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Facebook’s 2013 Year in Review looks back at the stories, trends, and events that were shared most across the social network this last year. The year in review details the most talked about topics globally and for individual countries. It also shows the life events people felt most compelled to share.
Continue reading… “Facebook’s most talked about topics for 2013”
Automation could do away with hundreds of millions of “simple” jobs.
By Gerd Leonhard: Over the next ten years the Web is set to change our lives dramatically. This will also raise questions about the use of personal data and the need to balance new powers with ethics.
Continue reading… “Top 5 ways the technology explosion will impact you”
There are two eye drugs that have been declared equivalently miraculous. Tested side by side in six major trials, both prevent blindness in a common old-age affliction. Biologically, they are cousins. They’re even made by the same company.
Favorite technologies and online behavior of teenagers has a way of predicting the entire country’s favorite technologies and online behavior. From Facebook, to mobile-phone addiction and Snapchat, the habits we dismissed yesterday as silly and childish have a way of going national.
Continue reading… “Are teens really rejecting television?”
Will cloud seeding work to wash the smog out of the air?
China has a severe air pollution problem. Smog has done everything from grounding planes at major airports to closing schools across the country. China’s smog is so dense that it’s even crept over to Japan and across other parts of Asia. China is working on putting measures into place to combat pollution, but they still need a more immediate solution for clearing up the heavy smog. According to the China Meteorological Administration, he country is putting its hopes on artificial rain.
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Where do students have it worst?
Student debt is a national problem that affects all 50 states (51, if you count D.C.). The amount and frequency with which undergraduates borrow varies vastly from state to state, some of which are far better at providing an affordable education than others.
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Piper Jaffray got this when he last surveyed teenagers to learn how they spend money.
Nobody ever said it was easy being a teenager but, this make it look fun. Clothes (including shoes), electronics, movies, music, video games, concerts, accessories, food: That is the life. And together, it makes up about 70 percent of the teen budget.
Continue reading… “Millennials are cheap – a graph that explains the teenage budget”
Who has been hiring and hasn’t?
After the start of the worst six months for the U.S. labor market since the Great Depression five years ago, we learned last week that 203,000 new jobs were created in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. Discussion in the immediate aftermath of the news centered on whether the report marked more of the ho-hum same or a sign that, after three years of puttering along, the economy might finally be preparing for a return to something approaching prosperity.
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How will technology play out in 2014?
Silicon Valley may again need to watch out for Microsoft, cheap smartphones will hit markets, and the Edward Snowden revelations will launch the Year of Encryption. Those are a few predictions from Mark Anderson, founder and publisher of the Strategic News Service newsletter, long a must-read for industry leaders and venture capitalists, and host of Future in Review, an annual gathering for tech leaders, investors, and policymakers The Economist called “the best technology conference in the world.”
Continue reading… “10 technology predictions for 2014”
How far will the FBI will go with its use of malware to spy on people?
The FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now, according to a Washington Post report.
Downtown Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado has become an entrepreneurial powerhouse. The high-tech startup culture has given Boulder a prosperous economy without the help of oil, natural gas, or any monolithic industry.
Continue reading… “Boulder is America’s startup capital”
Obamacare does matters. But all of the debate about it misdirects attention away from massive collateral damage to patients. How massive is the damage?
Continue reading… “Preventable hospital error causes 440,000 deaths per year”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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