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Social researcher Mark McCrindle estimates about one in three Australians in their mid-30s has a tattoo. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/fashion/im-inked-therefore-i-am-why-tatts-have-left-a-mark-on-gen-y/story-e6frfn7i-1225945591327#ixzz14E7Yn3e2

Interesting take on ipad app, one for kids and one for adults

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Depending on where you sit in the room, you'll see a different image. Supposedly hurts the eyes, but if one person sits on one end of the couch and another person on the other end, one could play video games while the other watches TV.

content over platform- the app pulls from wherever (netflix, hulu etc) but the user sees one uniform user interface

Harry Potter e-books site Pottermore.com officially launches in October, but a "Magical Quill" contest that grants one million winners access to the beta site is drawing massive traffic. And beta accounts are popping up on eBay. For each of the seven days, a clue will be posted on the Pottermore homepage, leading those who solve it to the "Magical Quill"-the opportunity to register for early access to the site. A limited number of people are able to register each day, and the competition is designed to keep them glued to the site-though some winners immediately began selling their early-access accounts on eBay. (The bidding on one account is now up to $152.50.)

On entering the site, users begin to travel through the world of Harry Potter and the [Sorceror's] StOne, following in the footsteps of Harry and learning new facts about his world as they open an account at the goblin bank Gringotts, travel up and down DiagOn Alley shopping for equipment for school and choosing a wand. Unlocking new cOntent as they progress through the storyline, they can click On and collect items for their "trunk," build and evolve their profiles, adding their own drawings, collecting books and chocolate frog cards, learning spells and brewing potiOns. A Pottermore account can also be cOnnected to a Facebook account, with users able to make friends-and even take part in wizarding duels Once they reach a certain point On the website.

another bad idea from RIM- offering $5 for 50 songs (thats it) that can only live on the blackberry. no plans on how to compete with Rdio and Rhapsody that offer $10/mo for unlimited songs that can live on multiple platforms.

QR code atop roofs on google maps.

Mr. Withiam added that travelers were expecting trip-related services to be available on the new platforms. PhoCusWright, a travel research firm, has found that 13 percent of social-network users now shop for travel on those Web sites and 35 percent of mobile-phone users expect to book travel on their phones in the next year.

Waze draws data on roads and traffic by analysing collective data from its users, while also enabling them to actively submit reports on accidents, police traps and other blockages. The company has shown off its crowdsourced data with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) videos like this one for Los Angeles:

pledged to donate one meal for every "like" accrued on the Facebook page for his one-month-old "Street King" energy drink.

he New York Times had an interesting read this weekend on experiments by Hulu and YouTube to let viewers pick which ads they're forced to endure. In some cases, this means selecting a spot from a list of brands, but it also includes letting viewers choose whether to watch several short ads or one long one. In pretty much every case, it sounds like the results are underwhelming.

A small example of the emerging two class society? On One side those that resist (or dOn't have access to) new technologies and On the other those that embrace them. As technologies become smarter and more powerful so do the tech adopters creating a chasm between the two groups that leads to fear, misunderstanding and ultimately violence.

To work towards a goal, users simply take a picture of each micro-task and share it with their followers and community, who can show support and encouragement through likes and comments. The idea is that focusing on small steps makes goals less overwhelming and more manageable on a daily basis, the company says.

Hooray! We're saved...wait...hold on...the Germany population between 1994-2014 actually declined. Workers retired few young to replace them. Also note that the study clearly shows that each robot remove the job from "humans." Says that around 275,000 manufacturing positions disapeared and that workers (the few young ones) took positions in other sectors like Service.

"While still young in robot years (and actual years; she turns 2 years old on Feb. 14), Sophia's natural language processing capabilities, a key function of AI across many voice AI platforms like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant, in some ways seem impressive. That's because she doesn't simply answer what she's asked. However, she also sometimes doesn't answer at all. Hanson Robotics requested some prep questions to train her in some topics ahead of time (something I'd never give a human before an interview), and Sophia could answer very few of them. Here's a transcript of our conversation. And the ones she did answer were nothing more than one-liners."

Starting on October 3 with the first Presidential debate you'll be able to watch Obama and Romney and Biden and Ryan face off live on YouTube. 

"Coke's involvement in Spotify is notable, as the soda marketer has tested the platform's various ad units repeatedly, while also helping to launch the digital firm's presence in Germany and Australia. Spotify has appeared on 100 million Coke bottles in Australia during the last five months, while receiving a similar on-package treatment recently in Germany. The music upstart is now in 17 countries and goes head-to-head in the U.S. with the formidable Pandora. For its past, Coke seems to be in a music-based turf war of larger scale, battling rival Pepsi for high school and college-aged consumers. Both brands have sponsored various concert series, with Pepsi spending significant resources in the last three years at South by Southwest."