A new study has shed some light on mobile and interactive media’s good, bad and unknown impact on kids.
In the study, Boston University researchers reviewed the many types of interactive media available today and raised important questions regarding their use as educational tools, as well as their potential detrimental role in stunting the development of important tools for self-regulation.
After a convicted pedophile posted comments boasting about his crime on Facebook, the social media platform is set to face an anti-discrimination class action.
The 58-year-old man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail by Tasmania’s Supreme Court for having sex with a girl aged under 17, which is the age of consent in the state, reported News.com.au.
He was freed in March 2013 and remains on the state’s child sex offender list .
After his release, the man gloated about his crime on Facebook by saying that he was the envy of many men across Australia.
A new study has shed some light on mobile and interactive media’s good, bad and unknown impact on kids.
In the study, Boston University researchers reviewed the many types of interactive media available today and raised important questions regarding their use as educational tools, as well as their potential detrimental role in stunting the development of important tools for self-regulation.
A new solar powered bike-cum-car hybrid has recently been developed that is turning many heads on the road.
The egg-shaped machine, which has been named “ELF,” short for Electric, Light and Fun, was the brainchild of inventor and former race car technician Rob Cotter, CEO of Organic Transit, CBS News reported.
The ELF, which combines elements of both a bicycle and a car, was actually a backwards tricycle fueled by a bike pedal and a tiny solar powered motor that can carry passengers and cargo up to 550 pounds.
A group called “Endangered Bodies” along with many activists has launched a campaign to persuade Facebook to remove ” feeling fat ” emoticon option from the list of its status options saying that it “normalizes body shaming”.
According to the Washington Post, the activists said that “fat” is not a feeling adding that the status option can be especially harmful to people with eating disorders.
A number of activists have partnered with Endangered Bodies to post Change.org petitions, asking Facebook to remove “fat” from its list of preloaded feelings.
To better understand why people refuse vaccination, the US researchers have initiated a study that will draw partly on tweets as people tend to freely share their fears and concerns about vaccines on the microblogging site.
In the light of the severity of the current flu seasons, as well as recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses such as measles in the US, the study is expected to help more people, especially younger urban minorities, participate in vaccination efforts.
To better understand why people refuse vaccination, the US researchers have initiated a study that will draw partly on tweets as people tend to freely share their fears and concerns about vaccines on the microblogging site.
In the light of the severity of the current flu seasons, as well as recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses such as measles in the US, the study is expected to help more people, especially younger urban minorities, participate in vaccination efforts.
A team of scientists has observed in detail for the first time the effects of a solar shockwave on the Earth’s radiation belts from the beginning to the end.
The shockwave struck a massive blow to the Earth’s magnetic field, setting off a magnetised sound pulse around the planet on October 8, 2013.
The resulting magnetosonic pulse, lasting just 60 seconds, reverberated through the Earth’s radiation belts, accelerating certain particles to ultrahigh energies.
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean but the Red Planet lost 87 per cent of that water to space, a new study has found.
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The ocean covered a greater portion of the planet’s surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on Earth, researchers said.
An international team of scientists used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, along with instruments at the W M Keck Observatory and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, to monitor the atmosphere of the planet and map out the properties of the water in different parts of Mars’s atmosphere.
A new study has recently revealed that reduced sexual activity could cause a dip in testosterone levels in older men.
A new study from Australia found that in older men, decreased sexual activity and desire, not erectile dysfunction, may cause serum testosterone to decline.
Benjumin Hsu said that over two years, men with declining serum concentrations of testosterone were more likely to develop a significant decrease in their sexual activity and sexual desire.
Astronomers have recently observed an ultrafast star racing out of galaxy at 26m mph.
A team of astronomers, including University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer Eugene Magnier, used the 10-meter Keck II and Pan-STARRS1 telescopes in Hawaii to find a star that breaks the galactic speed record. It travels at about 1,200 kilometers per second (about 2.7 million mph), a speed that will enable the star to escape from the Milky Way galaxy.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has unveiled a new concept tire that can change the heat that it mounts up into energy that can help power an electric car.
According to the Verge, Goodyear unveiled the new product at the Geneva International Auto Show this week.
The tired is called BH03 and Goodyear plans to collect heat into the tire in a number of ways.
The tire will also heat up from the effects of friction as the driver drives down the road. (ANI)
A new study has provided a deeper insight how brain is involved in the process of crucial decision making.
A key part of the brain involved with decision making, the striatum, appears to operate hierarchically – much like a traditional corporation with executives, middle managers and employees, according to researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University in Japan.
At least 46,000 Twitter accounts have been linked to supporters of the Islamic State in late 2014, a research report released in Washington showed.
