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World Population Forecast to Top 7 Billion in 2011 - The New York Times
In a sobering assessment of those two trends, William P. Butz, president of the Population Reference Bureau, said that “chronically low birthrates in developed countries are beginning to challenge the health and financial security of the elderly” at the same time that “developing countries are adding over 80 million to the population each year and the poorest of those countries are adding 20 million, exacerbating poverty and threatening the environment.” Projections, especially over decades, are vulnerable to changes in , retirement ages, birthrates, health care and other variables, but in releasing the bureau’s 2010 population data sheet, Carl Haub, its senior demographer, estimated this week that by 2050 the planet will be home to more than nine billion people.
Disney sells Miramax for $600 million to investor group - Entertainment - The Arts - TODAYshow.com
The link you followed may be broken or expired. Please try your link again, or take a look at our homepage for today's top news. Below you can find today's most e-mailed and most viewed stories.So, while I even hear Ashton Kutcher dictating domains with “backslash” this and “backslash” that, he’s wrong no matter how many Twitter followers he has. Just say “www dot twitter dot com slash a plus k” and you’re good. No real need to say forward slash any more. Post 1999, the forward slash has been universally replaced with just the simpler slash as a representation of the / character.
There are Never Blackslashes in Internet Address URLs — Chris Abraham
@Karoli Awh I wasn't chosen! You had to sign up http://bit.ly/9eRgLH not sure if you can still get in or not, might be worth a try
You all enjoyed the trailer , but now the year's biggest blockbuster has arrived at last. iPhone TweetDeck v2.0 is here ! In Hollywood they would call it a "re-imagining" - keep the essence of the original, but bring it bang up to date with a new team, top-class effects and plenty of scope for sequels. Ditch the camp soundtrack and overacting of Batman and Robin , and replace it with the cool car and new suit of Batman Begins . With the all-new iPhone TweetDeck, we have done just that. Our team took the original iPhone app and distilled the essence of what made it so popular into a series of guiding principles.
The May acquisition of True/Slant by Forbes Media turned out to be the death knell for the digital news site, as writer and reporter Neal Ungerleider said in a post on the site that operations would wind down at the end of the month. Ungerleider, a former editor of mediabistro’s FishbowlNY , added that he hoped to work with other True/Slant staffers on a yet-to-be-disclosed project. From his post: I have enjoyed myself greatly while writing for True/Slant. The staff, including Lewis D’Vorkin , Coates Bateman , Michael Roston , Andrea Spiegel , and Steve McNally , has done a marvelous job in working with us writers and creating a truly unique platform for us to work in. To be honest, I’ll miss True/Slant.
True/Slant Shutting Down - mediabistro.com: WebNewser
The website iowntheworld.com is posting pictures of the Men of Journolist, the listserv where “journalists” got together to hammer out talking points to help liberal politicians. The Journolist has been called corrupt. A disgrace. Something that will never be lived down. But it’s also the ugliest group of life forms this side of a National Geographic special.
The Men of Journolist | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Facebook To Birthday Pigs: “F*ck You B*tches”
Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading “fuck you bitches”. Yeah right, we thought.
A more innocent time. Fewer schoolchildren are now drinking, smoking and taking drugs, according to NHS report Fewer schoolchildren are smoking , drinking or taking drugs, according to an NHS report which contradicts the widespread belief that such behaviour is increasingly popular with young people . The proportion of 11- to 15-year-olds who have taken drugs on at least one occasion has fallen from 29% in 2001 to 22% last year. And the proportion who admit to having ever used alcohol has dropped from 61% in 2003 to 51% in 2009. But the biggest decline has been in smoking.
NHS reports fall in drug, tobacco and alcohol use among schoolchildren | Society | The Guardian
Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn’t look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display , previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX . (The low price, $139 for the Wi-Fi version, certainly doesn’t hurt.)
Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They’re Two Different Products For A Reason.
Google’s Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.28%
Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More
Evidence Ties Manning to Afghan WikiLeaks Data - WSJ.com
Investigators have found concrete evidence on computers used by Pfc. Bradley Manning that link him with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a U.S. defense official said. Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO -- There's a scene from the new film Inception in which the main character, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, has entered another character's mind through a dream and tells him, "I know how to find secrets from your mind--I know all the tricks!" It's easy for DiCaprio's character to make this claim. After all, he's in a big-budget Hollywood movie. He can do anything he wants, given the right special effects.
The Science Of 'Inception' - Forbes.com
Amazon predicts that it will sell more e-books than paperbacks by the end of next year, and that they will eclipse both paperback and hardcover sales combined shortly thereafter. “I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told USA Today . Kindle books have already eclipsed hardcover sales ; Amazon recently said it sells 180 e-books for every 100 hardcovers, with the ratio constantly shifting in e-books’ favor. Many readers still favor the good old printed book. In a recent poll , most Mashable readers cited a preference for physical books over e-books.