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YouTube has come a long way from its first video showing founder Jawed Karim at the zoo.
This month, YouTube is celebrating its sixth birthday and has released some statistics in honor of the event that cement what we already know — people are really into online video.
Continue reading… “YouTube Users Upload 48 Hours of Video Every Minute”
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can’t read & write,
but those who can’t learn, unlearn & relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
Futurist Thomas Frey: So what is literacy?
The first time I listened to an audio book I thought I was cheating. As a child, reading for me seemed like a lot of work, and my teachers kept piling on more reading assignments, continually feeding into the notion that reading is hard work.
Continue reading… “Next Generation Literacy”
Many baby boomers fear they have not saved enough and will run out of money during their retirement.
Nearly half of baby boomers face so much uncertainty that they fear that their retirement will result in poverty, according to a new study by California-based investment advisers Financial Engines.
Continue reading… “Baby Boomers Face Uncertainty, Fear Outliving Their Retirement Savings”
China has become the fastest-growing market for Airbus’ private jet business.
China’s soaring economy is creating a class of wealthy entrepreneurs who have plenty of money to spend on one of the ultimate symbols of success: the executive jet.
Continue reading… “China’s Private Jet Market Takes Off”
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany haven’t hit 100Tbps yet, but they were able push 26Tbps using just one, lonely laser. The new single-laser fiber-optic speed record was set using a technique called fast Fourier transform that pulses light at an incredibly high rate with data encoded in 325 distinct colors across the spectrum. Can the age of the terabyter be far off?
A government’s advertisement billboard in support of baby girls in Morena, India.
The practice of aborting female fetuses if they don’t yet have a male child is becoming more common and widespread among couples in India, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “Sex-Selective Abortion Becoming More Common and Widespread in India”
MORE POWER!!!
Google and two unfamiliar sounding business partners have received a key first-approval for construction of a $5bn power transmission project, linking the landward power grid to several wind farms to be built off the US Mid-Atlantic coast. (The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has ruled the project can earn a 12.59% return on equity (ROE) – a bit less than the 13.58% requested.)
The partners are Google, Good Energies and Marubeni. The project will connect 6,000MW of offshore wind capacity to grid segments from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland – on down to Virginia. Other permitting approvals are still required but the money and FERC approvals look solid…
Pretty, pretty, fly, fly photographs.
Terence Chang photographed planes taking off from an airport in San Francisco. By using long exposure times, he made the planes’ lights look like tendrils reaching across the sky…
Continue reading… “Long Exposure Photographs of Airplane Takeoffs”
This is what love looks like?
Ah, love – the ultimate in human feelings that conquers all … or is it? Thanks to MRI studies, scientists have dissected the various brain regions that get activated when you feel passionate as well as other types of love…
Continue reading… “Our Brain in Love”
A new breed of worker, equipped with uber-geek data-capturing tools,
are about to usher in a whole new information era
Futurist Thomas Frey: Recently I was preparing for a talk on the future of money, a talk I have given many times in the past, and I became absorbed with one singular thought – the relationship between information and money.
Continue reading… “The Coming of the Terabyters”
Mortgage-only defaulters are less likely to then default later on new car loans or credit cards.
People who have defaulted only on their mortgages and no other debts are not as risky as expected, according to a new study from credit monitor TransUnion.
Continue reading… “People Who Default Only on Their Mortgages May be Safe Credit Risks: Study”
There were declines in all four categories of violent crime in 2010.
Crime levels fell across the board last year, according to the FBI. This extends a multi-year downward trend with a 5.5 percent drop in the number of violent crimes in 2010 and a 2.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes.
Continue reading… “FBI: 5.5% Drop in Violent Crime in 2010”
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