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Here are the latest updates for jorgeus.george@gmail.com "Next Big Future" - 5 new articles Smart Phones and Tablets reach 50% market penetration in the US and will have HDTV screen quality in Next generation smartphones Construction of Japanese Ohma Nuclear reactor to resume Canada Revises GDP Statistics upwards by 2.6% Extra cost for Hybrid cars is down to $2500 PSYngularity More Recent Articles Search Next Big Future Prior Mailing Archive Smart Phones and Tablets reach 50% market penetration in the US and will have HDTV screen quality in Next generation smartphones 1. Detroit Free Press - Half of all adult Americans now own either a tablet computer or a smartphone, and one-third use their mobile devices to view news stories and video clips at least once a week. That's according to a survey by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, which polled more than 9,500 adults from late June to early August. Devices based on Google Inc.'s Android platform are gaining momentum. Pew found that just over half of tablet owners reported owning Apple's iPad, compared with 81% a year ago. Forty-eight percent now own an Android-based device, including Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire. 2. Gigaom - Starting this month, Sharp will have a full production line producing full HD displays for smartphones. The 5-inch LCD screens will support 1920 x 1080 resolution, which is the highest found on HDTVs that are in stores today. That works out to an eye-popping 443 pixels per inch, or a pixel density roughly 30 percent higher than the Retina display used on Apple's iPhone. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Construction of Japanese Ohma Nuclear reactor to resume World Nuclear News - The Japan Electric Power Development Corp (J-Power) will resume construction of the Ohma nuclear power plant in Aomori prefecture. It will be the first Japanese nuclear construction project to restart since all such projects were suspended following the Fukushima accident. Work to build the 1383 MWe (gross) Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) in Aomori prefecture was 40% complete in March 2011 when a tsunami caused the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (Tepco's) Fukushima Daiichi plant. An extended hiatus followed, during which Japan developed a new energy strategy. The start of construction of the Ohma plant was originally due in August 2007, with commercial operation planned for March 2012. However, the imposition of more stringent seismic regulations put back the start of construction May 2008 and commercial operation to November 2014. J-Power said that it has not yet scheduled a new date for the start of operation "but intends to review the matter in the future based on progress in construction." In addition to the Ohma plant, construction was also suspended of unit 3 of Chugoku Electric Power Co's Shimane plant, while the start of construction of unit 1 of Tepco's Higashidori plant has been deferred from the original April 2011 date. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Canada Revises GDP Statistics upwards by 2.6% Statistics Canada revised Canada's historical GDP statistics from 1981 to 2012 Revisions to the growth in GDP over the revision period were not substantial. Over the entire 1982 to 2011 period, the mean absolute revision to the annual nominal growth rate in GDP was 0.15 percentage points, while the mean absolute revision to the annual real growth rate in GDP was 0.14 percentage points. In 2007 (the new base and reference year for the Canadian economic accounts), the nominal level of GDP was revised upward by $36.4 billion, or 2.4% of the previous estimate of GDP. ActionForex - As a result of these changes, the level of GDP, in nominal terms, is 2.6% higher than previously reported in the second quarter of 2012. The most significant contributor to this upward revision was the inclusion of R&D expenditures and military weapons systems in business and government investment. The revisions imply a slightly faster pace of growth in recent quarters. This greater momentum could prompt some upward revisions to 2012 GDP forecasts. Canada's population should pass 35 million by the end of 2012 Canada's GDP in Q2 2012 is C$1.81 trillion Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Extra cost for Hybrid cars is down to $2500 Technology Review - an accumulation of improvements have lowered the cost premium on hybridcars from $6000 to $2500. The extra cost is about 40% of what it was a few years ago. The drop in cost is due to an accumulation of incremental technology improvements, along with economies of scale. And advances going forward—better batteries, electric motors, and power electronics and transmissions—could cut costs by another 50 percent. At Toyota, for example, the company shifted from a 500-volt electrical system to a 650-volt one, a decision that produced "a host of benefits," says Justin Ward, advanced power-train program manager at the Toyota Technical Center. The company was able to reduce the cost and weight of copper wiring, use cheaper power transistors in the electronics that control the hybrid system, and make the electric motor cheaper and smaller. Read more » • Email to a friend • PSYngularity Psy is the Korean rapper who has exploded onto the internet with his "Gangnam style" video. It is not yet the most viewed video on Youtube. However, it will likely crack the top ten this week. The tenth most popular video is Enimem - "Not Afraid" at about 360 million views. Gangnam Style is at 334 million (after 60 days) and is increasing its views by about 5 to 10 million each day. A Justin Bieber video is number one with about 780 million views. By the end of 2012, it will probably take 1 billion views to be number 1 on Youtube. For those who have not seen it. Trivia The elevator scene - the person in the elevator was a friend of Psy who visited during the shooting of the video. They improvised that scene. From a comment - The word "oppa" (literally older brother) is an informal title like "daddy" and "mommy" in English. This title, "oppa," can be used only by a girl when she calls out to or talks to either (1) her real older brother in her family, or (2) a male friend slightly older than she is (not older than, very roughly, 10 years, in which case the title "a-jo-ssi," literally uncle, would be more appropriate). For the second use, the older male friend does not necessarily have to be her boyfriend, although he can be. "Oppa" conveys a sense of warm friendship, so all Korean guys love to be called "oppa" by younger girls--especially by those they find attractive. As for what the difference between "oppa" and "oppan" is, "oppan" simply means "oppa is." So "Oppan Gangnam style" means "(girls!) Older brother is Gangnam style," Gangnam is the richest district in Korea full of expensive condos many of which are well over US $2 million dollars. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles Carnival of Nuclear Energy 124 Halving the cost of superconductors will see major shifts from conventional infrastructure in 5 to 10 years Electronics That Fight Infection and Dissolve Away New designs Enabled by Robotic Cars Sloppy warp fields should be much easier to engineer

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