All Entries Tagged With: "World"
Map of Nuclear Explosions From 1945-1998
A video that speaks no words. Merely a map, sound effects, and some visual effects. The representation, however, signals something truly, truly frightening. It’s a map that displays [almost] every [known] nuclear detonation and explosion in the world, and the end result may change your outlook on just how clean our planet may be.
Running from 1945-1998, the map highlights the worst offenders of nuclear fallout, the United States and Russia. That doesn’t mean they’re the only offenders, however.
It’s truly an interesting concept that our world has seen over 2,000 nuclear detonations — thankfully only two used in an act of aggression, and that’s too many.
Share your thoughts.
4Chan Attempts To Send Justin Bieber To North Korea
See the update to this article here.
Have a laugh. The sores of users over at 4Chan are working hard, hard, hard to send Canadian pop music star to North Korea. See, the star’s management team has had the brilliant idea to allow people on the internet decide where Justin Bieber will head on his next world tour.
In this case, the 4Chan group suggests that ultra-secretive and potentially dangerous North Korea would be a fantastic destination, despite the fact that maybe only one or two citizens of the nation know who Bieber actually is.
The funny thing here is that this initiative is actually picking up steam. As of this writing, North Korea is in third place with just over 158,000 votes — behind both Israel and Poland. We fully expect this to pick up steam, however, as the story is moving from 4Chan to other sharing websites like Reddit.
More Images of BlackBerry 9800 Appear
The BlackBerry Slider, Bold 9800, Torch, or whatever else it may be called has been photographed prior to its announcement more times than a celebrity at a red carpet event. Seriously, images and videos of this upcoming BlackBerry Smartphone by Research In Motion just keep surfacing at least once a week.
Consumer electronics-related blog Engadget is the latest to obtain and leak a ton of new images of the device with many names destined to go to AT&T later this year.
According to the images, both the hardware and the operating system appear to be more refined than in previous leaks, which suggests that the device is almost ready to be released. The boot-up screen shows the AT&T logo, and classifies the phone as a “World Phone” with support for WCDMA bands I, II, V, and VI. The smartphone in the photos is running BlackBerry OS 6, although it’s identified as version 0.9 for some reason.
Many more images in the full post.
iPad Market Share Continues To Climb, Thanks To International Release
Not a big surprise here, but it would appear (according to data supplied by NetMarketShare) as if iPad market share just continues to grow beyond belief. At Tuesday’s D8 conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted the fact that an iPad is purchased every three seconds, making it an incredibly popular device — naturally.
You can see on the appended image that usage spiked after the 28th of May, again, after the device made its international debut. You can expect to see this figure climb as the device penetrates more markets throughout, though. Also, take a look at the bumps in the chart, which signal that iPad usage spikes upwards once the weekends arrive, given that many folks are out of work and playing with their iPads.
Map Shows Off Solar Surface Area Required To Power World
If you haven’t already guessed, it’s quite a slow news day. Apple won’t budge on the tablet, Google’s running searches as usual, and Twitter’s managed to stay up without issue so far today. So we’re going to bring you utter coolness instead.
Have you ever wondered how much solar panel surface area the world needs to meet today’s demands of electricity? Wonder no more, because the image we’ve attached (click to enlarge) to this article speaks a thousand words. According to the image, in 2008, approximately 366,375 square kilometers of solar panels was required to satisfy the world’s demands for electricity. Fast forward to 2030, and we’ll be needing a whopping 496,805 square kilometers of solar panels to meet demand.
McAfee Ranks The Most And Least Dangerous Domains in The World
McAfee released yesterday its third annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report, which highlights the most and least dangerous domains in the world. Claiming the top spot with 36.7% of sites posing a risk, the most dangerous domain is .cm, which belongs to the small African nation of Cameroon. According to McAfee, considering that .cm is often a typo of .com, cybercriminals use the domain to set up contaminated websites.
Speaking of .com, it claimed the second spot as the most dangerous domain with 32.2% of websites infected with some kind of malware. That’s a huge move from last year’s 9th place. On the other side of the spectrum, Japan’s .jp was considered the least dangerous country domain. The safest generic and overall domain is the goverment’s .gov with 0% risk.
Official Photoshop App for The iPhone Goes Global
Nearly two months after Adobe officially launched its mobile Photoshop app for the iPhone in the US and Canada, the company has announced that the application is finally downloadable in every country where the Apple App Store is available. The application was featured as one of the “Top Free Apps” in the iTunes Store for three straight weeks after its release.
Breaking: BlackBerry Internet Service [BIS] Down Globally
Apparently, BlackBerry Internet Service [BIS] might be down for many. Various users from multiple carriers not only in North America but across the world have been reporting trouble with BIS. I personally just had a little trouble accessing the Internet on my BlackBerry browser. At this point it’s not really clear what the cause of the outage is. Let us know in the comments below where in the world you are and if your BlackBerry device is having data issues.
We’ll be updating as soon as we find out more.
Time Spent Online Worldwide: Microsoft Tops Google And Yahoo
According to research firm comScore, Microsoft sites managed to capture 14.5% of the 27 billion hours spent online by people all around the world in the month of September 2009. This puts Microsoft in the nuber one spot as the most engaging property in the world. Google and Yahoo follow.
