The number of Facebook friends you have is correlated to the size of your amygdala, the center used to process the memory of your emotional reactions in your brain, according to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience. The volume of your amydala has been connected to the size of the circle of those you come in contact with even …
Apps & Web
App of the Week: Times Square Ball for iPhone and Android
Someday we’ll all look back on the Great Holiday Blizzard of 2010 and laugh. Some of us more maniacally than others. Those of us trapped in Minnesota until what seems like the end of time, especially.
“You’ll be on the next flight out,” says Delta. “It’s a sure thing,” says Delta. “Nothing we ever tell you is a sure thing,” says …
Twitter Moves To Eradicate All Non-Twitter Twitter Sites
2011 might be the year when Twitter stops being nice and starts being real… Or real litigious, at least. Following September’s request from the company that social community “Twitter Moms” change their name so as to avoid any trademark infringement, Ad Age checked in to find out whether this was the start of a new pro-active regime, …
Joint Venture 105: The Venture Bros. from the Very Beginning
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
Too Much Choice Is Bad For The DVD Industry
Variety is killing DVD sales, if 2010 sales figures are to believed. While sales for Blu-Ray and VoD have “exploded” this year, DVD sales are estimated to have fallen 12% when compared with 2009 numbers, which were already down on previous years. According to the CEO of retailer chain Hastings, John Marmaduke, the problem may have been …
Facebook Forecast 2011: Mobile & E-Commerce, But What About China?
There’s no denying: Facebook had a hell of a year.
From a media standpoint, its copious (and sometimes scandalous) headlines were a dream – even Hollywood agreed. There have been few stories to match Facebook’s, and when they come along, the world seems to pounce. But mistaking the company (or its 26-year-old billionaire CEO) as …
What We’re Looking Forward To in 2011: Comics
We don’t know a lot yet about the comic books due to appear next year–the mainstream publishers tend to play their cards close to the chest until a couple of months before release dates–but a lot of 2011’s big graphic novels have already been announced. Here are some of the ones we’re most excited about.
Takio – Brian Michael Bendis …
Gorillaz Reveal What Apps They Used To Make Their iPad Album
If you’re a huge fan of the virtual band, you’ve probably heard the Gorillaz’s latest album The Fall, which was released on Christmas day. In their recent interview with Billboard, Damon Albarn dished on how he created the album and which apps he used, including Speak It!, SoundyThingie, Mugician, Funx Box Drum Machine, Gliss, AmpliTube …
Behind The Grid: Tron FX Supervisor Explains Your Favorite Scenes
This month’s blockbusting hit Tron: Legacy is something of a cult phenomenon – a phenomenon that glows in the dark. Special effects supervisor Eric Barba was kind enough to talk us through the mind-bending, CGI world of Tron, spilling the secrets behind the magic of our favorite scenes.
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“It all starts with some of the knowledge …
Emanata: What I’m Grateful For in Comics, 2010
I’ve already published my lists of the best serial comic books and graphic novels of this year, but the joys of comics go well beyond the best specific publications. Comics are a publishing category, an aesthetic discipline, a range of intersecting subcultures; they’re also a hobby, and I can’t imagine that there’s a more consistently …
Smartphones Aren’t The Future Of Politics Just Yet, Survey Says
More than a quarter of all Americans use their cellphones to engage in politics, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
The survey, conducted last month, revealed that 71% of American cellphone owners (A group that Pew estimates accounts for 82% of all adult Americans) say they voted in …