'Revenge porn' takes toll on millions, study shows
It may be a jilted lover looking for payback after a breakup. Or it could be a hacker releasing intimate images of a celebrity.
Security
Dec 13, 2016
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News tagged with attentiveness
Gaps in gender equality may fuel disparities in cognitive achievement
Slight gender variations in attention scores have been well documented, but a new study from Harvard Medical School suggests that these minor gaps widen significantly in places with lower gender equality.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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New guidelines aim to improve understanding of scientific data
Researchers from University of East Anglia (UEA) have produced new guidelines aimed at improving the communication and understanding of scientific data - using knowledge of how the human brain processes visual and written ...
Environment
Nov 28, 2016
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Personnel selection, training could mitigate effects of cognitive lock-up in automation operators
Automation failures have been the cause of such widely reported disasters as the crash of Air France Flight 447 in 2009, with most of the focus placed on deficiencies in the automated system. Although automation does help ...
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2016
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Daring flight removes 2 sick workers from South Pole station (Update 4)
Two people who fell ill while working at the U.S. research station at the South Pole have been evacuated by a small plane that made the daring rescue flight in Antarctica's harsh winter.
Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2016
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New scrolling method promises accelerated skim reading and data recall
The explosion of digital content and data that we take in from screens each day through documents, email chains, web pages and social media flows is enormous and consequently, the rapid comprehension of complex information ...
Software
Apr 13, 2016
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New scrolling technique accelerates skim reading
The amount of data that we take in from screens each day through documents, email chains, web pages and social media flows is enormous. The continuous scrolling technique we typically use to browse this data is, however, ...
Internet
Mar 29, 2016
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Silencing noisy ship propellers
Finnish engineering firm, Wärtsilä, has successfully collaborated with marine engineering researchers at City University London to identify the specific design parameters creating the risk of 'singing propellers'.
Engineering
Mar 14, 2016
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Bosses' right to snoop on staff emails is an invasion of privacy and ignores the way we work
Since Edward Snowden revealed the existence of internet surveillance programmes such as XKeyScore, Prism and Tempora, there have been many discussions of digital snooping and its implications for privacy, freedom and civil ...
Internet
Jan 15, 2016
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New math model represents how mind processes sequential memory, may help understand psychiatric disorders
Try to remember a phone number, and you're using what's called your sequential memory. This kind of memory, in which your mind processes a sequence of numbers, events, or ideas, underlies how people think, perceive, and interact ...
Mathematics
Oct 20, 2015
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