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While the effects of fatigue on the decisions people make in a specific situation have been widely studied, the same cannot be said for how groups handle themselves in the same scenarios. In a new study, experts prove that teamwork improves decision-making in nearly all situation.Interestingly, the team behind the ne... |
18 August 2011
10:05 GMT |
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A group of German investigators announces the discovery of a new order of insects that appears to have been the progenitor of modern-day mayflies. However, the researchers also discovered significant differences between the two groups of creatures. Details of the new investigation were published in a special issue on... |
17 August 2011
10:35 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has shown that when it comes to intelligence, the whole is indeed more than the sum of the parts. This is especially true for groups, which display levels of collective intelligence that cannot be explained by adding up the amount of intelli... |
1 October 2010
06:11 GMT |
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As biologists and anthropologists have over the past few years been trying to figure out how is it that crow groups of certain species tolerate birds that appear to be free-loading. Studies have revealed that some members of groups tend to stand around doing nothing to help the community. In other species, when this ... |
2 June 2010
04:07 GMT |
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A group of experts at ETH Zürich, in Switzerland, has recently taken an active interest in understanding how morality and moral behavior occur in relationships and interactions between neighbors. In order to do this, the team applied concepts pertaining to game theory. The conclusions are not exactly intuitive, ... |
7 May 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Designing public spaces that cannot be easily jammed is one of the things that architects and city planners have been trying to do for a long time. However, in spite of turning to crowd physicists and mathematicians for help, they have yet to discover the secrete recipe for making pedestrian flow more smoothly. Simul... |
8 April 2010
06:59 GMT |
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British researchers from the University of Leeds have recently determined that people who tend to act as leaders of their groups do not necessarily appear in the center of the crowd. Rather, they remain at the fringes, exerting different traits. The team says that some of the most important characteristics leaders mu... |
1 April 2010
08:37 GMT |
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Some of the cruelest, most unjust actions that groups of people have performed over the centuries have been attributed by various scientists and their theories to what is known as “group think.” This common psychological phenomenon is used to account for the actions that individuals take while inside the ... |
25 March 2010
05:45 GMT |
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In a new investigation of vervet monkeys, scientists have discovered that the animals appear to prefer the female teachers in their group, when it comes to selecting role models. In carefully-designed lab experiments, these monkeys were observed as learning a new trick only when it was first demonstrated by a female ... |
17 March 2010
05:45 GMT |
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DeviantART itself is an online community, but the new Groups feature will enable users to build and manage their own smaller gatherings, with specific or more of a general theme. Launched as a Beta service, it has already recorded more than 25,000 group registrations in the first four days, with 800,000+ participants... |
15 February 2010
09:40 GMT |
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While for most people helping one another is just the right thing to do, when biologists observe this type of behavior in animal groups, they don't know what to make of it. According to the theory of evolution, all animals should be selfish, bent on satisfying their own selfish desires, and also in a constant st... |
28 May 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Apple has started informing users of its .Mac HomePage app that it would be shutting down the service, as well as the Groups tool, as of July 7. Content that is already published will remain at the current address until the customer's subscription expires.According to Apple, users will no longer be able to creat... |
10 April 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Despite the popular belief that labels the decisions made by large groups of people with traits such as “herd mentality,” “angry mob,” or “mass hysteria,” recent scientific and psychological studies have revealed that larger numbers of individuals actually seem to give more accurat... |
11 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, published in the January 15th issue of the journal Neuron, humans tend to follow the crowd because of an innate mechanism inside their brains, which triggers an alert signal when an individual's opinion diverges from the general one. This signal could be the one that dictates... |
15 January 2009
07:57 GMT |
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Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano were two of the most powerful heads of the Italian Cosa Nostra, the name under which the Mafia was invented all those decades ago. They were jailed last month, and already Facebook started producing groups that glorified the two and demanded their release, or even their sanctificati... |
13 January 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is flexing the social networking muscles of its instant messaging client with the latest release. Windows Live messenger 9.0 (2009) brings to the table a feature dubbed Groups, designed to extend the communication capabilities of the client beyond one-on-one conversations, now helping groups of users talk, ... |
30 December 2008
07:38 GMT |
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In case you're still in contact with a couple of old friends from junior high, or even before that, and you like to reminisce together the good old times, you'll most definitely not want to forget any of them, or mistake their addresses when mailing something to the group. That's where the Google Mail ... |
11 January 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Because AdSense is a Google technology which works with money and is currently used by millions of consumers, it's very important for both clients and company to provide support for most topics of the service. Since AdSense is available in every corner of the world, some of consumers who are not speaking Englis... |
23 October 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Google is now hosting all kinds of spam, no matter we're talking about Gmail messages or unsolicited posts published on Google Groups. First of all, how can you define spam? Dictionary.com sustains spam is an "unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, indi... |
2 October 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Google receives tons of spam every day, no matter if the unsolicited content is delivered to Gmail, Google SERP or Google Groups. But this latest service seems to be the one which is most affected by the spam messages because the users turn to Google Groups in order to find information about a certain service or feat... |
2 October 2007
03:31 GMT |
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The super giant Google works on many sides of its mail technology and today it rolled out an update concerning the Help Center which is now able to provide more results for the users looking for information. Gmail's help manuals were already very rich when it comes to the details offered about the service but no... |
1 October 2007
05:00 GMT |
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets, the main solution that created the search giant's Office suite, gets the first help group since the release of the service. Basically, the help menu is a Google Groups discussion that allows users to post questions or suggestions and receive replies from other members or even from the... |
27 April 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Back in March, Google was really proud of its company after the Internet publications reported the search giant was offline only for 7 minutes since January 1. Although the numbers are quite amazing, it seems like the Mountain View-based company wants to increase the downtime because more and more Google products are... |
25 April 2007
06:44 GMT |
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Google Groups was designed to represent the best alternative to help customers of all the Google products by allowing them to communicate with other users of the services or even with the company's officials. Today, the search giant introduces a new topic created especially for Gmail, the mail solution recently ... |
5 March 2007
06:10 GMT |
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