The popularity of social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace has led students to create idealized versions of themselves for their thousands of friends, say UCLA psychologists.
The researchers have claimed that the youngsters are using their virtual self to explore their emerging identities.
The study, based on small focus groups with a total of 11 women [...]
A high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been proclaimed the world’s fastest supercomputer for science.
The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has been ranked first in the list of the world’s top 500 computers, released at an annual international supercomputing conference in Austin on Tuesday.
“This accomplishment is the culmination [...]
National Geographic is getting into the video game business. Through its for-profit unit National Geographic Ventures, the nonprofit National Geographic Society is set to announce Tuesday that it has created National Geographic Games.
The division’s first game, “Herod’s Lost Tomb,” was developed in-house and is a free download for PC, Mac and the iPhone. After that, [...]
Shares of Yahoo Inc soared 10 percent on Tuesday on hopes that the departure of Jerry Yang, its embattled chief executive, would clear the way for a deal with Microsoft Corp.
Yahoo announced late on Monday that Yang, whose leadership had come under growing criticism from shareholders after he failed to agree to a deal with [...]
An Indian origin physics professor at Clemson has made a major breakthrough in nanotechnology which may lead to nano-scale electromechanical sensors that can read and alert us to toxic chemicals or gases in the air.
In the research, Apparao Rao found that nano-scale cantilevers hold the potential to detect the toxic chemicals or gases in the [...]
The PSP-3000 plays the same games and offers the same media support as the older PSP models, but Sony has upgraded the system with an improved LCD screen and a new built-in microphone.
The LCD is the same size and resolution as older PSP displays, but it has a “wider color gamut and anti-reflection technology,” [...]
Parallels has unleashed the latest version of its desktop virtualization technology for the Mac, which already enables more than 1.5 million users to run Windows, Linux and other operating systems inside Mac OS X. Called Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, the new platform is designed to perform computing tasks at speeds up to 50 percent [...]
There was a time when consumers listened to relatives, friends or neighbours to make purchase decisions. Now, thanks to the Internet, even strangers have become influencers, says new wisdom on changing market practices.
There are many tools to do this, such as a Website recommendation, a voting button, a favourite list. With economic downturn affecting advertisers, [...]
Scientists have successfully tested the tiniest solar cells ever built, which can act as a power source for even tinier microscopic machines for detecting dangerous chemicals and toxins.
In a new study, scientists have shed light on an inch-long array of 20 of these cells, each one about a quarter the size of a lowercase “o” [...]
Apple appears set to turn on over-the-air podcast downloads with the next version of the iPhone software, making it much clearer why it rejected a third-party application that did the same thing.
A German blog called Flo’s Weblog has published screenshots purportedly from the next release of Apple’s iPhone OS, version 2.2. One of the new [...]