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2022-02-07 09:00:02 Find out which movie this quote is from and many others Open / Comment

2022-02-06 10:00:01 𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚁𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚜𝚝?

Recently inflation in the US hit a number not seen for 40 years, as prices rose on average 7% from Dec-2020 to Dec-2021.

Within that overall measure there is of course a huge range of price changes. We've chosen some of the most important categories from the BLS data.

At the top of the list is "getting around by car", with gasoline prices up almost 50%, and used cars and trucks costing on average 37% more than in 2020. Utility costs are also up, with gas up 24% and electricity up 6%.

In the food department it's bad news for bodybuilders with proteins like meat, poultry, fish and eggs up on average 12%, and weekly food shop likely to cost you 6.5% more this year. Eating out, or "food away from home" as the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts it, is also up 6%.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-06 09:00:03 BREAKING NEWS Russia will officially support war against Taiwan alongside with China. Russia does NOT accept Taiwain's independence. Open / Comment

2022-02-05 10:00:01 𝙼𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝙾𝚏 𝙶𝚕𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚕 𝚆𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝙰𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚋𝚎𝚍 𝙱𝚢 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙾𝚌𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜

Recently a new study published in the academic journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences revealed that the ocean had absorbed another 14 zettajoules of energy in the last year. A joule is a measurement of energy and a "zetta" is a prefix that saves us from writing the number like this: 14,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy.

As one of the authors of the study wrote in The Guardian, that amount of energy is the equivalent of 440 billion toasters (57 toasters per person around the world) running 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

More than 90% of global warming heat eventually ends up in the ocean, which is an excellent store of heat and energy. Warmer oceans can store energy that might otherwise end up in our atmosphere, but they can also mean less sea ice, higher sea levels and disruptions to the all important ocean currents.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-04 10:00:01 𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗'𝚜 𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚃𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚖 𝚅𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙱𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚃𝚘 𝙴𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑

Last summer Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos competed in launching themselves into space, with both billionaires experiencing zero-gravity for a brief time, as they marketed their respective "space tourism" projects.

For Richard Branson, reaching 283,000 feet above sea level on July 11th really was the peak — as everything has been downhill for his Virgin Galactic venture since then.

First a report from the New Yorker revealed that a warning light had gone off during the flight. The FAA eventually investigated and cleared the incident, but it was the start of a chain of bad news for Virgin Galactic. The company announced delays to its commercial flights for "technical reasons", and then that it was raising another $425m in debt to accelerate the "development of its spacecraft" among other uses, which sent shares down another 20%.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-04 09:00:05 W͗͋Ḣ̈A͗́T̎̓ Ȉ̆Ś̓ ͈̦ T̅̃H̾͆Ĭ͂S̚ ̽̏?̋̉




We do not know, but we know who sent us this picture

And we also learned that this someone has a channel with amazing room designs, thanks to which you can give your room that very comfort and warmth Open / Comment

2022-02-03 10:00:01 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Uber has some new competition in Brazil — the government-backed app Taxi.Rio which has seen its usage rise by 60% in recent months.

2) New data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that 2021 was the fifth-warmest year on record. While 2021 didn't break any records itself, the new data means that the seven hottest years ever recorded have now been the last seven years.

3) Back Market, a company that operates a marketplace of refurbished smartphones for people who don't want to fork over $1,000 every 2 years for a new one, has raised a fresh round of funding at a $5.7bn valuation.

4) Inflation has hit another record in the US, with prices rising 7% in December 2021 compared to the same month the year before. That's the fastest pace of price rises for almost 40 years.

5) Apple has removed some of the blatant copycats of the popular word game Wordle from the App Store.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-02 10:00:03 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝙰𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙵𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜

A new survey from Gallup in December reveals that Americans reportedly read just 12.6 books each on average last year, down from the 15.6 average in 2016. The data includes all forms of books, including printed books but also electronic books and audiobooks.

Gallup notes that the "decline in book reading is mostly a function of how many books readers are reading, as opposed to fewer Americans reading any books".

Reading optimists could argue that it's possible that everyone is just reading longer but fewer books than they used to, but when the data is combined with the fact that just 6% of US adults named reading as their favorite way to spend an evening, down from 12% in 2016.

The survey also found that women read more than men, with women getting through 15.7 books, compared to an average of 9.5 for men. Also 18-34 year-olds read more than others.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-01 10:00:02 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝙸𝚜 𝙱𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚎 𝙱𝚘𝚡 𝙾𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚎... 𝙱𝚢 𝙰 𝙻𝚘𝚝

The chart gives some context on just how big the video game biz is. Last year the video game industry was pegged at somewhere around $180bn. That's roughly 10x what the global movie industry brought in at the box office last year. Admittedly last year the movie industry was still dealing with a pandemic hangover, but even in its best ever year the box office only brought in $39bn.

Video games may not carry the cultural impact of movies yet, but as a market they are in a completely different league. Mobile games, that is games played on a smartphone or tablet, have grown so quickly that they are now bigger than console & PC games combined.

Zynga's pivot to mobile is a great example of a company that's been flexible to its rapidly changing surroundings. Mobile games that almost killed them, now is the reason that got them $12.7bn.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-01-31 10:00:01 𝙼𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛 𝚉𝚢𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝙸𝚜 𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙰𝚌𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝙵𝚘𝚛 $𝟷𝟸.𝟽𝚋𝚗

Zynga, the gaming giant responsible for FarmVille, Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars and many others is getting bought for $12.7 billion by Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind Grand Theft Auto and the 2K sports series, in one of the biggest video game deals ever.

From its founding in 2004, until it hit one billion active users in 2012, the early years of Facebook presented an enormous opportunity for game makers. Facebook's rise meant that game makers could get in front of millions of procrastinating people by building a game directly into the Facebook platform, instead of competing for traffic on the wider internet.

Zynga took advantage of that creating some of the most popular Facebook games. Every time you, or that distant cousin, successfully "invited" someone to play FarmVille on Facebook, Zynga got a new user, for free.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment