As the Chinese government look set to announce that the country's annual economic growth will reach 12 percent in the first quarter of 2010, it becomes clear that the communist state are quickly becoming the benchmark for sustained economic growth and must be considered serious competition for the once untouchable United States.
Computer security firm Symantec announced on Monday that Shaoxing, China was malware capital of the world last month.
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi aims to be the world's first carbon-free city by relying entirely on solar and other renewable energy sources.
Many people believe that cell phone use is prohibited on planes to force passengers to use the ultra-expensive option of making an in-flight call from the phones provided on the airplanes.
Now the longest-running comedy in television history, THE SIMPSONS immediately struck a chord with viewers across the country as it poked fun of itself and everything in its wake. With its subversive humor and delightful wit, the series has made an indelible imprint on American pop culture, and the family members have become television icons.
The open educational resource movement is growing rapidly. Open educational resources give many people who would not be able to study due to finances or location an opportunity to learn, for free. While the quality of open courseware materials varies, many major schools are now offering free courses online.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand the scope of American military power relative to that of the rest of the world. This graphic illustrates America's aircraft carriers, and those of the rest of the world. Each icon is an accurate depiction of the flight deck of the ship as seen from above, all to a common scale. Each of the middle column of ships is roughly the size of the Empire State Building.
This is by no means the be all, end all, definitive history of video game development studios. There is still room for additional studios and for clarification of individual studio history, as well as more connections between the shift of studio talent from one company to another.
America’s billionaires are an elite and diverse group of people who either through luck or hard work and strategy have managed to build fortunes that most of us will only ever dream of having. Have a look at how these individuals propelled themselves into the world of the ultra-wealthy and fantasize about what you’d do if you had billions to play with.
