More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history. Each year, the number of firearm-related deaths reach almost the equivalent of U.S. casualties in Korean War.
Source : Data Visualization: More Americans killed by guns since 1968 than in all U.S. wars
They have all kinds of jobs. Some have top positions in the health services, others are unemployed and disabled. Some have done Christian work, others have held central positions in the armed forces. Some are manual workers; others are artists, musicians or photographers. Some work in IT.All the downloaders are men. That is one of the few common denominators.
This map is not really the best option to show such a thing…
Source : This map shows 95,000 downloaders of child abuse pictures worldwide – Kampen mot overgrepsfiler – VG
Last week, T-Mobile revealed that hackers had stolen records for “approximately” 15 million people. How approximate? If history is any guide, very approximate.
Source : Never trust the first number announced in a data breach – Quartz
Histography is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015
Source : Histography – Timeline of History
Photography in a whole new light. Introducing the Light L16 Camera.
Source : Light
Google’s search chief Amit Singhal said for the first time this summer, more Google searches were completed on mobile devices than desktop computers.
Source : Mobile Searches Surpass Desktop Searches At Google For The First Time | TechCrunch
Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s director of product, told TechCrunch that Spanish and Irish users have relatively few international friends, so “they work better as closed test groups.”
Source : Facebook is supplementing the “like” button with six emoji reactions – Quartz
L’ambiguïté vient du fait que nous sommes dans un écosystème où tous les acteurs doivent travailler avec Google et que, dans le même temps, nous devons nous défendre contre ses abus de position dominante.
City running data from the last 12 months.
Source : Strava Insights – Explore the world through Strava data.
A man handed six years for threatening a local Georgia court clerk that he would post a sex tape of her on Facebook had his conviction overturned by the state’s Supreme Court. The justices ruled Monday that the Facebook postings did not constitute criminality or a « true threat » under the law, because the defendant did not express an « intent to commit an act of unlawful violence. »
Source : Threatening to post sex tape on Facebook is not a crime, court rules | Ars Technica
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