It might not be enough to to just work out at the gym of you spend much of the rest of the day sitting down. A government survey shows that Americans are more sedentary than ever. That is a problem even among people who exercise regularly.
Wearable electronic sensors printed directly on the skin
Epidermal electronics
Researchers have devised a way to “print” devices directly onto the skin so people can wear them for an extended period of time while performing normal daily activities. Such systems could be used to track health and monitor healing near the skin’s surface, as in the case of surgical wounds.
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Where are the Android users?
800 million Android activations have taken place to date and the rate is about 2 million per day.
Android data is occasionally reported by Google. The last time Google reported Android data was in September 2012. We then learned that activations were running at 1.3 million per day and that a total of 500 million total activations had taken place.
App activity by Facebook users shared more than 1 billion times each day
Platform is getting major results.
Facebook said users share their app activity more than one billion times each day using the social network. These include details like the music they’re listening to (done 40 billion times so far), their reading progress (shared 40 million times), and their fitness updates.
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The value of the internet
The value of a good is much trickier to measure than measuring the cost. Value involves considering a hypothetical question – what would your life be like without that good?
3D printed implant replaces 75% of a man’s skull
The 3-D printing technology is ideal for implants custom-shaped to each patient’s anatomy.
For the first time ever a patient has received an implant made specifically for him using 3D printing technology. the patient, an unidentified man, had 75% of his skull replaced with a 3-D printed implant made by Oxford Performance Materials, a Connecticut company.
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80% of mobile malware on Android phones
Android is the world’s most popular smartphone platform — with nearly 70 percent of the market.
In 2012, nearly 80 percent of all mobile malware found was written for phones running Google’s mobile Android operating system, according to a report from security firm F-Secure.
Most American’s opposed to being killed by a drone: Poll
97% of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “I personally do not want to be killed by a drone.”
The Administration’s controversial drone policy could be headed for a possible setback. According to a new poll conducted by the University of Minnesota a broad majority of Americans are opposed to being killed by a drone strike on U.S. soil.
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Flipping a single molecular switch can make an old brain young
Scientists have long known that the young and old brains are very different.
A single molecular switch, that when flipped, helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the gap between adolescent impressionability and adult stability.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
I always wondered what they were made out of!
Quote of the Day: “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering and it’s all over much too soon.” – Woody Allen
The Economist’s glass-ceiling index
“Glass-ceiling”
You would do well to move to New Zealand if you are a working woman. If New Zealand is too far out of the way you could try one of the Nordic countries. The Economist has compiled its own “glass-ceiling index” to mark International Women’s Day. The index shows where women have the best chance of equal treatment at work.
Tablet mobile traffic surpasses smartphone traffic
These days, if you are surfing the Web from a mobile device odds are you are doing it not from a smartphone, but from some type of tablet. For the first time tablets have surpassed smartphones for percentage of website views, according to a study done by Adobe.
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