Four technology and social media titans, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter all recently bowed in agreement with the European Union’s new rules regarding what they continue to refer to as “hate speech”. The EU has declared that these companies must regulate this type of speech and come up with explicit plans for how they will …
A recent research study performed at the University of North Florida suggests that running barefoot will actually improve your memory as opposed to running with shoes on. The researchers focused on what they called working memory and cognitive function. The researchers explained that cognitive functioning working memory tends to be our everyday memory of things. …
The Dutch National Police in the Netherlands have begun to experiment with a way to deal with the increasing number of apparent rogue drones that keep filling the skies everywhere in the world. They have begun training eagles to attack and destroy these rogue drones. A Dutch tech company called Guard From Above has taken …
It seems as if it has become a world wide epidemic. The social media sites, Tumblr and MySpace, have both recently announced that their sites, and customer accounts and passwords, have been successfully attacked by hackers and the damage has been enormous. Combined, the hackers have stolen more than 65 million accounts all containing personal …
It may be one of the most shattering discoveries in the history of science. Research scientists in Japan have recently discovered a bacteria that seems to be using plastic as food. Because plastic has been always thought of as being invincible when it comes to it possibly being destroyed, the findings by the Japanese appear …
Japan has always prided itself on it’s ability to be on the cutting edge of science and technology. If there is a culture that values such advancements, it’s the Japanese. Now, they will attempt to create a technology so revolutionary and so cutting edge that no one will even be able to see it. Japan’s …
Everyone’s trying to go green. Finding answers to energy problems has become a top priority, and many have turned to alternative energy solutions, like solar, tidal, wind and geothermic energy. Renewable energy is king. Some countries, like Germany, have even prided themselves on nearly eliminating their overall dependence on carbon-based energy. Nothing could go wrong now, …
And so it begins… The largest, most powerful and wealthiest electronics manufacturer in the world, Foxconn of China, has fired the first serious volley in what many fear will become an ominous trend in the next few years. The company announced that it has fired 60,000 employees at one of its factories and have …
Technology, more and more, becomes such an ingrained part of our lives that most people rarely give it a second thought. Especially those who are under 50 years old. Technology, it seems is always there and always ready to talk and intrude. As homes become wired and, of course, the web, social media and cell …
The subject of the existence of parallel universes has caused great furor and discussion in many corners especially among the practitioners of science. Many in the world of science believe that such universes do exist but seem just out of our reach. Not everyone, of course, is enamored with science and not everyone takes their …