The cellphone theft problem is threatening to get out of control.
There is an unwelcome, but predictable, side effect to the soaring popularity of smartphones: an epidemic of smartphone thefts.
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Teens are not rushing to get a driver’s license.
Getting a drivers license has been as much a rite of passage as the high school prom, but a new study suggests that young Americans are no longer rushing to get a driver’s license the moment they are eligible – and the Internet may be a major reason for that delay.
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Biggest porn site on the internet gets over four billion hits a month.
‘The internet is for porn,’ is the title of a song on hit musical Avenue Q. And it turns out the lyricists had touched on a home truth, because researchers have discovered that a staggering 30 per cent of all internet traffic is pornography.
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Kids born to obese moms are more likely to diagnosed with autism.
Kids born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer moms according to a new study of moms and children in California.
Continue reading… “Study: Mom’s obesity linked to kids’ autism and development”
Giant gypsum crystals up to 11 meters long in the Cave of Crystals, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Gypsum is a naturally occurring mineral which is often used in industrial processes and which in nature, if left alone for thousands of years, can grow into huge translucent, towering and eerie, crystals more than 10 metres tall. These are famed for their beauty in places such as the Cave of Crystals in Mexico. Nevertheless, the formation of gypsum has until now been largely unexplored…
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The new invention could make waste water from toilets safe to drink.
Billionaire, Bill Gates, is funding a new invention that aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water, a British nanotechnology expert says.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: All the way back in March of 2004, working in his laboratory at the University of Southern California in San Diego, Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, was working with a new process he had invented called Contour Crafting to construct the world’s first 3D printed wall.
His goal was to use the technology for rapid home construction as a way to rebuild after natural disasters, like the devastating earthquakes that had recently occurred in his home country of Iran.
While we have still not seen our first “printed home” just yet, that will be coming very soon. Perhaps within a year. Commercial buildings will soon follow.
For an industry firmly entrenched in working with nails and screws, the prospects of replacing saws and hammers with giant printing machines seems frightening. But getting beyond this hesitancy lies the biggest construction boom in all history.
Here’s why I think this will happen.
Continue reading… “Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will bring to Our Future”
Multitouch floor.
The smart home of the future will need a way to sense who its residents are and what they’re doing. One way to do so may be through the floor.
Continue reading… “A multitouch floor could one day detect your heart attack”
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Controversial genomics scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter said last week at a conference on the future of energy at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. that biofuels made from algae that will be able to scale, and compete with oil, will have to be synthesized and will not come from nature.Venter said in an interview, “It’s pretty obvious that there’s nothing in the natural world to make the levels that are needed,” and he pointed to algae oil yield volumes needing approximately 20,000 gallons per acre equivalent of algae.
Continue reading… “Algae fuel that can replace oil will not come from nature”
The first strips of muscle have been grown in a project to develop a new way to produce meat.
Scientists in the Netherlands have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year.
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21% of Americans have read an e-book.
Twenty-one percent of Americans have read an e-book in the last year as of February, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That’s up from 17% in December.
Continue reading… “Is the printed book dead?”
A robot from the future is made entirely of liquid metal in the film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.”
A revolutionary new armor relies on a liquid that hardens when something hits it, promising unprecedented protection while letting soldiers move freely, unrestricted by bulk and weight.
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