Too much texting can disconnect couples.
Two researchers who study the societal effects of text messages, Lori Schade and Jonathan Sandberg of Brigham Young University, just released a new study claiming that too much texting can disconnect couples. Their research, published behind a paywall in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, links too much texting to the stripping of nuance from a relationship.
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University of Washington researchers.
The first brain-to-brain communication occurred when a rat pressed a lever, anticipating the tasty reward it’d been trained to expect. An implant in the rat’s brain converted its neural activity into an electronic signal and beamed the impulse to the brain of the second rat, which leaped forward and pressed a lever in its own cage . But rat #2 had never been trained to press the lever. Its movement impulse came not from its own brain, but directly from the brain of rat #1 – despite the fact that the two were separated by thousands of miles.
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German automotive supplier Continental has entered into a collaboration agreement with technology giant IBM.
At the Frankfurt IAA International Auto Show this week, Continental AG and IBM announced a collaboration agreement to jointly develop fully-connected mobile vehicle solutions for car manufacturers around the world.
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Transcendent Endeavors is a company that uses technology to break down communication barriers.
Bill Tan only knew 500 words of English when he arrived in America at 15 years old. That was 500 more words than anyone else in his family knew. The experience inspired him to found Transcendent Endeavors, a company that uses technology to break down communication barriers.
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Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new “ambient backscatter” wireless communication scheme that allows two devices to communicate with each other by reflecting ambient TV and cellular transmissions — batteries not required.
The Internet of Things is nothing simpler than objects being connected to the internet.
Six billion objects in the world will be connected to the internet by 2015. The internet of things is nothing simpler, and more stunning, than objects being connected to the internet. At its most mind-blowing, these objects are learning and adapting to the behavior of the user. (Videos)
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Digital technology is changing both how words and ideas are created and proliferate, and how they are studied.
The fundamental building blocks of language and culture are words and phrases, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life. Words are how we express ideas. Tracing their origin, development, and spread is not just an academic pursuit but a window into a society’s intellectual evolution.
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Experts talk about the future of communication.
Communication plays a role in all information exchanged among living species. Even plants and fungi communicate with each other.
But what sets us humans apart from other living species? It is the speed at which our means of communication develops and innovates. Technology has been helping us to communicate easier, faster and more often. We’re now at a point where we’re “always on” and panic sets in when we temporarily lose the ability to communicate – for example when we lose the data connection our mobile phone.
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The first real-time brain-scanning speller will allow people in an apparent vegetative state (unable to speak or move) to communicate, according to Maastricht University scientists. (video)
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Dogs who were spoken to or who had direct eye contact with a person were more likely to follow that human’s gaze.
Some dogs have the skills of a 6-month-old baby, according to a new report in Current Biology. Man’s best friend not only responds to the words and ministrations of humans, dogs can understand and anticipate the intentions of their people, researchers are reporting.
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Train crash in China
“Our train bumped into something.Our carriage has fallen onto its side. Children are screaming . . . Come to help us please! Come fast!”
These were the words tweeted by a passenger on high-speed train D301 on July 23 that were clearly a cry for help. But these words also initiated a wave of unprecedented “citizen journalism” on China’s Twitter-like micro blogs.
Only 43% of Americans use their smartphone for making calls.
What do most consumers do with their smartphones? Believe it or not, it’s not making phone calls. When using their mobile devices making calls ranks close to the bottom of the top five smart phone uses.
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