The average loan-holding 2014 college graduate will have to pay back $33,000.
The class of 2014 deserves our congratulations, but not for graduating — though that’s nice, too — but for earning one of the more dubious distinctions in recent memory: You’ve officially been named “the most indebted class ever.”
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Scientists discovered a technique that should produce electrons and positrons by colliding two sets of super-energetic photons.
For a long time, scientists have theorized that you can create matter from light by colliding photons. Proving that theory has been a different story — you need the right high-energy particles to even think of trying. However, it looks like that once-impossible dream is close to becoming reality.
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At TED2014, the speakers and attendees were asked to riff off the conference’s theme (“The Next Chapter”) and tell them what might radically change society, life, technology and so on in the next 30 years. The answers may surprise you.
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The Ryno
The Ryno is an all-electric, self-balancing, one-wheeled personal mobility device that uses a combination of gyroscope sensors and accelerometers to balance itself. The microcycle has a single 25-inch motorcycle tire and reaches speeds up to 10 mph.
Smartphones, which are constantly seeking and retrieving data, don’t make sense without the cloud, and any business that isn’t racing to push its data and software into someone else’s data center is setting itself up for disruption by a competitor who is.
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Lazy people are the best customers.
The ultimate customers are lazy, anti-social people. To be assured of success today, create a service that appeals to people just active enough to push a button but too lazy to check their bank statements.
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The words ‘chemical’ and ‘poison’ have become interchangeable in the popular consciousness. As a result the whole subject of chemistry has become tainted with unpleasant connotations.
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An Enphase Micro-Inverter
Google’s Little Box Challenge, Google will be offering a $1 million prize for inventing much smaller solar power inverters. The challenge will be launched this summer, so currently few details have been released to the public.
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Today’s customers and retailers are getting serious about how they implement and manage the customer experience.
Tesla
In California, Tesla has knocked off Toyota as the biggest auto employer in the state. Tesla employs over 6,000 people to the Japanese company’s 5,300. That lead is only likely to grow, as the EV manufacturer prepares to add another 500 jobs by the end of the year, and as Toyota begins its relocation to its new North American headquarters in Texas. The news comes barely a week after the company announced a $50 million loss during the first quarter of 2014.
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Members of Avaaz, a global advocacy group.
When the news hit Reddit that the Federal Communications Commissions’ plans to consider paid priority on the Internet, the question wasn’t so much whether the move was a good idea, it was “How do I best tell my elected representative that this is a horrible idea?”
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Internet of Things start in the home.
The Internet of Things is poised to be the next wave of technology to wash over Silicon Valley and it may create a $290 billion global market by 2017, building on past tech waves like mobile, software, personal computers and semiconductors.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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