Day: January 23, 2012

YouTube hits 4 billion views per day, deals with 60 hours of uploaded content every minute (Update: Count it in nyans)

It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it’s now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier. According to Reuter‘s report, the site now has to deal with around 60 hours of uploaded video every minute. As long as those education videos are kept separate and the cat content keeps coming, we’ll be happy.

Update: Check out the official stats on Google’s YouTube blog post, in the video embedded after the break, or a site chock-full of relevant visualizations the company has put together at OneHourPerSecond.com

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Scientists produce stronger T-rays, bring Tricorders closer to reality

A group of scientists from Imperial College London and Singapore’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) have developed a new technique that could have far reaching impacts for Star Trek fans everywhere. It all involves something known as Terahertz (THz), or T-rays: electromagnetic rays that have already been used in full-body airport scanners and have the potential to be used across a much broader range of medical and environmental applications. Because every molecule can be uniquely identified within the THz range, these T-rays can be used to pick up on cancerous cells and other biological matter, perhaps even within a Tricorder-like scanner. Now, Imperial College’s Stefan Maier and his team of scientists say they’ve found a way to create a stronger beam of T-rays, using so-called “nano-antennas” to generate an amplified THz field. In fact, this field can produce about 100 times more power than most other THz sources, which could allow for sharper imaging devices. “T-rays promise to revolutionize medical scanning to make it faster and more convenient, potentially relieving patients from the inconvenience of complicated diagnostic procedures and the stress of waiting for accurate results,” Maier explained. “Thanks to modern nanotechnology and nanofabrication, we have made a real breakthrough in the generation of T-rays that takes us a step closer to these new scanning devices.” For more details, check out the links below.

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YouTube hits 4 billion views per day, deals with 60 hours of uploaded content every minute

It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it’s now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier. According to Reuter‘s report, the site now has to deal with around 60 hours of uploaded video every minute. As long as those education videos are kept separate and the cat content keeps coming, we’ll be happy.

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Can America Make the iPhone? (Hint: It’s Not About The Labor Cost)

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in February, President Obama surprised Steve Jobs with a question of what
it would take to make the iPhones in the United States, rather than China.

Jobs replied that the iPhone could never be made in the United States
… and no, it’s not because American labor costs (in fact, labor
cost is a tiny fraction of the cost of making an iPhone). It’s because
America simply doesn’t have the manufacturing might anymore:

“Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create
middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,” said Jared Bernstein, who
until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.

“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”

Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their
only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon
a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the
device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen
at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began
arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s
dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit
and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started
a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96
hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive
said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”

Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher wrote this intriguing article over
at The New York Times about the death of manufacturing and the disappearing
American middle class – if you read only one thing today, make it this
one: Link
| TLDR? Here it is in video
summary

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NinjaVideo.net Founder Gets 14 Months


angry tapir writes “A Virginia judge has sentenced Matthew David Howard Smith, a founder of the NinjaVideo.net website, to 14 months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Smith was indicted along with four others late last year. The DOJ charged that they illegally provided copyright-protected movies and TV programs for download from the NinjaVideo.net website. The site operated from February 2008 until authorities shut it down in June 2010.”



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