70% of smartphones and tablets that break in summer do so as a result of "irresponsible use", according to Energy System.

A recent study by BYU and Google indicates that almost everyone ignores warnings that appear while they are typing, watching videos or uploading files to Internet.

According to a report by Adecco and Infoempleo entitled Labor supply and demand in Spain based on a sample of 613 companies and 2,655 active professionals, 72.3% of Spanish workers believe they earn less than they should and that wages in Spain have been frozen since the beginning of the crisis.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 1.3 billion tons of food are squandered each year worldwide.

Children increasingly feel attracted by social media. According to a survey by the Ministry of the Interior in Spain, one in two Spanish children aged 12 have one or even several accounts on sites such as Facebook or Instagram.

Being capable of turning any piece of information – numbers, documents, sounds, photos, etc. – into a string of zeros and ones and sharing it with the masses thanks to technology is one of the defining traits of the digital era.

Last week, Instagram, the photo and video app rolled out its new ‘Instagram Stories’ tool, that lets users post photos and videos that vanish after 24 hour. The tool stirred quite a bit of controversy upon release, with many users dubbing the app a “Snapchat copycat.”

According to new research published in Scientific Reports, conducted by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hidrology and the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, current levels of concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases are already increasing the air temperature by more than 1.5 ºC in many regions.

Only 28.57% of Spaniards use online banking services while on vacation, the lowest percentage of the 20 countries participating in the barometer elaborated by Finnish online bank Ferratum Bank. The “European Holiday Barometer” study polled 17,630 people aged 25-65 across 19 European countries and Canada.

28% of Spaniards that went through college over the last decade considers that the degree they earned did not help them land a job. Almost the same percentage (30%) says that they would have pursued a different degree. These are some of the key findings of the Spanish National Statistics Institute’s (or INE) Survey on the Labour Market Insertion of University Graduates among 30,000 graduates who completed their studies in 2010.