Blog Posts by Tori Floyd

As part of Facebook's quarterly report filing, their Form 10-Q revealed that 83 million accounts on its social networking site are actually fake. This includes duplicate profiles, accounts for things that aren't people, spam accounts or just your run-of-the-mill fake person.

That means that out of the 955 million active Facebook accounts, about 8.7 per cent of them are fake. In March, Facebook estimated that only 5-6 per cent of accounts on the site were phony.

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As Mashable points out, for perspective, 83 million is roughly the size of Egypt's population.

Here's how those fake accounts break down:

• 4.8 per cent are duplicate accounts
• 2.4 per cent are user-misclassified accounts, like a business or animal with a personal account instead of a page
• 1.5 per cent are "undesirable" accounts, which is Facebook's fancy word for spam

Facebook continues to work to get rid of these accounts daily. Mashable reports

Clive PalmerWhen entertaining my wildest fantasies about what I would do if I were a billionaire, most of the ideas come from movies; a giant theme park like in Richie Rich was top of my list for years. Clearly, I'm not the only one inspired by Hollywood, as there's one Australian billionaire who might be taking his movie fantasies a step too far.

The Sunshine Coast Daily reports that Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer is considering creating his own dinosaur park using cloned dino DNA, a la 1993's Jurassic Park.

According to the Australian daily, Palmer has been in discussions with the same people who cloned Dolly the sheep to resurrect dinosaurs and use them to populate his new Palmer Resort in Coolum, about 120 km north of Brisbane, Australia.

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The bizarre information is attributed to the same source who told Sunshine Coast Daily about Palmer's plans to build a 20-storey sky needle and a London Eye-style ferris wheel.

A video of a man talking on a cellphone while walking along a subway platform is making its rounds online, highlighting the dangers of talking or texting on the phone while trying to walk:

This "phenomenon," if you will, called "distracted walking" is becoming a real problem for emergency rooms. A new study has shown that emergency room visits have quadrupled in the past seven years as a result of distracted walkers.

About 1,152 people were treated in hospital in 2011 for injuries they got while walking distracted.

As Forbes points out, there's a good chance the number of injuries treated in hospital is a gross underestimation of the number of people who were actually injured in text-and-walk related incidents.

"People forget that very basic lesson that we all learned in kindergarten: look both ways before you cross the street," Joan Lowy of The Associated Press said in an interview.

While we've heard plenty of funny (albeit cringe-worthy) stories of people getting into sticky

There are plenty of sad stories in the tech world these days: RIM continuing to struggle along, sagging iPhone sales ahead of the new release, the declining number of subscribers to AOL's dial-up service…

Wait, what?

Apparently, there are still three million people in the U.S. who continue to pay for AOL's dial-up Internet service. As if that wasn't mind-boggling enough, those three million also generate about one-third of the company's revenue, according to SplatF. They also report that the subscriber losses for the company were less than half of what they were a year ago.

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Ten years ago, AOL was at the height of its glory with 25 million subscribers in the U.S., and while the numbers have dropped dramatically over the years, they seem so have plateaued somewhat in the last two:

Now before you start thinking that Canadians are so much more advanced and all get on the web through broadband or better, consider

Last week we reported UFO sightings across Canada are hitting nearly record-high levels, with almost 1000 sightings in 2011. While none of those were linked to alien activity, it appears that Canadians in some of our country's major urban hubs have a better chance for a close encounter than others.

A grand total of 986 UFO sightings were reported last year, lasting an average of eleven minutes each. As Nadine Bells reports, 11 per cent of them couldn't be explained, leaving some room for the imagination to run wild.

Here's a closer look at the three cities in Canada that had the highest rates of UFOs reported:

Toronto: 34

Torontonians are often accused of thinking their city is the centre of Canada — perhaps the aliens agree. You could chalk up the high number of UFO sightings in Toronto to it being the most populous city in the country, but what's the fun in that?

Locals even claim to have seen UFOs as recently as last week, when Southern Ontario was hit by a major lightning storm.

REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniThe role of social media in this Olympics is unprecedented. Yet while it is offering lots of positive improvements to the coverage, there is one major drawback: All that Twitter usage is actually interfering with television broadcast coverage.

Mashable reports that spectators using Twitter managed to block the times of racers, which are sent via tiny GPS transmitters on the bikes. The BBC blamed the Olympic Broadcasting Service for not getting the information out, but IOC Communications Director Mark Adams says it was all the mobile data being sent that stopped them from getting the necessary information and sending it to the broadcaster.

"From my understanding, One network was oversubscribed, and OBS are trying to spread the load to other providers," said Adams to The Guardian. "We don't want to stop people engaging in this by social media but perhaps they might consider only sending urgent updates."

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If you thought we must be getting close to an official Apple announcement as the rumour mill ramps up, chances are, you're right: various tech blogs are reporting that Apple will be announcing its iPhone 5 and iPad Mini on September 12.

According to an iMore blog post, the tentatively-named iPhone 5 will be unveiled in the early fall, and Apple fans can expect to get in line less than two weeks later for a reported September 21 launch. iMore also reports the long-rumoured iPad Mini, as well as a new iPod Nano, will be unveiled on the same day.

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This report backs up the repeated mention of a "fall event" by Apple during a call with analysts last week, Mashable reports.

It also supports a report from App4Phone.fr,  a French website that pointed last week to a September 21 release date for the iPhone 5.

While CNET mentions that this is still in the rumours stage, it's beginning to look like the rumours are indeed true as more and more

Google has officially announced it is bringing a high-speed fibre-optic network to Kansas City, Missouri, as a pilot of its Google Fiber project.

Google Fiber is Google's first foray into the world of Internet providers. It will offer a fibre-optic broadband network service, providing 'gigabit' speeds, or 1000 mbps. The Associated Press reports that it would be about 100 times faster than a basic cable modem.

Local news stations were on hand to catch all the details at Google's big announcement:

In order to take full advantage of the incredibly fast speeds, users will need to get wired networks, NewScientist reports. Even top-end WiFi networks can only reach about 300 megabits, far from the full speed being offered by Google.

That will only be a problem for people