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

Moms lead trend in mobile shopping

Moms tend to lead shopping and mobile trends.

More shoppers are becoming increasingly comfortable using the smartphone or tablet to browse retailer offerings, look for discounts and compare products. For moms especially, who tend to lead shopping and mobile trends, the use of these smart devices may have reached the tipping point: Mobile has become more than a nice accessory to augment the shopping process; it has become an essential stop in the path to purchase.

 

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

Human birth rate declines, people turn to pets

Colorado has more than 1.1 million dogs and not quite 350,000 children under 5 years old.

Don’t worry about the “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” Earth is far more likely to become the “Orb of the Dogs” demographically,  as human fertility rates plummet for a slew of reasons, including canines substituting for kids in many households.

 

 

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend

17% of smart, poor kids apply to the wrong colleges

The majority of high-achieving kids from low-income backgrounds fail to apply to any selective colleges.

Middle-class American high-school seniors with good grades go through a familiar ritual of the college application process each year. The seniors file a bunch of applications.  They submit test scores, grades, essays, and letters of recommendation. They apply to a “reach” school or two and a “safety” school or two along with some in the middle. The idea is to see where you can get in and then decide where you want to go after researching both the quality of the schools on offer and the actual financial cost of attending. This system is a bit stressful and annoying, but basically it works. Students get matched with schools that roughly suit their level of academic preparation and people have a chance to shop around a bit for the myriad forms of financial aid that make college attendance feasible.

Analysis, Entertainment, Latest Trend

The death of the R-rated action movie

The dependable mid-budget, R-rated action movies that Hollywood once relied on are now anything but dependable.

Hollywood has had a series of tent-pole and more modestly budgeted movies that have collapsed at the box office this winter. Revenue and attendance are both down 15 percent from the same period last year, reports the Hollywood Reporter.  The industry got some surprise relief this weekend from Oz the Great and Powerful despite middling reviews. It’s also one of the few big new movies of 2013 so far clearly marketed toward kids. If you were to look at the state of the box office in the past few months, you might come away with two impressions: One, the dependable mid-budget, R-rated action movies that Hollywood once relied on are now anything but dependable. And two, Hollywood is basically just for kids.

 

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Wearable electronic sensors printed directly on the skin

Epidermal electronics

Researchers have devised a way to “print” devices directly onto the skin so people can wear them for an extended period of time while performing normal daily activities. Such systems could be used to track health and monitor healing near the skin’s surface, as in the case of surgical wounds.

 

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Where are the Android users?

800 million Android activations have taken place to date and the rate is about 2 million per day.

Android data is occasionally reported by Google.  The last time Google reported Android data was in September 2012.  We then learned that activations were running at 1.3 million per day and that a total of 500 million total activations had taken place.

 

 

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

App activity by Facebook users shared more than 1 billion times each day

Platform is getting major results.

Facebook said users share their app activity more than one billion times each day using the social network. These include details like the music they’re listening to (done 40 billion times so far), their reading progress (shared 40 million times), and their fitness updates.

 

 

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Analysis, Science & Technology News, Weapons

Most American’s opposed to being killed by a drone: Poll

97% of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “I personally do not want to be killed by a drone.”

The Administration’s controversial drone policy could be headed for a possible setback.  According to a new poll conducted by the University of Minnesota a broad majority of Americans are opposed to being killed by a drone strike on U.S. soil.

 

 

 

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Analysis, Brain, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Flipping a single molecular switch can make an old brain young

Scientists have long known that the young and old brains are very different.

A single molecular switch, that when flipped, helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the gap between adolescent impressionability and adult stability.

 

 

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