If you’re a social media junkie, you likely share plenty of your personal life online already. But are you “checking in” when you have sex?
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Is Your Cell Phone Making You a Jerk?
Cell phones keep us socially connected, but new research suggests they actually reduce users’ social consciousness. In fact, the study showed that cell phone use was linked to more selfish behavior.
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Online Gaming: Is It Hurting Your Marriage?
Role-playing games like World of Warcraft allow players to become buff, sword-yielding warriors online — which helps explain why dedicated gamers can while away hours in front of their computer screens. But a new study shows …
Is Your Online Date a Liar? Research Reveals Ways to Tell
How do you really know if the person at the other end of that online profile you’re browsing is genuine or some lying creep? There’s no easy ruleset (there never is), but a new study found there are several fascinating …
CareZone, a Private Service for People Who Take Care of People
Jonathan Schwartz was the last CEO of once-mighty Sun Microsystems before it was swallowed up by Oracle in 2010. Now he’s back with a new startup in an entirely different line of business than Sun. It’s called CareZone, and it’s …
NASA to Create High-Tech Space Harpoon for Science, Awesomeness
It’s the news that the world has been waiting for since man first considered the possibility of the space whale–and a development that will make you proud of the minds at NASA in a whole new way once more. Scientists at the …
Nokia Outfits Man’s Prosthetic Arm with a Smartphone Dock
Britain’s Trevor Prideaux liked smartphones but found he had a problem—born without a left arm, touchscreens were hard to use one-handed. Luckily Nokia stepped in and worked with medical professionals at the Exeter Mobility Centre to design a specially fitted prosthetic arm with a dock that houses his Nokia C7 perfectly.
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Sickweather Offers Forecasts for the Good of Your Health
The current change of the seasons means many things: Shorter days, the return of pumpkin spice lattes to your coffee shop and, of course, worries that the tickle in your throat may, in fact, be a sign of some terrible disease that’s just about to envelop your very being and make death itself seem like a tempting alternative. But if, like …
Do We Really Care About Steve Jobs?
I was on my way to dinner last night when I read the news that Steve Jobs was resigning from his position as Apple’s CEO on Twitter. I don’t remember who said it first, exactly, but soon my stream was flooded with reports, rumors and retweets discussing his transition to Executive Chairman. Facebook? Essentially said the same thing.
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Report: Watching Television Reduces Your Lifespan Greatly
Turns out, your mother wasn’t entirely wrong: Scientists in Australia are reporting that sitting and watching television too much may not be the death of you, but it’ll definitely shorten your lifespan.
A report from the School of Population Health in the University of Queensland published recently in the British Journal of Sports …
Gamer’s Death Linked to ‘Marathon Session on His Xbox’
Warning: Xbox can kill.
Well, that’s not entirely true. While in this particular case, an Xbox was connected to the death of 20-year-old British student Chris Staniforth, the real cause was closer to a lack of perspective.
A post-mortem exam on Staniforth revealed that he died because of a pulmonary embolism brought on by a …
Ask Techland: Best Methods for No-Touch Cellphone Use
The recent World Health Organization report saying that cell phone radiation is “possibly carcinogenic” has caused a bit of a stir.
On one end of the spectrum, the report itself categorizes cell phones alongside DDT and car exhaust in terms of potential risk while on the other end, the wireless association, CTIA, says that the …