While much has been made about the dangers of texting and driving, less attention has been focused on the age-old distractions of being absent minded or upset while driving. A team of researchers from the University of Houston ...
Other
May 12, 2016
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French authorities have opened an investigation after a teenager allegedly live-streamed video of her suicide on the popular app Periscope.
Internet
May 11, 2016
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Readers like to read texts generated by computers, especially when they are unaware that what they are reading was assembled on the basis of an algorithm. This, at any rate, is the conclusion suggested by the results of an ...
Other
May 3, 2016
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When you add a smiley face to the end of a message, you may be saying more than you realise. Emoticons, faces formed from punctuation symbols such as :-), and emojis, picture symbols, are now common features of the way we ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2016
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Scholars have long debated how much of the Hebrew bible was composed before the destruction of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE. While scholars agree that key biblical texts were written starting in the 7th century ...
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2016
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The phone company would like to sell its customers some video.
Telecom
Apr 6, 2016
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Turns out there's a shadowy global industry devoted to breaking into smartphones and extracting their information. But you've probably never heard of it unless you're a worried parent, a betrayed spouse—or a federal law ...
Security
Mar 24, 2016
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New Stanford research shows that the California Coastal Commission's decision-making process on land use along the Golden State's coast has remained highly consistent for the last two decades.
Environment
Feb 18, 2016
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When the Oxford English Dictionary declared an emoji its 2015 word of the year, it was a bit of a head-scratcher.
Internet
Feb 10, 2016
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A teen girl gets delayed text messages from her boyfriend. She feels a bit anxious and wonders if her partner is cheating.
Social Sciences
Feb 9, 2016
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