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In the wake ofsurgingelectric vehicle (EV) sales in China, it might seem that the Chinese market has already won the “EV race” – meaning the race to secure global dominance of this new technology. But this judgment seems premature. Most commentary focuses onChinese strengthsin EV technology and production, or the size of China’s EV market. But this misses crucial factors that will affect how, and even whether, China’s EVs are adopted across the world....

I have been popularizing quantum physics, my area of research, for many years now. The general public finds the topic fascinating and covers of books and magazines often draw on its mystery. A number of misconceptions have arisen in this area of physics and my purpose here is to look at the facts to debunk seven of these myths. Don’t worry, you don’t need to know much about quantum physics to read this article....

Some people might say that statistics are like mini-skirts: they give good ideas, but hide the most important thing. What nonsense though, statistics, data, hard numbers…whatever you want to call it, are what give businesses and marketers the world over insight into the efficacy of all their hard work. With that in mind, Google has announced a new site calledThink Insights, which aims to arm online marketers with all the juicy data they need to make informed decisions....

Journalist Doug Sovern is writing a novel, one tweet at a time. EntitledTweetHeart Novel, it’s the story of a young woman living on the streets of Berkeley, California. Sovern based the character on a woman he knew in real life, who was homeless and struggling with substance abuse. Thinking about how social networking may have affected her life, and her interactions with people around her, Sovern decided to turn this into a story....

Typing is one of the most common things we do on our mobile phones. A recent survey suggests that Millennials spend48 minuteseach day texting, while boomers spend 30 minutes. Since the advent of mobile phones, the way we text has changed. We’ve seen the introduction of autocorrect, which corrects errors as we type, and word prediction (often called predictive text), which predicts the next word we want to type and allows us to select it above the keyboard....