Daily Dispatch: YouTube increases upload length to 15 minutes; Are broadcast signals and your mattress doing you harm?

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Upload limit increases to 15 minutes for all users (Official YouTube Blog)

We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We've heard you, and today we're pleased to announce that we've increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.

Google's Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.29% (TechCrunch)

...Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.29%, with it closest competitor Yahoo taking up just over 0.8% of market share and Microsoft's Bing barely touching even half that, according to recent data from StatCounter as relayed by Pingdom.

Left-Sided Cancer--Should You Blame Your Bed and TV? (The Huffington Post)

...Thus, as we sleep on our coil-spring mattresses, we are in effect sleeping on an antenna that amplifies the intensity of the broadcast FM/TV radiation. Asleep on these antennas, our bodies are exposed to the amplified electromagnetic radiation for a third of our life spans.

X Prize for oil spill solutions (BBC)

...The X Prize foundation said: "The goal of the... challenge is to inspire entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists worldwide to develop innovative, rapidly deployable, and highly efficient methods of capturing crude oil from the ocean surface."

Lighter side: Bear Wrecks Nice Kid's Car, Leaves Gift (Urlesque)

...In fact, a bear trotted out of the woods and into Ben's car, where, after the door slammed shut behind him, "he bumped into the gear shift and put the automatic transmission into neutral, sending the car rolling 125 feet back down a hill," reports The Denver Post.