Extreme Closeup of a Graphene Nanotube Chip
I.B.M. scientists are reporting progress in a chip making technology that is likely to ensure the shrinking of the size of the basic digital switch at the heart of modern microchips for more than another decade.
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If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame on you — and go change them now. Bad dog! Continue reading… “The 25 Worst Passwords of 2012”
Study reveals gender bias with female job applicants.
A new study in the U.S. has found that researchers assessing the employability of early-career scientists subconsciously favour male students over females. The bias, which was seen to exist in both male and female physicists and was also exhibited by chemists and biologists, is thought to be a contributing factor towards the underrepresentation of women in physics.
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China announced its latest growth figures on Thursday. The speed of growth attracted most of the attention, but the source of growth is perhaps more striking. At a press conference, the National Bureau of Statistics pointed out that in the first three quarters of this year consumption* contributed over half (55%) of China’s growth, exceeding the contribution from investment. If that pattern holds, China’s growth this year will not be investment-led (let alone export-led), but consumption-led.**
Continue reading… “Consumer-led growth in China”
The world of events and in-person marketing is evolving.
Audiences today expect more than education and entertainment; they expect participation at an event. Today’s top events take advantage of technology as a platform for audience engagement. Having produced and attended a number of customer conferences and trade shows this year, I’ve noticed some very clear trends in how technology is blurring the gap between the presenters and attendees. Here are some examples.
Continue reading… “Top 4 event trends you need to know about”
Only about one in 10 consumers participating in debt-settlement programs actually ends up debt-free in the promised period of time.
Debt settlement companies claim that they can significantly reduce someones debt for just pennies on the dollar. And desperate debtors are looking for a quick fix to a problem that they have spent years creating. They want the phone calls and letters to stop. They want to get rid of the stress they are experiencing.
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Startup company GestSure uses Kinect for Windows to allow surgeons to look through medical images without having to touch unsterile equipment.
Most of the talk about Microsoft this fall will be about its new operating system, Windows 8. But the company is working hard on a long-term effort to reinvent the we interact with existing computers with its new Surface tablet. The company wants to make it as common to wave your arms at or speak to a computer as it is to reach for a mouse or touch screen today.
Continue reading… “Kinect for Windows – Microsofts plan to bring about the era of gesture control”
Futurist Thomas Frey: In July 2011, as a cost cutting measure, the U.S. Postal Service put together a list of 3,700 post offices that it wanted to close.
The Ben Venue facility in Bedford, Ohio has spent more than $300 million to upgrade the plant.
Quality lapses as big drug companies show that contamination and shoddy practices go well beyond the loosely regulated compounding pharmacies that have attracted attention because of their link to an outbreak of meningitis..
Weevils have been found floating in vials of heparin as well as morphine cartridges that contain up to twice the labeled dose. There are manufacturing plants with rusty tools, mold in production areas and — in one memorable case — a barrel of urine.
Continue reading… “Quality lapses at big drug manufacturing plants lead to shortages and danger”
Using a mobile phone as a payment device.
In the U.S. proximity mobile payments are not yet very popular. It is estimated that such point-of-sale payments using a mobile phone as a payment device, whether via near-field communications or other contactless technology, will total just $640 million this year. But that’s an increase of 283% over last year’s even smaller base, and a number that will rise a further 234% by the end of next year.
Continue reading… “By 2016 proximity mobile payments will explode in the U.S.”
The crash at Wenzhou.
Train passengers hurried across Beijing South Station at the final call to board bullet train D301, heading south on the world’s largest, fastest, and newest high-speed railway, the Harmony Express on the morning of July 23, 2011. It was bound for Fuzhou, fourteen hundred miles away.
Continue reading… “The disaster that exposed the corruption of China’s economic boom”
Futurist Thomas Frey: When Charles Corry walked onto the stage of the Shark Tank-like Piranha Pit at Saturday’s DaVinci Inventor Showcase, his iExpander product was still $6,000 away from making the goal of $125,000 on Kickstarter. As of this morning, he has not only passed his goal, now exceeding $140,000, but still has 6 more days to go.
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