How young people behave now is what’s going to be normal in a few years.
Just about everyone is carrying a smartphone these days and we wanted to look at how etiquette is going to evolve. Checking the phone at dinner time was total no-no for some of us. But since almost all of us carry phones around, is that still true?
Continue reading… “How 18 to 29 year olds use their phones totally differently from older people”
Pebble Smartwatch
The adoption of smartphone in the U.S. continues to grow. It now accounts for 57 percent of the mobile market according to comScore. Rollout of in-store mobile payments has been slow and fragmented. Some experts attribute it to infrastructure challenges or hesitancy on behalf of consumers due to security risks. Others suspect the market just isn’t ready.
Continue reading… “Smartwatches are the future of mobile payments”
Men love their single life and experience few of the traditional pressures that once encouraged them to marry.
They want kids, houses and sex. And they want women, too — but not in the form of wives. Not until they’re older. So says the latest study to probe the minds of America’s young men, aged 25 to 33. The study found 10 reasons men won’t commit — from the ease of finding sex partners to the desire to avoid financial risks of divorce.
The crew of Shenzhou 10.
In June, the successful landing of China’s latest manned space mission cast a spotlight on the country’s growing human spaceflight skills as it hones the capabilities needed to build a huge, permanently crewed space station.
Continue reading… “Success of China’s spaceflight sets stage for huge space station”
Circa
There has been a lot of talk in media circles about how the “story” needs to be disrupted, so that news can be rendered in a way that makes more sense for a real-time, digital and mobile age — but so far all we have is more listicles and slideshows, or streams of headlines that mimic a wire service. About the only company that is really trying hard to disrupt the idea of a news story from the inside out is Circa, the news startup co-founded (and funded) by Cheezburger founder Ben Huh, and it is doing so by thinking about news the way programmers think about code, or scientists think about atoms. (Video)
Continue reading… “Reinventing the News – What Will that Look Like?”
Three-person IVF could eliminate debilitating and potentially fatal mitochondrial diseases that are passed on from mother to child.
The UK is set to become the first country to allow the creation of babies using DNA from three people, after the government backed the IVF technique.
Bitcoin
It has been a roller coaster ride for Bitcoin over the past few months. Bitcoin rose in value from $33 at the end of February (then an all-time high) to a peak of nearly $266 on April 10, followed by the crash of as much as 70 percent.
National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.
New York Times: The revelations that telecom carriers have been secretly giving the National Security Agency information about Americans’ phone calls, and that the N.S.A. has been capturing e-mail and other private communications from Internet companies as part of a secret program called Prism, have not enraged most Americans. Lulled, perhaps, by the Obama administration’s claims that these “modest encroachments on privacy” were approved by Congress and by federal judges, public opinion quickly migrated from shock to “meh.”
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Will high-speed tube travel become a reality? A cutting edge company known as ET3 believes the application of magnetic levitation high-speed tube travel will introduce society to an all new era of trade and tourism.
Continue reading… “High speed tube transport could take you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours”
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The overlap between fashion and technology is growing. A recent example comes from fashion designer Ying Gao, who made two dresses that glow and wiggle around when someone glances at them. Yes, the pair of “gaze-activated” dresses love to have an audience.
Continue reading… “Gaze-activated dresses light up and move when you stare at them”
“Worker bee, where were you when I needed you?”
Quote of the Day: “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – Will Rogers
Business in China are swamped with job applications from college graduates but have few jobs to offer.
The headline in he New York Times read “Degrees, but No Guarantees.” However, the story was not about the students graduating from American universities this season. Instead, it was about Chinese grads. Chinese businesses are swamped by job applications from graduating students but have few jobs to offer. As bad as our economy seems for our own grads, their prospects are better than China’s.
Continue reading… “The Chinese skills disconnect may be an opportunity for us”
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