Scientists find weird new property of matter that breaks all the rules

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When physicists discover new properties of matter, it usually means better technologies for the rest of us. Superconductors, liquid crystal displays like the ones found in most TVs now, medical imaging technologies that allow doctors to peer inside the human body, and magnetic levitation — which was used to create the Shanghai Maglev train — are all examples of how discoveries of new properties of matter have resulted in revolutionary products.

Now, physicists have discovered another new property of matter that could lead to a new generation of innovation.

For the past 25 years, physicists observed a persistent glitch while conducting experiments that involved cooling a uranium compound to near absolute zero. When the compound, URu2Si2, was cooled to -438 degrees Fahrenheit, they would see a fall in the amount of chaos in the system. The molecules seemed to snap into an ordered state, letting out a burst of heat the scientists couldn't account for. Where did this extra heat come from?

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The State of the Music Industry

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The only truth about the buisness in the music industry. A comic by The Oatmeal.

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The State of Social Media

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The speed at which social media, as an industry, changes only brings to mind one term for me: break neck pace.

I live and breathe this industry and even I have trouble keeping up. We all see it every day as new platforms and tools and best practices are constantly evolving.

Luckily, there is also quite a bit of data and research available to help us get a grip on these changes.

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The Current State of Online Advertising

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The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released its annual report on Internet advertising.

It's a must read for anyone in the industry.
Headlines:

Online ad growth has returned to pre-2009 levels.

Internet advertising grew 21.9% in 2011.

Retail, financial services, travel, and media spending drove that growth.

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The Current State of the Internet & Future Predictions

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We’re on pace to generate 1.3 zettabytes of data in 2016, about four times more than we create today, according to the latest data out from Cisco. To put that in perspective, Cisco helpfully tells us that’s more than 38 million DVDs streamed in an hour. Or, you can think of it as a 1 followed by 21 zeros.

The telecom gear maker offered up its fifth annual assessment of future broadband growth on fixed, managed and wireless networks around the world Wednesday. And to no one’s surprise, as individuals, households and countries we’re just going to keep boosting our broadband use.

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The state of the internet - Infographic

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Not much needs to be said, here. We’re all on the internet. There are definitely people who are not, but for the most part it is a tool that affects nearly everyone worldwide even if they aren’t users themselves. One would be hard-pressed to find anyone in western society who is not on the internet in one way or another.

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The Current State Of HTML5 [INFOGRAPHIC]

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HTML5 is the latest incarnation of the standards that make the web work today. It began all the way back in 1980 with Tim Berners-Lee and the birth of the modern Internet as we know it. Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system, and ended up creating the first version of HTML (the Hyper Text Markup Language) by 1990. In 1991 the first 20 elements were released, and began to form the standardisation of Internet pages that still continues today (13 of them still exist in HTML4).

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