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Fact: Literally No One Would Pay To Use Twitter

There may be plenty of ways for Twitter to make money, but it doesn’t look like charging membership fees will be one of them: a recent survey showed that zero percent of users would pay for the service. Zilch. None. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zippola. Goose egg. This is fun! Of course, some people will pay…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 26

Huge WHO Cellphones and Cancer Study Ends Up Inconclusive

The World Health Organization studied almost 13,000 cellphone users over the course of 10 years to determine whether or not there’s a link between cellphones and cancer. Their results? Inconclusive! Even after all that time and such a large study, they claim that further research is needed to determine if heavy cell users are in…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 17

TV and Internet Are Turning Teenagers Into Loners

A new study found a direct link between the time teenagers spent staring at screens and their inability to have meaningful relationships with their parents and peers. This study obviously was conducted before that Russian kid blessed us with Chatroulette. You’ve likely been at one end of this debate—either you were a teenage TV zombie…

Health Kyle VanHemert Mar 1

Handheld Cellphone Bans Don’t Reduce Car Crashes After All

According to a study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, hand-held phone bans have no effect on the frequency of car crashes. Wait, what? Now, this seems different from specifically texting while driving, which is demonstrably dangerous. But in the four states the IIHS studied, the implementation of a ban on hand-held phones behind…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 29

Youth of America Spend Half Their Waking Hours Staring at Screens

Or, if you count multitasking—which is just the kind of hysterical, stat-juicing thing you would do if you were running a study like this—nearly 11 hours a day. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for fresh air. Even with out including multitasking hours, the Kaiser Family Foundation study shows that kids these days are…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 20

Does Science Fiction Make Your Workplace A Hostile Environment For Women?

Computer geeks: Tear down those science-fiction posters! Get rid of those Tron lightcycle toys! Your science-fiction bric-a-brac is scaring women away from IT, says a new study. According to The Register: [University of Washington researcher Sapna] Cheryan and her colleagues arranged multiple experiments and surveys among hundreds of non-computing-subjects students at Washington uni. Questionnaires were…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 15

Tasers Are Safer Than Fists and Batons, Less Safe Than Not Beating People Up

A new study by the University of Pennsylvania has found that it’s safer for cops to use tasers to subdue perps than their fists and batons. But safest of all? Using words and patience. The team examined over 24,000 cases where police had used force, including almost 5500 incidents involving a Taser. After controlling for…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 17

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

Further evidence that media’s placating massage fingers mine even the deepest jelly regions of our brains, a new study has claimed to prove the long-thought notion that the type of TV and film exposure during youth drastically affects the color of dreams, even much later into life. In the study, only 4.4 percent of those…

Television John Mahoney Oct 22

Cellphone Use While Pregnant Causes Kids To Go Haywire, Study Says

Pregnant women should probably add cellphones to the list of things they need to avoid, along with alcohol, sushi and cat poo. A giant study that surveyed over 13,000 children found that women who used mobile phones when pregnant were more likely to give birth to kids with behavioral problems. The study, conducted by UCLA…

Tech News Elaine Chow May 18

iCub Baby Robot to Undergo Developmental Training, Still Isn’t a Real Kid

Those spiffing fellows at the University of Plymouth, UK are undertaking a research project involving a baby-bot named iCub, which will see the robot actually learn how to speak. The three-foot high robot will help researchers deduce how language is taught, but the further reaching impact of the study include the prospect of developing humanoid…

Artificial Intelligence Haroon Malik Mar 1

Italian Perv Professor Claims Ultrasound Can Hunt Out the G-Spot

A professor from the University of L’Aquila in Italy says has discovered a clue which may point the way to the fabled G-Spot—or at least prove that some lucky ladies have it, while others don’t. Emmanuele Janini’s findings (he scanned 20 women, 11 who experienced vaginal orgasms and nine who didn’t, with a vaginal ultrasound)…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 21

Robots Entitled to the Same Rights as Humans in the Future?

The wheels are in motion to give robots the same rights that people currently enjoy. Huh? A recent inquiry by the British government suggests that within the next 20 to 50 years robots will be intelligent enough to warrant many of the same rights and benefits that us mere mortals now have. Robots would be…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Dec 21

Fact: Literally No One Would Pay To Use Twitter

Huge WHO Cellphones and Cancer Study Ends Up Inconclusive

TV and Internet Are Turning Teenagers Into Loners

Handheld Cellphone Bans Don’t Reduce Car Crashes After All

Youth of America Spend Half Their Waking Hours Staring at Screens

Does Science Fiction Make Your Workplace A Hostile Environment For Women?

Tasers Are Safer Than Fists and Batons, Less Safe Than Not Beating People Up

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

Cellphone Use While Pregnant Causes Kids To Go Haywire, Study Says

iCub Baby Robot to Undergo Developmental Training, Still Isn’t a Real Kid

Italian Perv Professor Claims Ultrasound Can Hunt Out the G-Spot

Robots Entitled to the Same Rights as Humans in the Future?

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