass into its cars

August 20, 2013

Mercedes is testing Google Glass-based navigation systems.

Mercedes-Benz just went public with its initial plans for Google Glass integration, and the results are fascinating. Using Glass’s built-in GPS capabilities, Mercedes is testing a functional door-to-door direction system that guides users to their destinations even after they park the car.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

Solar energy market thriving in the U.S.

August 20, 2013

The solar industry employs nearly 120,000 Americans.

Solar energy is hot. With a foundation of consistent, long-term deployment policies at both the federal and state levels, solar PV in the U.S. is leading an unparalleled price decline on the strength of enduring high demand from U.S. consumers.

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Business, Globalism, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Coca-Cola to open startup accelerators in nine countries around the world

August 19, 2013

Coca-Cola has already launched accelerators in Sydney and San Francisco.

When you think of Coca-Cola do startups come to mind? The beverage giant has plans for accelerator programs in nine cities including Berlin and Istanbul by the end of the year.

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Analysis, government, Internet, Science & Technology News

Google now triple-encrypts all data in Google Cloud Storage

August 19, 2013

Until all pieces of the cloud — and the internet — are known secure, it’s hard to trust that any level of server-side encryption will completely do the job.

You would probably think that the NSA and other shadowy government agencies are the world’s biggest cloud proponents: all your data, all the time, in the cloud, where Prism and XKeyscore can, apparently, access it.

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Internet’s core getting bigger and faster to meet global bandwidth demand

August 19, 2013

The growing popularity of video streaming and the emergence of more and more connected devices means that our need for bandwidth is going to grow.

Thanks to a slew of new technologies, optical networks are getting bigger, beefier and faster. It has now become commonplace to hear about optical networks, mostly in the Internet’s backbone, supporting speeds of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). And to add some context, in 1990 the state of the art was 2.5 Gbps.

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Analysis, App, Business, Education, Games, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Mobile learning game market will grow from $1.5 billion to $2.3 billion by 2017

August 19, 2013

Game-based learning focuses on teaching knowledge to kids or general consumers.

A new research report by Ambient Insight finds that educational games, also known as “serious games,” are going through a renaissance in part because of the acceptance of learning apps on mobile devices.

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Business, Globalism, Latest Trend

Chinese shipping firm begins using new arctic shipping route to Europe

August 19, 2013

The Arctic Ocean shipping route will cut thousands of miles off the journey from China to its key European market. (The Northeast Passage is in blue)

A Chinese merchant ship has made its maiden voyage to Europe through the “Northeast Passage.” This route will help the world’s biggest exporter speed goods to market and is a symbol of Beijing’s strategic ambitions in the Arctic.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Search Engines for the Physical World: The Future of Search Technology in an Increasingly Transparent World

August 18, 2013

Futurist Thomas Frey: Consider the following scenario.

In 2035 a heinous criminal escapes in the city of Dallas, Texas and the local police department acquires a court order to conduct a thorough search of the metro area. Within 15 minutes a fleet of twelve surveillance drones is deployed to begin an ultra high-res flyover.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

One in five American deaths linked to obesity, three times higher than previous estimates

August 18, 2013

Younger generations have been exposed longer to risk factors for obesity.

A new report reveals that the number of deaths caused by obesity in the United States has been vastly underestimated by researchers. Obesity accounts for 18 percent of deaths among black and white Americans between the ages of 40 and 85, according to the study published online Aug. 15 in the American Journal of Public Health. Previous estimates had placed obesity-related deaths at only 5 percent of all U.S. deaths.

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Analysis, Economy, Education, Latest Trend, Money Talk

It all comes down to money when picking a college and major

August 18, 2013

Nearly half of adults are limiting their child’s college choices based on price.

Families are cost-cutting before their kids even apply to schools because of the financial burden of paying for college. According to a new survey by Discover Student Loans, And it’s affecting students’ decisions about not only where to go, but what to study.

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