ITU: There Are Now Over 1 Billion Users Of Social Media Worldwide, Most On Mobile Comment
What does it mean when Facebook says it has 901 million monthly active users on its network? According to figures out from the International Telecommunication Union, it effectively signifies that Facebook is the world’s largest social network by a very long shot. The ITU says in a new report that that the number of people [...]
Will Earth no longer define time? Leap second could be abolished. Comment
The rotation of the Earth has defined time for as long as time has been kept, but keeping up with all of Earth’s little quirks by adding and subtracting an occasional leap second is getting tiring. Timekeepers could vote Thursday to rely solely on atomic clocks.? After millenniums as humanity’s timekeeper, Earth may be about [...]