iPhones account for over 70% of all stolen cellphones on subways and buses.
New York iPhone users beware. The city is in the midst of a crime wave, and police say the problem could get worse, according to recent media reports.
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Have you seen the Apple commercial showing Santa asking the iPhone’s Siri for guidance? Well, it’s not far off the mark. Seventy-five percent of cellphone users around the globe use their phones for text messaging, in wealthy countries as well as poor ones, according to a new study.
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Friends or frenemies
Why do we add and remove friends on Facebook? Research from NM Incite, a Nielsen McKinsey company, reveals that there are innumerable factors that help Facebook users decide to add a friend or cull someone from the fold, though knowing someone in real life is the top reason cited for friend-ing someone (82%) and offensive comments are the main reason someone gets the boot (55%).
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Touch Screen displays are usually associated with layer upon layer of electronic and chemical components. However, researchers have managed to turn regular old paper into a touch screen display using a sensor and color-changing inks. It could mean the beginning of interactive books, paintings, museum displays or even wallpaper.
Kohei Tsuji and Akira Wakita of Keio University in Japan are behind the new touch screen display, which has color-changing inks printed on one side, and conducting pastes painted on the other side to create an electric circuit. The effect is an interactive display that maintains the flexibility of regular paper (video after jump)…
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When it comes to the technologies that will be changing daily life in the years to come nothing focuses your attention on the future like a forecast. Five years in the future, to be exact. IBM’s annual “Five in Five” are thought-provoking, even if they’re occasionally wrong.
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Christmas trees could be to blame for a range of health complaints over the holiday season.
Don’t be too quick to judge those who feel under the weather over the holiday season – rather than seasonal overindulgence, it could be their Christmas tree making them ill.
The arrests are for everything from underage drinking and petty theft to violent crime.
Almost one in three teens and young adults get arrested by age 23 in the U.S., suggests a new study that finds more of them are being booked now than in the 1960s.
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Did you think that quantum physics is complicated? Try the quantum theory of It may help you understand the former or make your brain explode forever. But, if you are a nerd, it will make you smile…
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Alcohol may never look the same again.
This is what champagne looks like through a microscope. About twenty-five years ago, Michael Davidson, a scientist at Florida State University, started putting alcoholic beverages under his microscope and taking beautiful pictures of what he saw. The results are lovely, especially after a few shots…
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Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old woman from Germany, gave up using money 15 years ago and says she’s been much happier ever since.
Heidemarie’s incredible story began 22 years ago, when she, a middle-aged secondary school teacher emerging from a difficult marriage, took her two children and moved to the city of Dortmund, in Germany’s Ruhr area. One of the first things she noticed was the large number of homeless people, and this shocked her so much that she decided to actually do something about it. She had always believed the homeless didn’t need actual money to be accepted back into society, only a chance to empower themselves by making themselves useful, so she opened a Tauschring (swap shop), called “Gib und Nimm” (Give and Take)…
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Apple is the best run company of 2011.
There are many American companies that have done incredibly well this year. A number of companies have posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets.
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Snow shoveling increases risk of having a heart attack.
A new study confirms that snow shoveling really does increase the risk of heart attack. While many people believe this, there has been little actual evidence, according to researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. So they decided to look for proof.
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