The study released Thursday by the Brookings Institution found that even though many accounts were suspended by the messaging platform, the numbers remained high.
“From September through December 2014, the authors estimate that at least 46,000 Twitter accounts were used by ISIS supporters, although not all of them were active at the same time,” the report said.
NASA’s spacecraft Dawn entered the orbit of dwarf planet Ceres, become the first spacecraft to do so.
The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000) kilometers from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity at about 4:39 a.m. PST (7:39 a.m. EST) Friday.
Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California received a signal from the spacecraft at 5:36 a.m. PST (8:36 a.m. EST) that Dawn was healthy and thrusting with its ion engine, the indicator Dawn had entered orbit as planned.
Facebook will soon reduce the number of likes every page has wherein likes from accounts that have been deactivated and from accounts owned by people who have died will be removed.
According to the Independent, it is not yet clear as to how many likes will be reduced from each page.
The process of removing likes is due to begin after a few weeks.
Facebook will only remove likes from those accounts that have been manually deactivated, leaving those that have been deactivated as a result of being dormant.
WhatsApp users across the world are being targeted by cyber scammers who are circulating fake messages inviting users to test the new calling feature that fills the phone with dangerous malware.
According to the Daily Star, if users click on the link, they are taken to another website where they are asked to take a survey on behalf of the popular messaging service.
However, the survey forces people to download applications and software that might contain dangerous malware.
WhatsApp has not announced the calling feature officially. However, some users claim to have used it. (ANI)
Sick of the foul stench on the walls due to some people’s disgusted habit of peeing on the walls? Worry not as a now the walls will pee back at them.
Folks from St Pauli, the party quarter of Hamburg, Germany, have come up with an out of the box solution, which makes the wall reflect the pee, and could make the people think twice before relieving themselves on the walls, Discovery News reported.
Walls that take the most abuse were sprayed with Ultra Ever Dry, a hydrophobic coating, which makes any liquids directed onto the surface repel and splash back. Warning signs were posted.
Researchers have presented a new teaching tool called CoWriter that makes a robot play the role of the peer who needs to be taught.
The programme, presented at the Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in Portland, is based on learning by teaching, a recognised principle in pedagogy.
“Essentially, the goal is to provide a tool for teachers that is given a new role in the classroom, that of a student who knows even less than the slowest student in the class,” said Severin Lemaignan from EPFL, Switzerland, one of the authors.
Day three of the e-auction of radio frequency spectrum, or airwaves, with the eight companies in the fray made an offer for Rs.77,000 crore at the end of the 17th round, the government said on Friday.
“Seventeenth round was completed with Rs.77,000 crore commitment today (Friday),” the government said.
It was learnt that on Friday there were six fresh rounds of bidding.
On March 5, at the end of 11th rounds of bidding a total offer of Rs.65,000 crore was made by the telcos.
The Indian space agency is deliberating the ways and means of setting right the glitch in its fourth regional navigation satellite with minimum effort so that it could be launched early, said an official.
The 1,425kg satellite – Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System-IRNSS-1D – was supposed to be launched on March 9 evening by an Indian rocket called Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL).
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on March 4, however, deferred the launch after it found one of the telemetry transmitters in the IRNSS-1D not working properly.
Blackberry has announced that BBM for Android has hit 100 million downloads in the Google Play store since it was launched a year and a half ago.
According to the Verge, the company also said that the BBM stickers have been sent more than a billion times by users.
Blackberry claimed that these numbers show the “tremendous momentum” behind the instant messaging service at the moment.
However, BBM download numbers are not the same as the active users. (ANI)
Scientists have suggested that a drug that treats obesity by controlling appetite, could also help combat anxiety disorders.
Dr. Hsiao-Huei Chen, associate professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa said that not only did they find a new biological pathway that regulates these two conditions, but they also found that they may be amenable to treatment with the same drug.
A new study has demonstrated that a molecule found in some plants can combat weight gain induced by a high-fat diet but only in female mices.
The research has shown that female mice treated with 7,8-DHF could consume a high-fat diet without gaining weight. In the mice, 7,8-DHF could increase energy expenditure by acting on muscle cells, without suppressing appetite.
Emory researchers led by Keqiang Ye, PhD, said that an equivalent diet pill in humans would allow people to maintain a healthy weight, despite a high-fat diet and the pill would burn calories without affecting appetite.
A new study has revealed that a synthetic nasal formulation of the love hormone, called Oxytocin, can help men eat fewer calories.
Oxytocin nasal spray reportedly lowered the number of calories men consumed at a subsequent breakfast whether they were normal weight or overweight.
In addition, the researchers found that oxytocin improved metabolic measures, such as insulin sensitivity, which was the body’s ability to successfully clear glucose (sugar) from the bloodstream.