Wolfram Alpha the Knowledge Engine has introduced a new tool that analyses your Facebook data and gives a detailed report ranging from the relationship statutes of your friends to top commentators and even the eldest and youngest one of your friends.
The world has paid for the luxury of Angry Birds with its health and looks: a new report finds a strong link between technological advancement and expanding waistlines. According to economic think tank, The Milken Institute, a country the size of America will add 4.2 million Spanx-wearing citizens for a 10% growth in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). “The main culprit is the knowledge-based society,” states the report, “more processed foods, a greater amount of ‘screen’ time (watching TV, using computers, playing video games, etc.), decreased energy expenditure, and/or higher consumption of snack foods have all played a role.”
The age of digital media, internet technology, and worldwide e-commerce, is upon us, and what that really means is that, for most of us, our lives are now almost completely entwined with the internet in some way or another, whether it is for personal use, social use, business, use or otherwise. With so much of our daily lives and pieces of our identities living on the internet, the new danger that comes with that is cyber security hacks and vulnerabilities.
Hackers and thieves used to have to take our purses and wallets, or lift numbers off our credit cards or social security identifiers in order to compromise our personal or business information; today, all a hacker needs to do is find the appropriate online platform that has poor security, and take all the database information that lies within it. Pretty scary, if you think about it. This infographic, the 2012 Cyber Security Research Report lays out the fine details and statistics about the state of Cyber Security today and how it affects all of us as internet users.
Apple consumers could perhaps see the debut of both the new iPhone and an iPad Mini come September.
Citing “sources who have proven accurate in the past,” blog site iMore says that Apple will announce the two devices at a special event on Wednesday, September 12. The iPhone 5 itself would then go on sale 9 days later on Friday, September 21.
This latest report follows a tidbit last week from French site App4Phone.fr (English translation), which pointed to a September 21 release date based on intel from Chinese manufacturing sources. The spacing itself jibes with last year’s schedule when Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S on October 4 and then released it 10 days later.
Facebook’s stock is getting hammered in extended trading today after it reported its second-quarter earnings.
Facebook just barely beat consensus estimates for revenue from Wall Street, and was in-line on earnings. But the stock is cratering anyway, now floating at around $24.
There is definitely going to be a successor to the Kindle Fire, but whether Amazon launches another seven inch device, ten inch device, or both devices remains to be seen.
A recent report from the New York Times citing a source close to Amazon claims the retail giant is planning to launch a tablet that can compete directly with the iPad. Given the iPad’s large, 9.7 inch display, it would make sense for Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire to contain a screen around that size. Of course, with a larger screen comes a larger price point, so it would also make sense for Amazon to continue with another 7 inch device, with upgraded specs, to compete with the Nexus 7 and other 7 inch tablets.
Last Wednesday everyone went crazy when CERN scientists announced proof of the existence of the Higgs boson, which theoretically gives us mass and holds the Universe together. Now, other physicists say that CERN may have found an impostor and not the popularly called God Particle.
After analyzing the data collected at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, scientists Ian Low, Joseph Lykken and Gabe Shaughnessy at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, claim that these observations may be explained by two other “impostor” particles, which may be masquerading as the fabled Higgs boson:
AllThingsD is reporting that the next Kindle Fire will be thinner and lighter than the current Kindle Fire with a better display, boosting the pixels to a 1280 x 800 resolution. Supposedly, Amazon is targeting the second half of the year for the release—late in the third quarter, to be a little more specific.
AllThingsD also expects a camera to be added in the next Kindle Fire, which should help make more people look like hilarious fools for taking pictures with their tablets. The thing about a new 1280x800 screen though is that it changes the aspect ratio of the Kindle Fire from 1.71 to an aspect ratio of 1.60. The 1280x800 display is actually used in the Nexus 7 tablet so we could be looking at similar screens here.
It’s been rumored for years. Is Apple finally set to sell a smaller iPad? That’s what Bloomberg says it has heard from two different sources.
Apple is planning to introduce an iPad with a screen measuring “7 inches to 8 inches diagonally, less than the current 9.7-inch version,” saysthe report published Tuesday. However, this iPad won’t have a Retina display, according to one of the sources.
It could be introduced by the end of the year, possibly in October.
Amazon is prepping a 7-inch $199 tablet for a third quarter release, reports Max Wang for Digitimes. Reportedly, this tablet will have better specs than the Fire with a higher quality screen and more than likely a more competent computing platform. The original Fire will then get cut to $150. Then, later in the year or maybe in early 2013, Amazon will release a 10.1-inch model. This comes by way of an “upstream supply chain” source. Digitimes is as sketchy as trade publications get, but logic dictates that there is some truth here.
