YouTube’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing, and is up from 13.8 percent a year ago.
According to Sandvine’s latest global internet phenomena report, YouTube is now responsible for 17.1 percent of all residential fixed-line downstream traffic in North America.
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Texting behind the wheel is much more dangerous than driving drunk because of the frequency in which teenagers send texts verses how often they drink.
A new study has found that texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S.
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The new attacks seek to destroy data or to manipulate industrial machinery and take over or shut down the networks that deliver energy or run industrial processes.
Warnings from federal officials, including a vague one issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security, are being prompted by a new wave of cyberattacks that are striking American corporations. Officials say this time the attackers’ aim is not espionage but sabotage, and the source seems to be somewhere in the Middle East.
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The Italian paper notebook maker Moleskine is a stunning anachronism in a business environment that glorifies tech startups and digital business models.
A “retro-innovation” trend is emerging against an accelerating backdrop of datafication. New products and services are designed to connect us with the past in ways that are both nostalgic and interactive.
Continue reading… “‘Retro-innovation’ is the next big thing”
Student debt is second largest source of U.S. household debt, after only mortgages.
Some of the greatest colleges and universities in the world are in the U.S. But with the student debt load at more than $1 trillion and youth unemployment elevated, when assessing the value of a college education, that’s only one part of the story.
Continue reading… “Only 150 of 3500 colleges in the U.S. are worth the investment”
The more data there is, the less any of it can be said to be private.
The European Union introduced privacy legislation in 1995. The legislation defined “personal data” as any information that could identify a person, directly or indirectly. The legislators were apparently thinking of things like documents with an identification number, and they wanted them protected just as if they carried your name.
Continue reading… “Is anonymity mathematically impossible because of big data?”
The New York team proposed that a net-zero park be created within a three-block-long stretch of central median running down Allen Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
One of the biggest challenges faced by people who are associated with building cities is being able to create open space when there seems to be none left. How do they give people in cities public spaces (parks, gardens, squares, even wide tree-lined streets) to gather and room to breathe in our increasingly built-up and built-out urban environments? (Pics)
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Tablet shipments will grow 67 percent this year to 256.5 million.
We will buy more tablets than notebooks for the first time ever this year. But by 2017, we’ll buy six times more tablets than laptops, according to market researcher NPD.
Continue reading… “Tablets to outsell laptops 6 to 1 by 2017”
Futurist Thomas Frey: As a futurist I spend much of my time tracking failure. Why failure? Because they are the unforgiving anchors around which society changes directions.
Continue reading… “The Urgency of Purpose and the Forward Movement of Failure”
The people who get rich are the thinkers who know how to code.
PayScale.com earned significant press attention last week for its list of the College ROI Rankings — an effort to figure out which schools provide the most lifetime earning potential.
Continue reading… “Do software engineers earn more than MBAs?”
Apple’s App Store launched nearly five years ago and they are counting down to the 50 billionth downloaded app. In celebration, the company will reward the person who downloads that app with a $10,000 App Store gift card. In line with this, Apple also revealed its updated lists of all-time top iPhone and iPad apps.
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More people are taking their own lives than ever before in the U.S.
Suicide remains a topic few health professionals want to discuss openly with their patients. It remains a topic avoided even by many mental health professionals. Policy makers see it as a black hole without an obvious solution.
Continue reading… “More people die by suicide than by motor vehicle accidents”
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