Smart phones are changing real world privacy settings
With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging services, smart phones have revolutionized the way we communicate.
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With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging services, smart phones have revolutionized the way we communicate.
Researchers at Harvard have gotten to the bottom of why so many of us are compelled to share our every thought, movement, like and want through mediums like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and Pinterest.
Social network Facebook is allowing its 900 million users to share their organ donor status in an effort to spread awareness.
Penn State astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves were detected.
Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor- an essential factor in the regulation of body fat- which could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia.
Hundreds of thousands of computers will simultaneously lose access to the internet on July 9, unless their owners check for a virus that may have remained hidden for several years
Donald Sadoway’s radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.
Once considered unimportant "junk DNA," scientists have learned that non-coding RNA (ncRNA) — RNA molecules that do not translate into proteins — play a crucial role in cellular function.
The development of more effective cancer drugs could be a step nearer thanks to the discovery, by scientists at Warwick Medical School, of how an inbuilt ‘security check’ operates to guarantee cells divide with the correct number of chromosomes.
James Ball discovered the information Google and Facebook hold on him is disturbing and creepy, but also comforting