Science & Technology
How to boost a woman’s mood
According to a British research, compliments beat sex, shopping and even chocolate when it comes to boosting a woman's mood. Nearly half of 1,056 British...
Men will soon outliving women for the first time as they ditch bad habits
Researchers say men will soon live longer than women for the first time since records began after abandoning their unhealthy, macho lifestyles. Once boys born in 2000...
Pinterest is unexpectedly losing users this month
It seems that the Pinterest bubble has already burst after a meteoric rise in popularity in January and February as the new figures show...
LED light bulb that lasts 20 years goes on sale in US on Earth Day
Prize-winning Philips LED light bulb that lasts for 20 years is going on sale in the US on Sunday - also known as Earth...
More than half a million of people worldwide may lose access to the internet by July, warns FBI
FBI has warned that hundreds of thousands of people worldwide could lose access to the internet by July following a hackers' scam - and...
Urus, the first Lamborghini SUV, to be unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show
Urus, the first Lamborghini SUV, will officially be unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show shortly. The first few photos of the Lamborghini SUV have been...
Hunter Moore sold IsAnyoneUp.com to BullyVille.com
Hunter Moore, owner of controversial blog IsAnyoneUp.com, has closed the website, selling its domain to an anti-bullying group BullyVille.com. IsAnyoneUp.com had been encouraging people to...
Spirituality has a neuropsychological basis, but it is not related to a specific area of the brain
For many years, scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot”, one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality. University of...
Boxun.com, the US-based Chinese-language website covering Bo Xilai scandal, has been hacked
Boxun.com, the US-based Chinese-language website that has reported extensively on the Bo Xilai scandal in China, says it was crippled for several hours by...
Hunter Moore, IsAnyoneUp.com owner, is the internet’s most hated man
26-year-old Hunter Moore's business plan was simple: he got rich by publishing indecent pictures of men and women without their permission. He would encourage visitors...
YouTube lost court battle over video clips in Germany
A German court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube is responsible for the content that users post to the video sharing site and it could...
Persian invaders perished in tsunami during Greece siege
German geologists from Aachen University found evidence that a tsunami recorded by the ancient historian Herodotus did indeed protect a Greek village from Persian...
Social Marketing Automation News: Marketo Acquires Crowd Factory
San Mateo, Calif.– Marketo announced on April 18, 2012 that it has redefined marketing automation with the acquisition of Crowd Factory, Inc., a leading...
Synthetic DNA and RNA molecules give hints about evolution and heredity
Researchers from UK Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and...
Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater
The notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater, say scientists who have mapped in detail the amount and...
XOLO X900, the first Intel-powered smartphone, goes on sale in India
Intel confirms details of the first smartphone to be powered by one of its processors. The XOLO X900, made by the Indian manufacturer Lava, will...
Study of mobile phone calls shows that romantic relationships are driven by women
A British study of mobile phone calls suggests that women call their spouse more than any other person. The situation changes as their daughters become...
Blackmagic Cinema Camera wins IABM Game Changer Award
Unveiled this week at the NAB 2012, Blackmagic Cinema Camera is one of the five winners of the inaugural IABM Game-Changer Awards. The International Association...
An intestinal gel shows promising results in Parkinson’s disease
The treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease may be improved by a gel form of two common Parkinson's medicines, levodopa-carbidopa, delivered through a tube inserted...
Cosmic rays mystery grows deeper
The mystery surrounding the source of cosmic rays, the highest-energy particles known in the Universe, has grown deeper. The cosmic rays can show up with...
CISPA The New US Law That Restricts Our Online Rights
Right now, the US is poised to pass a new law that would permit US agents to spy on almost everything we do online....
“For Dummies” books publisher John Wiley & Sons files copyright lawsuit
John Wiley & Sons, the US publisher of For Dummies guide, is demanding a trial by jury of people accused of copying its books. Papers...
The iPhone 5 could to be shifting from Glass to Liquidmetal
According to Korea's Electric Times Internet, "the next flagship phones of the companies are expected to adopt unprecedented materials for their main bodies, that...
Drinking water may improve students grades
Students who drink water inside the examination hall may improve their grades, a British study of 447 people found. Controlling for ability from previous coursework...
Six in ten articles on Wikipedia contain inaccuracies
A new research has found that up to six in ten articles on Wikipedia contain inaccuracies. The number of factual errors shows just how unreliable...
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