McCain and Kerry are backing a bill that would require companies to seek a person’s permission to share data about him with outsiders.
Sens. John McCain and John Kerry are circulating proposed legislation to create an “online privacy bill of rights,” according to people familiar with the situation, a sign of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry.
Freeze drying is one of the greenest ways to go.
There are a lot of ways to deal with a person’s body after he or she is done using it. Their last remains can be buried, burned, put in trees, or donated to science. But one Swedish company has a different approach to sending people off to their final rewards. Freeze drying. Just like the liquid T-1000 in Terminator 2. It turns out to be one of the greenest ways to go.
Warner Brothers will rent “The Dark Knight” to American users over Facebook for the equivalent of $3 in Facebook’s currency.
Warner Brothers became the first major media company to offer a movie for rent on Facebook, a move that could position the social network to become a force in the digital distribution of movies, rivaling services like Netflix and iTunes.
Continue reading… “Warner Brothers to Offer Movie Rentals on Facebook”
Three years marks the time when relationship stress levels peak.
The “seven-year itch” is now the “three-year glitch” and is the tipping point where couples start to take each other for granted, according to a new survey.
Continue reading… “Three-Year Glitch Replaces the Seven-Year Itch”
Toxins in the banana spider’s venom contain a possible break through for erectile dysfunction.
Next time you spot a spider in your bedroom, don’t panic, as scientists say one of their species may actually help boost a man’s libido.
Researchers claim to have found the happiest man in America. He is Alvin Wong, a 65-year-old, married, Chinese-American, Kosher-observing Jew who lives in Hawaii.
It sets a record for the largest balloon cluster flight, reaching a height of 10,000 feet and floating for about one hour.
In a stunning example of life imitating art, National Geographic just launched, literally, a real life version of the floating house from the movie Up. (Pics)
Almost 26 million people in the United States have diabetes.
Already dubbed America’s “stroke belt,” the southeastern U.S. just earned another dubious distinction as the nation’s “diabetes belt,” government researchers said Tuesday.
Continue reading… “Southeastern U.S. is Nation’s ‘Diabetes Belt’”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38[/youtube]
Can you imagine organizing your daily schedule with a few touches on your bathroom mirror? Chatting with far-away relatives through interactive video on your kitchen counter? Reading a classic novel on a whisper-thin piece of flexible glass?
Continue reading… “Corning’s “A Day Made of Glass” Video – The Future of Specialty Glass”
Intel SSD technology
The future of gaming is more than 60 years old.
Back in the 1950s, researchers started playing around with a technology that would allow them to store data in a form of memory that had no moving parts. While the new tech was destined to be faster and more reliable than the giant discs used in today’s popular hard drives, it was also more expensive.
Continue reading… “The Future of Gaming is in Sixty Year Old Technology”
Study: Three-fifths of people eat their evening meal in front of their computer.
Rise in Britons swapping TV dinners for PC dinners, according to a survey showing how many people eat while using the computer. The study found three-fifths of people had settled down to eat their evening meal in front of a laptop or desktop.
95% of the people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.
Americans aren’t getting enough sleep, and technology may be the culprit.
In the National Sleep Foundation’s 2011 Sleep in America poll, out today, 95% of the 1,508 people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device — such as a TV, computer, video game or cellphone — within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.
Continue reading… “Light-Emitting Technology Affecting Americans’ Sleep”