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A map developed by two Oxford Internet Institute researchers uses Internet traffic data from Alexa to determine each country's most-visited website, Drew DeSilver of Pew Research reports.

The countries look funny because each one is scaled to number of Internet users it has.

The results are fascinating: Google dominates most of North America, Europe, south Asia and the south Pacific while Facebook wins out in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Researchers Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata note that among the 50 countries where Facebook is listed -- For more information read the original article here.

M-Blocks

Looking at these reconfiguring robo-cubes, created by research scientists at MIT in the face of ongoing naysaying, it strikes me that the human race can't be far off a huge achievement: building a physical version of Tetris that self assembles. From angular chaos, to robot-enabled order. That and giving future Dalek armies the ability to bound up stairs.

The M-Blocks, shown off in the above video, are reconfigurable, modular robots with no external moving parts. The cubes' ability to move results from harnessing the momentum of an internal flywheel (which can hit speeds of -- For more information read the original article here.


an industrial warehouse has been revamped into a colorful indoor landscape hosting 15 different, thematically designed caravans.

The post indoor campground hostel hosts vintage RVs as rooms appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The original US voice for Apple's Siri has been identified as an Atlanta woman, Susan Bennett, according to CNN. Bennett says that she only discovered her voice was being used by Apple when a friend emailed her and asked if it was her voice in an iPhone commercial; not owning the latest iPhone at the time, she had to visit the Apple website to confirm the fact. She explains that the samples used were actually recorded in July 2005, over six years before Apple would announce its first incarnation of Siri, for the iPhone 4S. A different version of Siri -- For more information read the original article here.
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