Tecnology

If you use Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other search engine that records your IP address and search terms, there are some things — many things, it turns out — that you really shouldn’t search. Google, for instance, can combine your search history with more data about your identity,...

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Thanks to Japanese engineer Kuniako Saito’s new invention, walking could soon become a thing of the past. He’s created a portable transportation device called ‘WalkCar’, which he describes as the world’s first ‘car in a bag’. The WalkCar is about the...

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The announcement of Google's new holding company, Alphabet, initially led to near-universal bafflement among the tech cognoscenti: why would Google, an industry leader, create such upheaval? The most immediate benefit may simply be that CEO Larry Page, who is stepping away from day-to-day...

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Think your private browsing session is really private? A new paper shows how your smartphone or laptop's battery can be used to compromise your privacy. A HTML5 feature called the Battery Status API lets websites check the status of your device's battery with such precision that it...

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When citizens have easy and constant access to government information, that’s called government transparency. It’s vital for good governance, and citizens’ perception of the government as trustworthy. However, many local governments suffer from a lack of transparency. New...

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People used to be computers. That is, for hundreds of years, computing was the work of humans, and very often women. Then, in the mid-20th century, machines began to take on the bulk of computing work, and the definition of "computer" changed. A computer was no longer just a human...

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If you're a world traveler and you're interested in all the ways women have made the world a better -- or simply more interesting -- place, you'll want to download the Women on the Map app. The new mapping application, available for free through Google's Field Trip, is the...

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The Oatmeal describes the semicolon as “the most feared punctuation on earth.” The University of Wisconsin advises, “Semicolons help you connect closely related ideas when a style mark stronger than a comma is needed. By using semicolons effectively, you can make your writing...

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Facebook has made a few subtle changes to some of its icons, giving its female silhouettes a slightly more prominent position. The Friends and Groups icon previously had the female silhouette in the background. Now, the man and the woman in the Friends icon are pictured side by side. In the...

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With so much online casino and slot machine advertising everywhere you look, players are wondering if they can actually win money playing at these sites, especially those offering convenient mobile phone play. We did some digging and the answer is clearly YES. Some sites are now even regulated...

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While there are plenty of people who love cooking and don’t need their arm twisted to get into the kitchen, after a long day of work, most would much rather pass on the task of fixing dinner. This situation leads a lot of working people and busy stay-at-home parents to opt for take-out food,...

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This is probably the only bus in the world where three won't arrive at the same time, because only one of them exists. London is getting the world's first, purpose-built, purely electric doubledecker bus, mayor Boris Johnson announced this week at the Clean Bus Summit. The new bus,...

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A West Australian company has a robot they say can lay 1,000 bricks per hour and build the frame of an average house in under two days. The robot is still in prototype stage, but Fastbrick Robotics is hoping to bring a commercial machine onto the market within the next couple of years, Mike...

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Dip, data, and now organs — all things that can be found on a chip, though all of different varieties, of course. A new paper published this week in the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine details how a team at the National Institutes of Health created a placenta on a chip, a...

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People’s apparent eagerness to stay connected at all times means we’re seeing more and more folk walking the streets lost in their phones. Well, we would see them if we weren’t staring at our own handsets, right? The thing is, this growing distraction means many smartphone...