Carriers benefit from phone theft.
Theft of mobile phones is a massive and growing problem, accounting for more than 40 percent of all thefts in San Francisco in 2012. But is that a good thing for mobile carriers like AT&T and Verizon?
Google Glass will push wearable technology boom
Wearable technology
Look around any waiting room and you will probably row after row of people hunched over their smartphones. But that common sight may change as tech companies bet that users are so attached to their screens, they’ll start to wear them.
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189 million people use Facebook without ever touching a computer
Facebook has a grand total of 189 million “mobile-only monthly active users (MAUs).
Facebook has for some time been focusing on getting its network into the hands of everyone around the world, be they tech sophisticates in urban centers or nomadic herdsmen in South Sudan.
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The problem with password proliferation (Infographic)
The average person has to remember 15 passwords.
Over half of us say we can’t remember all our passwords. That makes sense, given that almost a third of all companies require their employees to remember six or more of them.
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Google is melding real and virtual worlds with games, apps, and Glass
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Ingress, Google’s virtual reality game
In Google’s global alternative reality game, Ingress. that uses the real world as its gamespace, Ingress says, “the world around you is not what it seems.” And, perhaps, when Google’s semi-independent division Niantic Labs is finished with its mission, we humans won’t be, either.
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13% of calories consumed by Americans comes from ‘added sugars’
Men consumed more sugar per day (an average of 335 calories) than women (239).
Sugar. Honey. Maple syrup. Molasses. High fructose corn syrup. These are all “added sugars,” that you are probably eating and drinking way too much of them.
Abod – tiny houses that can be built in a day
Abod
One billion people of the world’s population lives in informal communities – sometimes known as shantytowns, tent cities or, if you’re really going for the jugular, slums. Doug Sharp, president and chairman of BSB Design, came up with a tiny, inexpensive home for slum dwellers that can be built in less than one day by one family. (Pics)
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Transgenics – next wave of genetically modified crops could ease concerns over ‘Frankenfoods’
Transgenic canola
When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm, says Anastasia Bodnar, “we were promised rocket jet packs” — futuristic, ultra-nutritious crops that would bring exotic produce to the supermarket and help to feed a hungry world.
Three myths about genetically modified crops
GM crop technologies have seen dramatic uptake in the past 20 years.
It can be hard to see where scientific evidence ends and dogma and speculation begin in the debate over genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. In the almost 20 years since they were first commercialized, GM crop technologies have seen dramatic uptake. Advocates say that they have increased agricultural production by more than US$98 billion and saved an estimated 473 million kilograms of pesticides from being sprayed. But critics question their environmental, social and economic impacts.
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IBM makes world’s smallest movie ever
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The world’s smallest movie made by IBM Research has carbon monoxide atoms being moved around on a copper surface with a scanning tunneling microscope. The 250-frame stop-motion film, entitled “A Boy and His Atom,” uses discrete atoms to draw a stick-figure-like boy that bounces on a trampoline and plays catch with an individual atom “ball.”
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Getting around the peak car conumdrum
New breakthroughs in connecting cars to the cloud (and eliminating the need for car ownership) show what a better future for cars might look like.
The global automotive industry is on a run by all accounts. Globally, sales are surging. Advances in hybrids, electric vehicles, and even conventional petrol engines are delivering eye-popping mileage gains.
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Google’s vision of the future
When we read books about the future we should be skeptical. If the authors expect to make money out of it we should be outright incredulous. Eric Schmidt, co-author of this particular look ahead, is the executive chairman of Google and Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas.
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