To predict the height of crests and the depths of troughs of ocean waves, scientists can turn to the well-known work of German mathematician and scientist Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. The…
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To predict the height of crests and the depths of troughs of ocean waves, scientists can turn to the well-known work of German mathematician and scientist Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. The…
No, not dolphins, not pinball wizards either. Google Flipper is a labs project by search engine giant that will let you flip its news section to display your search results in a magazine…
Mozilla Firefox version 3.5 will be a major new release (it’s due out at the end of June) with a stack of new features. I’ve just started beta testing the latest release candidate (3.5b4) and…
In May, I reported that Russian scientists at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics in Pushchino and the Institute of High-Energy Physics in Protvino, had investigated the…
If you thought email is making geographical distance less important, think again. A new analysis indicates the opposite may be true
The internet has dramatically changed our ability to…
Attempts to design websites suited to men or women are misguided because they rely on social stereotypes, according to a recent study. Rather than focusing on gender, the study’s authors…
Twitter users go green for Iran
In accordance with Iran’s flag, its World Cup qualifying soccer team, and thousands (millions?) of Iranian residents wearing green in opposition to…
Microsoft’s new search engine Bing has parents, educators, and others in a flap because it is easy to switch off safe mode and carry on browsing the seedier side of the internet, with video previews…
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Would it surprise you that 54% of 4.5 million Twitter users in the HubSpot Grader database never sent a status update? Or, that 55% do not follow anyone and 52% have no followers?
HubSpot…
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Cannabis blow back – A highly sensitive new chemical test has allowed European…
