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Analysis, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

300 percent increase in mobile video views in 2012

April 11, 2013

The Digital Video Benchmark for the U.S. for 2012 has been released by Adobe. The Digital Index team shows what it learned monitoring video performance throughout the year across digital platforms. Data was compiled from a study from Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, scoring viewing habits and also monitoring ad performance.There was a massive increase in mobile viewership in 2012 according to Adobe’s numbers, though desktop still dominates when it comes to online video.

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Education, Great Videos, Internet, Science & Technology News, Video Games

CodeSpells – a video game that teaches how to program in Java

April 11, 2013

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CodeSpells is an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in the popular Java language. CodeSpells has been developed by University of California, San Diego computer scientists.

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Analysis, Economy, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News

The currency of the future will be your reputation

April 11, 2013

Marina Gorbis, author of The Nature Of The Future: Dispatches From The Socialstructed World, argues we are moving away from the depersonalized world of institutional production toward a new economy built on social connections and rewards–a process she calls socialstructing.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

37 percent of working-age Americans aren’t working, but what are they doing?

April 11, 2013

American adults who have a job (or are looking for a job) has fallen to its lowest point since 1979, hovering around 63 percent. Thirty-seven percent of working-age Americans aren’t working. But, what are they doing? Bloomberg Businessweek gives us a snapshot of 2013 with this amazing infographic above.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The future of innovation is in ideas, not products

April 10, 2013

The new generation of innovators knows that the greatest innovations are the ones you can’t see.

In Asia, there is a shift underway of self-made entrepreneurs. In the past 50 years, Asian commerce was dominated by larger-than-life conglomerate builders gathering assets under unofficial government protection. But this is changing. A new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging, outthinking the old guard.

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Alternative Transportation, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Urbee II – 3D printed car drives toward mass production

April 10, 2013

Urbee

While major car manufacturers are exploring 3D printing for prototyping car parts, it’s inevitable that a road-worthy 3D printed car is not too far into the future. Thanks to KOR EcoLogic the future of 3D printed cars could arrive soon. KorEcoLogic has teamed with Stratasys’s RedEye On Demand 3D printing business unit to fabricate a lightweight electric car that could take to the streets in about two years.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

Where in America women live the longest

April 10, 2013

We totally get why women are living long, happy lives in Hawaii.

It should not be a surprise to anyone that you’re less likely to be depressed there than anywhere else in America when you live in a tropical island paradise like Hawaii.

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Photo Perspectives, Robots, Science & Technology News

Wave Glider SV3 – world’s first wave and solar powered unmanned ocean robot

April 10, 2013

Wave Glider SV3

Liquid Robotics has announced the Wave Glider SV3, what it calls the worldʼs first hybrid wave and solar propelled unmanned ocean robot. These super-smart robots have been revamped with Wi-Fi and cellular communications and are primed to compete in a series of industries, and might eventually create a couple new ones while they’re at it. (Pics)

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

The mysterious vanishing workforce in America

April 10, 2013

The fewer workers, the less growth produced.

In the United States millions of people have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The PC industry is dying

April 9, 2013

The PC industry is dying, so let’s move on.

The market-research firm, Gartner, has finally come out and said it: The PC market is dying. Except it hasn’t said that, quite. But it is, and saying so is really important.

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Robots, Science & Technology News

Are algorithms better storytellers than human journalists?

April 9, 2013

Articles don’t read like robots wrote them.

Narrative Science has developed an algorithm that produces a computer-written news story about every 30 seconds, Wired reports. The articles run on the websites of respected publishers like Forbes, as well as other Internet media powers (many of which are keeping their identities private).

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Wikiworld – Is this the future of investigative journalism?

April 9, 2013

Julian Assange’s website WikiLeaks set a ‘new normal’ for investigative journalism in the mainstream press.

You may be sweating a little bit this week if you are a rooked corporate mogul, property tycoon or prominent politician. Your millions of secret tax-evading dollars are safe in offshore accounts for the moment. But now, a lot more people know exactly where your money is and just how much you’ve been hiding.

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