An electric car charging station.
Electric cars and hybrid cars have gone pretty mainstream. But is the charging infrastructure keeping pace? Especially since there are lots of proposals for how we could transition away from the gas station model.
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66 percent of dating service users have gone on a date with someone.
The Pew Research Center released a report this week on online dating and relationships. The report found that one in 10 Americans have used an online dating site or mobile dating app. (Infographic)
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Tweeting about TV is a large and growing phenomenon.
The first Nielsen-Twitter TV ratings report has just been released by Nielsen, showing that there has been a 38 percent increase in tweets about TV in the US over the last year — from 190 million in Q2 2012 to 263 million in Q2 2013. The number of Twitter TV authors in the US has also risen 24 percent, from 15 million to 19 million in the same period. (Infographic)
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Over 30% of 2013 US electric car and plug-in hybrid sales have occurred in California.
There is a pretty interesting infographic on who drives electric cars that has been published by the Wall Street Journal. The infographic highlights several interesting facts on who is driving electric cars.
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Running a startup in Zurich versus San Francisco can cost you a whole person’s salary more. Hiring a developer in Mumbai is 15 percent cheaper than if you were hiring one in Sydney.
Continue reading… “What it costs to run a startup in 8 major cities around the world: Infographic”
Internship compensation – does it pay?
Unpaid internships are a hot topic right now in light of the recent slew of compensation-based class action lawsuits. And with only 36.9% of companies still offering interns less that minimum wage or no compensation at all, it’s clear that relying upon unpaid interns is more damaging than many employers assume. (Infographic)
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That well-known philosopher Yogi Berra once said: “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi, you are so right. The future ain’t ever going to be what it used to be. But isn’t it fun to peer into the future?
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Even employees who are employed in large corporations are encouraged to be “intrapreneurs.”
Entrepreneurs used to be thought of as the renegade cowboys out in Silicon Valley. Now it seems you have to be an entrepreneur just to get and hold a job.
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Titan is a supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in a variety of science projects.
When we buy a new computer we think at some point that it must be a supercomputer, at least when you compare it to the computer you had prior to the new one. it seems our computers are getting slower, but that is not really the case. What happens is that the software we use on it gets more powerful, which makes the computer struggle more. That’s when we all wish we had access to one of the many supercomputers currently being constructed throughout the world.
Continue reading… “World’s top 10 fastest supercomputers of 2013 (Infographic)”
In 2009, over 4 million students were taking some sort of course online.
The insertion of the internet into our daily lives sure has changed the landscape of how distance learning has evolved and is consumed, there was certainly a lot of history that preceded it. The infographic below takes a look at the strides distance learning has made over the years and really highlights how the internet has really helped to expand the offerings to many more people.
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We’re addicted to our phones.
Chances are you’re addicted to your mobile device if you are reading this article. The question is, just how addicted are you? Forty percent of iPhone users would rather not bathe than give up their precious mobile devices, according to research compiled by gadget insurance service Protect Your Bubble. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “84% of Americans say they couldn’t go a single day without their smartphone”
Have you ever thought about your activity on the internet at any given moment? You could very easily be jumping from Twitter to Facebook, listening to Spotify, shooting off an email, downloading a movie, reading a news site, Googling background info to better understand aforementioned news site, and that’s just on a slow day. Now extrapolate that out to the billions of people online every minute of every day. (Infographic)
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