Wondering how your sucky “broadband” connection is able to pull that much information into your computer within the average 11.8 hours of daily consumption? The study went beyond the internet, covering other major channels such as TV, radio, SMS, video games, etc.

Seriously though, if Americans are exposed to so much content on a daily basis, then is it reasonable to assume that a lot of this content goes in one ear and out the other? How much of this 34GB and 100,000 words makes a long-term, memorable impact? That would be a more interesting objective for a future study, once the white coats figure out the proper methodology.

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Not your data or virtual keys mind you. Over the last week, computer scientists from the University of California San Diego extension demonstrated a program that can duplicate a key with physically owning one, a process named teleduplication.

Stefan Savage, the university professor who acted as project led, summed up the obectives: “We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret. Perhaps this was once a reasonable assumption, but advances in digital imaging and optics have made it easy to duplicate someone’s keys from a distance without them even noticing.”

A scary process no doubt, but one that will probably only affect people who absent-mindedly leave their keys out for everyone to see. And you know no one sensible does that, right?

(image and source from ucsd.edu)

Post from: The Gadget Blog