News tagged with personality

Related topics: psychological science , psychology , personality traits

Lifebrowser: Data mining gets (really) personal at Microsoft

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft Research is doing research on software that could bring you your own personal data mining center with a touch of Proust for returns. In a recent video, Microsoft scientist Eric Horvitz ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Honey bees study finds that insects have personality too

A new study in Science suggests that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure. The brains of these novelty-seeking bees e ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research suggests apes have human-like personalities

(Phys.org) -- For as long as people have coexisted with other animals, they have debated amongst themselves whether some animals have some of the same personality traits as humans or if it’s just anthropomorphism ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

HP's missteps culminate in loss of 27,000 jobs (Update)

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has quantified the painful price that must be paid for the missteps of her predecessors as she tries to turn around the Silicon Valley pioneer. The bungling will wipe ...

Technology / Business

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A robot learns how to tidy up after you

(Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Forget Segway: Honda introduces new UNI-CUB personal mobility device (w/ Video)

Honda Motor today unveiled the new UNI-CUB personal mobility device. Featuring a compact design and comfortable saddle, UNI-CUB offers the same freedom of movement in all directions that a person enjoys while ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover links between Facebook profiles, personality and job success

(Phys.org) -- Employers commonly examine an applicant's resume, cover letter, references and personality to evaluate how well the potential new employee may perform. Now, the applicant's Facebook profile may play a key role ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microsoft counting down to the end of Windows XP

Microsoft is counting down the days until it is through with the Windows XP operating system for personal computers.

Technology / Software

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (17) | comments 68

Dutch 'flying car' takes to the skies

Is it a flying car or a driving aircraft? Either way, the Personal Air and Land Vehicle, or PAL-V for short, has just proved it can handle the skies as well as the highway, both at up to 180 kilometres (112 ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 8

FTC seeks law to shed more light on data brokers

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission is calling for a new law that would allow people to review the vast amounts of information being collected about them as the Internet, smartphones and other technology make it easier ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

HP combines printer, PC units in turnaround effort

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. is combining its printer and PC divisions as it tries to overcome dragging profits, growing competition and the absence of a focused identity.

Technology / Business

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

A new direction for game controllers: Prototypes tug at thumb tips to enhance video gaming

University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit

The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. John Glenn.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

EU court: Web sites need not check for IP breaches

A European Union court ruled Thursday that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install general filters to prevent the illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Rapunzel, Leonardo and the physics of the ponytail

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research provides the first mathematical understanding of the shape of a ponytail and could have implications for the textile industry, computer animation and personal care products.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast