Infographic about Apple’s App Store
On Tuesday Apple hit an unofficial landmark. Apple has now approved 500,000 apps for its App Store, according to an infographic from app-search app Chomp, publisher Chillingo and review site 148Apps.
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Being overweight or obese is a well-known risk factor for high blood pressure.
Expanding waistlines and higher body mass index of young adults are causing unexpected problems, including an increase in diabetes, kidney disease and even arthritis say federal health officials.
Continue reading… “Almost 1 in 5 Young Adults in the U.S. Has High Blood Pressure”
All electric cars could have trouble getting a foothold in the U.S.
According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll nearly six of 10 Americans — 57% — say they won’t buy an all-electric car no matter the price of gas.
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YouTube has come a long way from its first video showing founder Jawed Karim at the zoo.
This month, YouTube is celebrating its sixth birthday and has released some statistics in honor of the event that cement what we already know — people are really into online video.
Continue reading… “YouTube Users Upload 48 Hours of Video Every Minute”
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can’t read & write,
but those who can’t learn, unlearn & relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
Futurist Thomas Frey: So what is literacy?
The first time I listened to an audio book I thought I was cheating. As a child, reading for me seemed like a lot of work, and my teachers kept piling on more reading assignments, continually feeding into the notion that reading is hard work.
Many baby boomers fear they have not saved enough and will run out of money during their retirement.
Nearly half of baby boomers face so much uncertainty that they fear that their retirement will result in poverty, according to a new study by California-based investment advisers Financial Engines.
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China has become the fastest-growing market for Airbus’ private jet business.
China’s soaring economy is creating a class of wealthy entrepreneurs who have plenty of money to spend on one of the ultimate symbols of success: the executive jet.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany haven’t hit 100Tbps yet, but they were able push 26Tbps using just one, lonely laser. The new single-laser fiber-optic speed record was set using a technique called fast Fourier transform that pulses light at an incredibly high rate with data encoded in 325 distinct colors across the spectrum. Can the age of the terabyter be far off?
A government’s advertisement billboard in support of baby girls in Morena, India.
The practice of aborting female fetuses if they don’t yet have a male child is becoming more common and widespread among couples in India, according to a new study.
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MORE POWER!!!
Google and two unfamiliar sounding business partners have received a key first-approval for construction of a $5bn power transmission project, linking the landward power grid to several wind farms to be built off the US Mid-Atlantic coast. (The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has ruled the project can earn a 12.59% return on equity (ROE) – a bit less than the 13.58% requested.)
The partners are Google, Good Energies and Marubeni. The project will connect 6,000MW of offshore wind capacity to grid segments from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland – on down to Virginia. Other permitting approvals are still required but the money and FERC approvals look solid…
Pretty, pretty, fly, fly photographs.
Terence Chang photographed planes taking off from an airport in San Francisco. By using long exposure times, he made the planes’ lights look like tendrils reaching across the sky…
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This is what love looks like?
Ah, love – the ultimate in human feelings that conquers all … or is it? Thanks to MRI studies, scientists have dissected the various brain regions that get activated when you feel passionate as well as other types of love…
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
Learn More about this exciting program.