Disruptive Technologies
Top 10 Disruptive Inventions that have changed our lifestyle as follows:
- Internet: Everything is documented on the internet
- Flight: Getting to one continent to another in few hours rather than weeks or months
- Nuclear Fission: Teeny tiny atom of uranium produces energy of unimaginable magnitude.
- Electricity: Power that is instant and easy to access
- The Microprocessor: Keep getting smaller and more powerful
- X-rays: Illuminating the diseases and disorders that lie beneath a person’s skin.
- Rubber: 70% of world’s rubber supply is used by the automotive industries.
- Iron Smelting: Made settlements more independent.
- Gun Powder: Mixture that’s been used into a weapon; changed world’s peace.
- The Magnetic Stripe Card: One of the most universal technologies on earth.
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Stanford University Teaches Facebook Psychology
A group of students at Stanford University have turned their attention towards a unique course that blends popular culture with the more time-worn principles of psychology. The Psychology of Facebook is the brainchild of Professor B J Fogg, a pioneering persuasion psychologist. He stresses that, Facebook’s unbridled success lies in getting users to to do the work for them with friends persuading friends to post pictures, comments, or upload applications.
Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago
Evidence found in DNA suggests that humans came close to extinction roughly 70 000 years ago. The human population at that time may have shrunk as low as 2,000. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa. Today, more than 6.6 billion people inhabit the globe.
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Google tackles child porn
Google engineers have adapted a software program to help track child sex predators. The program uses pattern recognition to enable analysts to sort and identify files containing child sex abuse. It was originally developed to block copyrighted videos on the company’s YouTube division.The program will be used by National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to search their systems more quickly and easily as they try to sort and identify files that contain images of child sex abuse victims..
No more Hotmail Access via Outlook Express
Microsoft announced last week that it will turn off access to its Web-based hotmail service from the desktop e-mail software Outlook Express at the end of June. Users will still be able to use Outlook, to read their Hotmail messages offline. Outlook Express users who want to continue to access their Hotmail accounts offline after June 30 can download Microsoft’s free Windows Live Mail software.
Bullying linked to depression, anxiety in adults
In a study of 210 college students, University of Florida researchers discovered a link between what psychologists call relational victimization in adolescence and depression and anxiety in early adulthood. There is no gender difference in the link between this type of bullying and depression. Rather than threatening a child with physical violence, usually bullies target a child’s social status and relationships by shunning them, excluding them from social activities or spreading rumors. Currently, there are few prevention or intervention programs that focus specifically on relational victimization, in part because it’s tougher to pinpoint and stop.
Google, most powerful global brand
Market research firm Millward Brown Optimor produced the rankings based on interviews with more than a million consumers worldwide. For the third year in a row Google grabbed the top spot with a $86 billion brand value. General Electric and Microsoft, came in second and third places respectively. Of the top 100 most powerful brands, 28 of them were technology related, including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Intel, Dell, and BlackBerry.
Corporations caught spying on GreenPeace
S2i, a private security firm that was hired by several large corporations, including Kraft Foods and Dow Chemical, to spy on various environmental groups, Greenpeace,the National Environmental Trust and the Environmental Working Group was exposed. The firm, built and managed by former Secret Service Officers, kept close tabs on these organizations for several years. One of the tactics employed by the spy firm is to plant undercover operatives within groups.
Pennsylvania Primary Results,Hillary Wins
Based on exit polls and early voting tallies,New York Senator Hillary Clinton has taken victory in the Pennsylvania primary results over rival Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Early voting tallies give Clinton a 53 percent to 47 percent lead over Obama. Record numbers of voters turned out for the Pennsylvania Democratic primary.
Georgian Spy plane shot down over Abkhazia
Georgian air force released a video that it says shows a twin-tailed Russian MiG-29 shooting down a Georgian unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, over the region of Abkhazia. Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia in 1994. But not recognized by the international community.
Video Footage released by Georgia:
UFO in phoenix?
Several Phonenix residents reported seeing strange red lights in the sky on Monday night and the cause of the lights remains a mystery. The lights were moving to the east and they disappeared one by one. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said that air traffic controllers at Sky Harbor Airport also witnessed the lights, but they do not know the cause. There was a similar incident happened in Phoenix on March 13, 1997.
Here is video footage by a local resident:
Hear Neanderthal Speaking
Researchers have modeled the hominids’ larynx to replicate the possible sounds they would have made. The work, is based on Neanderthal fossils found in France. Neanderthals are our closest extinct ancestors and lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for around 170,000 years, then died out some 28,000 years.
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