Xbox 720
Most people are pretty happy with the available gadgets on the market. Phones can do almost anything, cars nearly drive themselves and video games have never looked more fantastic.
How much better can it get?
Continue reading… “Top 10 most anticipated tech gadgets for 2013”
Apple iPods
They were launched over a decade ago and were the forefront of the digital revolution. But sales of iPods and other MP3 players in the UK slumped by more than a fifth in 2012 while consumers turned to smartphones as their gadget of choice.
Continue reading… “MP3 players are a dead technology”
“When parents are aware of the bullying, the child’s quality of life is better.”
According to a new survey, nearly one-third of children diagnosed with food allergies are bullied.
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Chickens at Bell & Evans eat feed laced with oregano oil.
Anyone visiting Bell & Evans these days will notice the smell of oregano wafting for Scott Sechler’s office. The smell is so strong that visitors will wonder whether Sechler has quit the production of chicken and gone into the pizza business.
Continue reading… “Chicken farms turn to oregano as a substitute for antibiotics”
15 metropolitan areas have accounted for 41% of all U.S. electric vehicle registrations through the first 10 months of 2012.
The mix of new hybrid and electric vehicles varies as much among the different regions of the United States as does the mix of makes and models, if not more so. The 15 Designated Market Areas (DMAs) with the highest percentage of hybrid powertrains together account for almost 30% of all hybrid registrations nationally, yet these same 15 markets include just 12.5% of all new vehicle registrations. Nine of these 15 hybrid-rich areas have a hybrid penetration greater than 6%, while the national penetration is 2.97%. In San Francisco, the market area with the highest hybrid mix, almost one of every 10 new vehicles sold is a hybrid.
There are more cellphone users in Africa than in North America.
When you are a developing continent you can skip entire stages of technological progress, like going directly from no phones to cellphones without suffering through land lines in between. Africa, for example, now has more mobile subscribers than the United States or Europe, and that means big things for African economies.
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We now have real data to accompany all the anecdotal stories about the ongoing “Series A crunch” for tech startups. CB Insights, a venture capital analysis firm, has released a new seed financing report that digs into some real numbers about the situation.
Continue reading… “More that 1,000 startups are destined to be abandoned at the Series A stage”
The study finds that 0.5% of global data is analyzed, and just half of data requiring security measures is protected.
In 2012, the global data supply reached 2.8 zettabytes (ZB) – or 2.8 trillion GB – but just 0.5% of this is used for analysis, according to the Digital Universe Study.
Continue reading… “Less than 1% of the world’s data is analyzed, over 80% is unprotected: Study”
Shell, and others, see the export of the super-cooled natural gas as a lucrative venture.
While oil development continue to dominate the Royal Dutch Shell portfolio, the energy developer is now making plans to invest heavily in liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Shell, and others, see the export of the super-cooled natural gas as a lucrative venture.
Continue reading… “Companies pave way for natural gas fueled cars and trucks”
New refrigerator factory at GE’s Appliance Park.
General Electric’s storied Appliance Park, in Louisville, Kentucky, for much of the past 10 years, appeared less like a monument to American manufacturing prowess than a memorial to it.
But after years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States.
Continue reading… “The insourcing boom – bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.”
Happiest people live in Latin American countries.
Qatar is the richest county in the world but the world’s happiest people don’t live there. They don’t live in Japan either, the country with the highest life expectancy. With a chart-topping percentage of college graduates in Canada, they didn’t make the top 10 of the happiest people in the world either.
Continue reading… “Latin Americans are happiest people in the world”
Shifts to and from daylight savings time may be linked with small increases in heart attacks in the spring, and small decreases in the fall.
According to a small new study, setting the clock ahead for daylight savings time may set the scene for a small increase in heart attacks the next day, suggesting that sleep-deprivation might be to blame.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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