http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Cloud storage for three of Google's more popular services - Gmail, Google Drive and Google+ - are being combined to give users more control over how they want to use the storage space. http://phys.org/news287811483.html Technology Wed, 15 May 2013 06:10:01 EST news287811483 When Google launched its social networking service, Google Plus, during the summer of 2011, tens of millions of people clamoured to sign up for an account. http://phys.org/news286602066.html Technology Wed, 01 May 2013 04:41:16 EST news286602066 Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. http://phys.org/news284293834.html Technology Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:30:43 EST news284293834 (Phys.org)—The concept of its being a small world after all is now being placed in the scientific context of the wide, wide Web as a small Web after all. According to a physicist, Web pages are actually no greater than 19 clicks apart. Put another way: Everything on the Web is connected by 19 clicks. Put another way? Any two Web pages are no more than 19 clicks apart. How can that be? The paper discussing this, by Albert-László Barabási, has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. http://phys.org/news280549859.html Technology Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:00:01 EST news280549859 (Phys.org)—Mozilla this week took an important step to strengthening and in some cases restoring confidence in Firefox as a class-act browser. The community issued an announcement by Mozilla's Michael Coates, director of security assurance, about Mozilla's latest move to avert plugin plagues. "Mozilla has decided that it's time to take things to the next level by disabling as many automatic plug-in activations as possible," he said, in a January 29 post. http://phys.org/news278790443.html Technology Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:10:01 EST news278790443 The Internet's "superheroes" are rallying to defend online freedom, while taking a page from Hollywood's playbook. http://phys.org/news261929652.html Technology Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:14:26 EST news261929652 Just weeks after adding its millionth Web page, the online biology clearinghouse the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has received a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that will allow it to continue its mission of documenting every living plant and animal species on the globe. http://phys.org/news261125702.html Biology Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:10:01 EST news261125702 Google has agreed to buy the online messaging firm Meebo, a move expanding the Internet giant's capabilities for instant sharing of Web pages using social networks. http://phys.org/news258050244.html Technology Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:37:40 EST news258050244 Worldwide mobile payments are expected to top $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9 percent increase from 2011, a research report said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news257505067.html Technology Tue, 29 May 2012 10:11:16 EST news257505067 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of North Carolina State University researchers are one step closer to creating a workable, affordable full-screen Braille computer display that would allow the blind to scan Web pages in much the same way that sighted people do. http://phys.org/news252126854.html Technology Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:14:30 EST news252126854 The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized. http://phys.org/news248376504.html Chemistry Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:28:32 EST news248376504 The shadowy online hackers group Anonymous blocked access to the websites of the Mexican Senate and the Interior Ministry Friday to protest a proposed law to fine people who violate copyright online. http://phys.org/news246955612.html Technology Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:46:57 EST news246955612 The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take two cases involving three separate incidents involving free speech protection for public school students on the Internet. http://phys.org/news246033221.html Technology Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:33:48 EST news246033221 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Madrid scientists from The Complutense University think they have an algorithm that may impact the nature of the world's leading search engine. In essence, they are saying Hey, world, Google This. "We have found an instance of this class of quantum protocols that outperforms its classical counterpart and may break the classical hierarchy of web pages depending on the topology of the web," say the researchers. http://phys.org/news243104906.html Physics Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:31:02 EST news243104906 Wolfram Alpha, the online search service launched two years ago, now lets inquiring minds in the United States find out what flights happen to be overhead at any given moment. http://phys.org/news240856910.html Technology Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:42:08 EST news240856910 (AP) -- The great thing about using an iPad is that you can tote around a skinny device instead of lugging your laptop. The bad thing is that the iPad's virtual keyboard isn't great for extended typing sessions. It's fine for dashing off emails, but I wouldn't use it to type up this article. http://phys.org/news234635993.html Electronics Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:40:11 EST news234635993 (AP) -- If you have a cellphone with a monthly limit on how much data you can use, here are some tips on what types of phone use will gobble up your precious megabytes: http://phys.org/news229078738.html Technology Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:59:11 EST news229078738 A hacker group was brazenly ramping up its antics as waves of cyberattacks targeting even the US spy agency expose how poorly defended many networks are against Internet marauders. http://phys.org/news227381642.html Technology Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:18:28 EST news227381642 Google, Bing and Yahoo are working together to enable websites to tag content in a way that lets search engines better categorize and prioritize the information in results. http://phys.org/news226253763.html Technology Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:16:16 EST news226253763 In a world where everything from placement in a Google search result to World Cup eligibility depends on ranking and numerical ratings of some kind, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze the algorithms and techniques that underlie such ranking methods in order to ensure fairness, eliminate bias, and tailor them to specific applications. http://phys.org/news225470080.html Other Sciences Tue, 24 May 2011 15:35:04 EST news225470080 Computer security experts warned on Monday that online scammers may seek to exploit the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to spread malware. http://phys.org/news223563960.html Technology Mon, 02 May 2011 14:06:26 EST news223563960 (AP) -- The Verizon iPhone loads Web pages just as fast as AT&T's version of the phone, even though Verizon's network has lower data speeds, a phone testing firm reported Monday. http://phys.org/news218739520.html Technology Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:20:38 EST news218739520 (AP) -- Mediacom Communications Corp., a cable company with more than 800,000 Internet subscribers, has tried something other U.S. Internet service providers have shied away from: It has inserted its own ads into Web pages as its subscribers surfed. http://phys.org/news218393475.html Technology Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:51:33 EST news218393475 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology developed with help from Project Euclid at Cornell University Library makes it possible to display complex mathematics problems on Web pages. http://phys.org/news214036425.html Other Sciences Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:34:08 EST news214036425 In today's wired world, search engines have changed the way people find data, and social searches are making it even easier to find exactly what you're looking for, with a little help from your friends. For example, a recent partnership between Facebook and Microsoft enables Facebook users searching on Microsoft's Bing to see their friends' faces in the search results next to web pages their friends have "liked" and shared online. http://phys.org/news208171962.html Technology Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:32:55 EST news208171962 (AP) -- If Google and Wikipedia were to procreate, their offspring might look something like Blekko, a new search engine with results culled by people, not computer algorithms. http://phys.org/news207848635.html Technology Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:44:26 EST news207848635 (PhysOrg.com) -- How do some Web pages become popular? In a recent study, researchers have analyzed Wikipedia articles and a collection of all the Web pages of Chile to better understand the dynamics of online popularity. They observed that online popularity is characterized not by a gradual accumulation process, but by "bursts" that display many of the same features of critical systems, such as stock market crashes and natural phenomena. They also developed a model that captures these critical features of online popularity. http://phys.org/news206789759.html Physics Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:10:01 EST news206789759 (AP) -- In 1998, a hacker told Congress that he could bring down the Internet in 30 minutes by exploiting a certain flaw that sometimes caused online outages by misdirecting data. In 2003, the Bush administration concluded that fixing this flaw was in the nation's "vital interest." http://phys.org/news192614231.html Technology Sun, 09 May 2010 08:57:50 EST news192614231 Google said Tuesday that fake software security programs rigged to infect computers are a growing online threat with hackers tricking people into installing nefarious code on machines. http://phys.org/news191614788.html Technology Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:40:01 EST news191614788 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research by University of Manchester scientists that could help blind people find their way around the World Wide Web has been given a boost with a £50,000 grant from Google. http://phys.org/news189181904.html Technology Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:10:03 EST news189181904