More phones were lost in Philadelphia than any other U.S. city.
About $30 billion worth of mobile phones were lost by Americans in 2011, says a new industry report.
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Locator chips keep kids from cutting school
Twenty thousand students in 25 of Vitoria da Conquista’s 213 public schools started using T-shirts with chips.
In a northeastern Brazilian city, grade-school student are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they’re cutting classes, the city’s education secretary said Thursday.
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Only half of first marriages last 20 years: CDC
Women have a 52 percent chance that a first marriage would survive for 20 years, while men have a 56% chance.
The divorce rate has remained high even though Americans are marrying older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
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Smoking related deaths triple in the past decade
A billion people will die from tobacco use and exposure this century – one person every six seconds.
Deaths related to tobacco use have nearly tripled in the past decade and big tobacco firms are undermining public efforts that could save millions, a report led by the health campaign group the World Lung Foundation (WLF) said on Wednesday.
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Sweden goes cashless, the world will follow
Sweden pointing the way to an almost cash-free economy.
There are so many things to dislike about analog money. Cash and coins are unwieldy. They’re heavy. They’re dirty. They leave no automatic record of the financial transactions that are made with them.
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Social media role in police investigations growing
88 percent of law enforcement agencies use social media to investigate crimes.
Cincinnati police investigators stumbled upon an online video last year showing an act of armed robbery, helpfully taped by the perpetrators themselves. The city’s Real Time Crime Center analysts found the footage on a Facebook page while using the popular social-media site to investigate another crime. The suspects were eventually arrested.
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27 percent of people in the U.S. get their news using mobile devices
“News is becoming a more important and pervasive part of people’s lives.”
The guy who bumped into you on the street with his eyes glued to his smartphone may just as likely be reading a news story as sending a text message. A new report says 27 percent of Americans now get their news using mobile devices, something that’s helping to increase news consumption nationally, despite a continuing decline in subscribers to print publications.
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More words dropped and fewer words added to languages in digital age: Study
Words are being dropped from languages faster and new ones added at a slower rate.
Adding new words or dropping old ones to an existing language is something people have always done. As new things or ideas are discovered, new words crop up to describe them. But now, in the digital age, that process appears to be slowing despite the increased pace of new things arriving on the scene.
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Middle class in Mexico becoming its majority
Customers look at laptops at a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City.
The middle class is fast becoming the majority in Mexico, breaking down the rich-poor divide in a profound demographic transformation that has far-reaching implications here and in the United States.
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Glow in the dark sushi the latest food craze to hit America
The genetically modified fish were originally bred to help detect environmental pollutants.
The latest must try food craze to hit America is sushi that glows in the dark. The sushi was inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video showing how to make the glowing sushi has become a huge hit online. (Pics and video)
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Cinnamon Challenge YouTube craze could be harmful to your health, warn health experts
Health experts are cautioning people not to attempt a dare that is catching on due to a viral video.
Don’t expect any great culinary creation when your kids go digging into the spice drawer. They may be looking for the cinnamon, which they want to attempt to swallow, without water.
Most college students in the U.S. prefer digital over print when reading
58% of college students prefer digital over print for textbook reading.
According to a new survey from the Pearson Foundation, the majority of U.S. college students now prefer digital formats whether they’re reading textbooks or “fun” books.
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