Milan, Feb 24 (IANS/AKI) In a landmark ruling, an Italian court Wednesday found three Google executives guilty of violating the privacy of an autistic child after abuse by his schoolmates was posted on the Internet.
Judge Oscar Magi in Milan court sentenced the three to a six-month suspended sentence for violating privacy but absolved them of [...]
London, Feb 23 (IANS) Around 10 percent of all adolescents in grades 7-9 are victims of Internet bullying, says a new study.
“Cyber bullying occurs when new technologies such as computers and mobile phones are used to harass or bully somebody. The perpetrators often use SMS, e-mail, chat rooms and Facebook to spread their message,” says [...]
Berlin, Feb 21 (DPA) Waltzing around in a bikini or showing yourself up as a stumbling drunk are not recommended when it comes to internet profiles.
However, it also isn’t necessary to present yourself as a go-getter or someone who is as quiet as a mouse.
Instead, the objective should be “to emphasise your individuality,” Birgit Kimmel [...]
London, Feb 15 (IANS) Researchers have developed a digital technology that enriches real images on a virtual tour through ancient buildings, creating a more vivid experience for the museum visitor.
This digital technology has been highlighted by a recent exhibition in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, where visitors could saunter through historical sites.
A flat screen on [...]
San Francisco, Feb 13 (DPA) Amazon wants to start giving away its Kindle electronic reader to thwart the threat posed by Apple’s new iPad, according to a report Friday by the influential technology site TechCrunch.com.
The report said that Amazon would start by providing the $259 device to subscribers of Amazon Prime, a $79 per year [...]
Washington, Feb 6 (ANI): Biochemists at the Monash University in Australia have found a critical piece in the evolutionary puzzle that explains how life on Earth evolved much earlier in the evolutionary timeline than previously believed.
The team, from the School of Biomedical Sciences, has described the process by which bacteria developed into more complex cells [...]
London, Feb 4 (ANI): A new study has revealed that road accidents can be slashed if cars had an in-built computer system with data on weather and road conditions.
Sony and VTT, Finland’’s top transport-research lab conducted the research.
Nikolaos Georgis of the Sony Technology Center in San Diego, California, said erecting electronic road signs is expensive [...]
London, Feb 3 (ANI): Helicopter-maker Sikorsky is set to build pilotless Black Hawk aircraft.
After the unmanned drone, the aircraft is believed to be the next great aerial innovation for the US armed forces.
The helicopters could be flown by two, one or even no pilots, thereby increasing the number of journeys it could undertake and reducing [...]
London, February 3 (ANI): Reports indicate that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly called the ”big bang machine”, is going to skip medium-energy proton collisions, jumping straight to its maximum energy in 2013, after it finishes collecting lower-energy data and has its circuitry upgraded.
The world’’s biggest particle accelerator, located outside Geneva, Switzerland, has recovered from [...]
Washington, February 3 (ANI): Astronomers, using NASA’’s Hubble Space Telescope, have observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.
Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before.
Asteroid collisions are energetic, with [...]
