We should be able to travel everywhere by “pool!”
Quote of the Day: “You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.” – – Drew Carey
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Scientists discover a way to erase bad memories
Researchers have already learned how to erase memories of fear, as well as how to plant false memories.
What if you could walk into a clinic, just like in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and have your bad memories erased? It might sound fantastical, but scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have successfully done something similar in mice.
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European Union plans to end mobile phone roaming charges
The measures will reduce consumer charges and simplify red tape for mobile companies.
As part of a raft of measures to reform the telecoms market, the European Commission is proposing to scrap mobile phone roaming charges across Europe. The Commission described the reforms as “the most ambitious plan in 26 years of telecoms market reform”.
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Gogo to offer 60Mbps in-flight Wi-Fi in 2014
Gogo says download speeds will reach 60 megabits per second.
Gogo’s in-flight Internet service will receive a major upgrade in 2014 to support streaming video and generally offer a better web browsing experience, the company announced today.
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How Long before a Driverless Car Wins the Indianapolis 500?
Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1997, IBM staged a history-making competition between World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov and their own chess-playing computer, Deep Blue.
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China’s Little Brothers cleanse online chatter at Sina Weibo’s censorship hub
The censors, new college graduates, are ambivalent about deleting posts.
On the outskirts of the Chinese city of Tianjin, in a modern office building. rows of censors sit and stare at computer screens. Their mission: delete any post on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, deemed offensive or politically unacceptable.
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Researchers demonstrate new method for harvesting energy from light
Hybrid optoelectronic nanostructures with controlled variation in photoconduction properties.
University of Pennsylvania reasearchers have demonstrated a new mechanism for extracting energy from light, a finding that could improve technologies for generating electricity from solar energy and lead to more efficient optoelectronic devices used in communications.
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Top 10 customer experience trends
Organizations that offer a better customer experience have more customers who say they are willing to buy from them again, according to Forrester. However, if that experience is poor, 89% of consumers are likely to buy from the competition.
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The most and least lucrative college majors
Two years ago, Erin Ford graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. Recruiters came to campus to woo her. She got a paid summer internship, which turned into a full-time job after she graduated. Now, at age 24, she makes $110,000 a year.
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Wealthiest 1% earn biggest share since 1920’s
The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year.
The gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it has been since the Roaring ’20s.
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Amazing timelapse-like video of aging made from family portraits
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The above video, created by filmmaker Anthony Cerniello, is equal parts mind-blowing and unsettling. With help from a couple of animators and a photographer, Cerniello, created the timelapse-like animation that captures the process of aging in a way we’ve never seen before.
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Study finds great fathers have smaller testicles
Study finds evolutionary trade-off between mating prowess and parenting involvement.
Fathers who are more involved in child care have smaller testes, and their brains are also more responsive when looking at photos of their own children, according to research published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1.
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