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Hello, stranger: the ups and downs of Chatroulette

(AP) -- A new Web sensation called Chatroulette feels like a throwback to the early 1990s, when online chat rooms brimmed with lonely strangers looking for meaningful connections, meaningless sex, or something in between.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo wins round in Oregon nude photo court battle

(AP) -- Yahoo has won a legal battle over removing nude photos that an Oregon woman claimed her boyfriend posted on its Web site without her knowledge or permission.

Technology / Internet

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Psychologists debate social media role in suicide interventions

In her sophomore year at Lake Forest College, Sam Sekulich had reached a breaking point. On top of the pressure she felt from classes and student clubs, she was fighting with her parents and not consistently taking medication ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anonymous, loose-knit group of 'hacktivists'

Anonymous, which briefly knocked the FBI and Justice Department websites offline in retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload, is a shadowy group of international hackers with no central ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

YouTube spends $100 million to redefine TV

On a recent sun-kissed day, a trio of hot names made a pilgrimage to the ninth floor of the Four Seasons Hotel.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Terrorist organizations have shifted Internet activity to social networks

Hackers invading databases is just the tip of the iceberg in online terrorist activity: International terrorist organizations have shifted their Internet activity focus to social networks and today a number of Facebook groups ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Military looks for more 'fear factor' in training simulators

The group of Marines sprang into action and raced into combat position, with weapons aimed, as they assaulted a possible terrorist stronghold. Moments later, they were sipping sodas and chatting with friends about weekend ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Ex-UN climate chief to AP: talks are rudderless

(AP) -- Yvo de Boer said he left his job as the U.N.'s top climate official in frustration 18 months ago, believing the process of negotiating a meaningful climate agreement was failing. His opinion hasn't changed.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 9

The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (23) | comments 42 | with audio podcast feature

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Report: More than half of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities were American citizens

Sixty percent of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities between January 2009 and April 2011 were American citizens, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The study of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

British paper turns readers into newshounds

A British newspaper has thrown open its office doors, let the readers stride in, and invited them to peer over reporters' shoulders -- digitally, at least.

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created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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