News tagged with virtual identity

Facebook blocks social network 'suicide' website

Facebook said Monday that it is blocking a website called "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" that helps users delete their social network profiles.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

'Anti-social network' aims to be Facebook killer app

Facebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Identifying ID theft and fraud

If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Study suggests expanding the genetic alphabet may be easier than previously thought

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA—the genetic instructions for living organisms that is composed of four bases (C, G, A and T)—is more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Bronze Age Facebook

(Phys.org) -- Large clusters of rock art spanning thousands of years but located at the same site may hold key to detecting massive cultural changes in prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the north.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

MBARI discovers new deep-sea hydrothermal vents using sonar-mapping robot

“As the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) descended into the blue depths above the Alarcón Rise, the control room was abuzz with anticipation," wrote MBARI geologist Julie Martin in her April 22nd cruise log. "Today we [are] planning to dive on one of the strangest envi ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and struggle for imperial legitimacy in ancient China’s Han Dynasty.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

Translocation risks revealed: Scientists develop techniques to avoid repeat of red squirrel catastrophe

Disastrous disease outbreaks like the one which led to the decimation of the red squirrel in Britain can now be avoided through the implementation of new preventive measures developed by UK scientists.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Assembly errors quickly identified

If errors creep in during the assembly of components, costly post-processing is often the consequence. Automatic testing is difficult, especially where individual products are concerned. Now there is a new ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Raising the prospects for quantum levitation

More than half-a-century ago, the Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrik Casimir calculated that two mirrors placed facing each other in a vacuum would attract. The mysterious force arises from the energy of virtual particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Instagram fans moan over slap in the Facebook

Facebook's $1 billion gobbling up of Instagram has sent disgruntled fans of the quirky photo-sharing app to the delete button.

Technology / Software

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research reveals food ingredients most prone to fraudulent economically motivated adulteration

In new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingred ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover a surprising new way that protons can move among molecules

When a proton – the bare nucleus of a hydrogen atom – transfers from one molecule to another, or moves within a molecule, the result is a hydrogen bond, in which the proton and another atom like ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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