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Who Wins The Santa Vs Zombies Vs Satan Google Battle These Holidays?

1:46AM December 20, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

The University of Oxford’s Internet Institute has discovered that there are places in the United States where there are more people googling for zombies and satan than for Santa Claus. They have found some interesting patterns: More »

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Which Shipping Company Treats Your Packages Better?

7:00AM November 24, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

It’s time to order presents in and probably send packages out. To me, a crucial question is: What’s the best shipping company? Who treats my stuff better while in transit? Popular Mechanics made a scientific test. Here’s the result. More »

Data Visualisation, Visualised

3:40AM November 24, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

We love nice charts and data visualisation. That’s why we like this meta-chart: Data visualisation, visualised. Design, user interface, information, data journalism, communication and visual communication, merging. [Ffunction] More »

Mobile

Who Is Really Winning The Smartphone Race?

12:00AM October 8, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Apple fanboys vs HTC fandroids. Crackberry junkies vs Nokia cheerleaders. All of them have their arguments and never-ending doses of absurdly blind faith in a corporation. But who is really winning this race? Who is really the dominant smartphone manufacturer? More »

Is This The Reason Why Most Military Projects Go Over Budget?

2:15PM September 14, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Open this chart and look closely. After you get over the sudden nausea and dizziness caused by your eyes and brain trying to adjust to it, try to get deeper into it. Repeat until something, anything, makes sense. More »

Science

The Subway Map Of Science

1:40AM September 3, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Interconnecting natural philosophy, theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, astronomy and cosmology, natural history, geology and paleontology, genetics, chemistry, microbiology, neurology, medicine, and even the closed Chemistry line, this map of the subway is a fascinating summary of human sciences. More »

Online

Study Shows People Often Take Ten-Minute "Private Browsing" Breaks Around Lunchtime

11:14AM August 24, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

While we still don’t know for certain just what it is that people look at when they switch Firefox to the “private browsing” mode, we do now know when they’re most likely to use it—and for how long. More »

Mobile

Third Of Devices Accessing The Android Market Are Running Android 2.1

3:00PM May 18, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Occasionally Google produces charts showing “the relative number of active devices running a given version of the Android platform.” The latest of these charts is special though: It apparently marks the first time Android 2.1 was the most used version. More »

How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying

12:40PM May 18, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Yikes. While the amounts are only tiny fractions of their revenues, major tech companies are spending quite a bit of money on lobbying. Hell, apparently “Google’s lobbying is half what it spends on advertising.” [BI] More »