06-05-2014, 02:59 AM
At the start, Tiananmen Square had the atmosphere of a festival. Most people couldn't see the hunger strikers – they saw the crowds marching with banners and music being played. Lots of things were surprising about the events in Tiananamen Square, even the demonstration itself. It's pretty rare in Chinese history for people to get together at the centre of a government square and defy the leadership.
But yesterday we also saw another company quietly release a series of chips that are virtually assured to wind up in many of the premium smartphones we will soon come to know and love.
DailyTech - Qualcomm Airs Snapdragon 610, 615, 801, Plus Groundbreaking Antenna Chip
It's definitely clear that Qualcomm is farther down the road to a truly monolithic core than Intel or chipset rival Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), at least on the mobile front.
DailyTech - Qualcomm Airs Snapdragon 610, 615, 801, Plus Groundbreaking Antenna Chip
A 2006 UCLA and Cal State-Long Beach study found that miles driven correlates more strongly with obesity than any other lifestyle factor.
Your Commute Is Making You Fat - Business Insider
This trend isn't quite as catastrophic as it might seem at first; one key factor here is shifting demographics. The US population is aging rapidly, meaning people are leaving work and taking in more and more money from Social Security and Medicare (included in "transfers"and pensions (included in "supplements to wages and salaries"
Income from work is shrinking. Here's where Americans are getting more of their income now. - Vox
Involuntary unemployment is a problem at any age, but it can have particularly devastating effects for young people — effects that last for the rest of their lives.
12 ways to fix the youth unemployment crisis - Vox
It also felt like the first Apple presentation since Steve Jobs that Tim Cook really owned. Last year's iPhone launch was stilted and awkward in many ways, but he and his team looked totally at ease. This was Cook's vision, his ideas for the future. This was Tim Cook's Apple.
Apple reminds us it's the software that really matters - News - Trusted Reviews
His tweak to the first-person shooter's main Windows program file lets the game's visuals run at up to a very wide 8K (specifically, 8,000 x 3,333). That's about 13 times more pixels than you'd see in a 1080p image, folks.
Crysis 8K resolution hack offers a peek at the next decade of gaming
It has taken residential solar a number of years, but recent first quarter 2014 findings show that a full one third of residential PV came online without any state incentive.
Falling Costs Are Pushing SunPower and Others Forward
The U.S. installed 1,330 megawatts of solar PV in Q1 2014, up 79 percent over Q1 2013 and the second-largest quarter for solar installations in the history of the market Cumulative operating PV capacity stood at 13,395 megawatts (DC), with 482,000 individual systems on-line as of the end of Q1 2014. PV growth was driven primarily by the utility solar market, which installed over 800 megawatts in Q1 2014, up from 322 megawatts in Q1 2013
A PV Market First: Residential Solar in the US Beats Commercial Installations : Greentech Media
Watch out. Traders are piling into the weak euro trade ahead of Thursday's European Central Bank meeting, its most anticipated gathering of the year. But that may be the wrong bet.
That big euro bet everyone's making might be wrong
A book hitting the stores Tuesday by CNBC's Kate Kelly takes a look inside the powerful group that runs the global commodities trade.
How aluminum became a cash cow for Goldman
High-frequency traders like their targets big, with share prices cheap (but not too cheap) and with a fairly low level of volatility. That's according to a study published Tuesday on Investopedia, which charted 24 companies that meet metrics HFT firms have favored historically.
Here are the 24 stocks high-speed traders love
The price increase is the latest sign that a spike in coffee futures earlier this year is trickling down to consumers. In late April, futures hit their highest price in more than two years as forecasters predicted a drought in top grower Brazil would reduce global supplies of coffee beans. Brazil produces half the world's arabica coffee beans, the variety used by Starbucks Corp. and others.
Coffee-Futures Run-Up Makes Way to Store Shelves - Yahoo Finance
A new study analyzing more than three decades of wage data argues that government polices-more than globalization, new technologies or gaps in education or training-go a long way to explaining the expanding wealth gap in America.
Wage growth flows to top 1 percent: Study - Yahoo Finance
The two writers develop an argument rare in Republican circles. They cite the liabilities of an economic worldview that doesn’t recognize the need for government “to help those who cannot individually do for themselves, to advance justice in an unjust world, and to lift up the weakest members of society.” They go on to make the case that “many conservatives fail to see the extent to which equal opportunity itself, a central principle of our national self-understanding, is becoming harder to achieve.
The Republican Case Against Republican Economics - NYTimes.com
Eurozone monetary policy transmission is broken. A key aspect of this is the failure of credit to get to small and medium enterprises, and consumers. This column uses the ‘I theory of money’ to diagnosis the problem and propose ‘prudently designed’ asset-backed securitisation as the cure.
Repairing the transmission of monetary policy through asset-backed securitisation | vox