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Dec 14, 2012

Why Online Porn May Make You Forget

Though some people find porn entertaining, they don't necessarily remember what they've seen. That's because viewing Internet pornography may interfere with short-term memory, according to new research. The study is the first to examine the influence that processing pornographic pictures has on working memory. The part of the brain responsible...

Jan 3, 2013

Google Executive to Visit North Korea

North Korea remains a closed society where just a handful of elites can use Google on the unrestricted Internet. But that is not stopping Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt from paying a personal visit to the secretive East Asian country. The North Korea trip would mark a first by a...

Jan 14, 2013

30% of Teens Meet Online 'Friends' Offline: Study

Nearly a third of teenage girls have met people offline after becoming online friends, according to a new study. In many cases the identity of that online character was not fully confirmed before the teens set up a real-life meet-up. In addition, one in 10 experienced some form of exploitation...

Jun 5, 2013

Arctic Connections: Broadband Coming to Top of the World

A Norwegian project aims to achieve the ambitious goal of bringing broadband to the Arctic. A broadband network that could transmit large amounts of data over many channels would benefit the oil and gas industries, search-and-rescue operations and shipping traffic communications, among other things. The Norwegian Space Center Telenor and...

Jul 30, 2013

The Internet of Things: A Seamless Network of Everyday Objects

Gone are the days of computers, smartphones and tablets being the only objects able to connect to the Internet. Today, nearly everything around us — from coffee pots and household lights to vending machines and cars — has the ability to be brought online to interact with other machines. This...

Sep 26, 2013

Who Isn't Using the Internet? (Infographic)

A recent poll shows that 15 percent of Americans don't use the Internet at all. (Image credit: by Ross Toro, Infographics Artist) ...

Oct 11, 2013

The 20 Most and Least Wired Countries

A report published Oct. 7 by the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations focusing on information and communication technologies, reveals which countries have the highest percentage of digital natives, or youth ages 15 to 24 who have been using the Internet for five years. Here are the...

Oct 16, 2013

Need for Speed: New Series Explores World's Fastest Things

From building the world's fastest cars, trucks and boats to rooting for Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, humans are obsessed with speed. In the premiere of the new NOVA series Making Stuff, which airs tonight at 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT on PBS, host and technology columnist David Pogue takes viewers...

Oct 21, 2013

Online Dating Game: 1 in 10 Americans Have Tried It

Match.com, eHarmony, Okcupid: People looking for love online have many options. And according to a new Pew survey, about 1 in 10 Americans has tried at least one of these options. Of those, two-thirds have gone on dates with someone they met online and about a quarter have met a...

Nov 8, 2013

Some Americans Log More than 24 Hours Daily on Devices

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 2:30 p.m. PT: The average person in the United States will access 15.5 hours' worth of media a day by 2015, a new report suggests. But that doesn't mean people are sitting in front of screens for all of their waking hours. Much...

Dec 30, 2013

How Safe are Your Online Memories? (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. How many of your cherished memories, and even important work documents, only exist online? Taken together, photo and video sharing sites, blogging and microblogging sites, as well as social media,...

Jan 15, 2014

Who Invented the Internet?

The Internet: You love it; you need it; you can't live without it. But who invented it? No single person invented the Internet. It was the result of years of collaboration during the long history of computers, and included engineers, researchers and scientists. Technology experts cite various government agencies —...

Feb 3, 2014

The Next Pandemic Could Be Downloaded From The Internet (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Last October, scientists in California sequenced the DNA for the “type H” botulinum toxin. One gram of this toxin would be sufficient to kill half a billion people, making it...

Feb 18, 2014

23% in US Use Online Doctor Ratings, Others Don't Trust Them

About a quarter of Americans have used websites that rate physicians, and although some people said the sites helped them pick a doctor, others said they distrust the ratings, according to a new study. Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 U.S. adults in 2012 about their knowledge and use of online...

Mar 6, 2014

Facebook to Purchase Solar-Powered Drone Company

Facebook is in talks to buy a drone company that manufactures ultra-lightweight, solar-powered planes that are designed to fly high above commercial air traffic and can impressively remain aloft for up to five years, according to news reports. The social media site's interest in Titan Aerospace, first reported by TechCrunch,...