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| The "Big Breakfast" Trend |  | If any of you still believe that the whole "breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day" theory is false or outdated at best, think again: a recent study comes to confirm what has become the staple of countless weight loss diets in recent decades – namely the belief that a big breakfast followed by a moderately-sized lunch and a frugal dinner is the best way to keep our weight under control and avoid piling on the p ... [read more >>] | | 18 June 2008, 06:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gamers Love Ads |  | It might sound funny at first, but we keep hearing about researches showing that gamers have nothing against in-game ads: actually, we hear this so often that we're tempted to believe it's true, especially having in mind that TV shows kind of got us used ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Rule: Red Beats Blue in Multiplayer |  | Whenever scientists are not conducting researches to prove that video games are bad for one's health, they tend to study some really important things and the results might prove to be really funny, in the end. It is exactly what happened with this lat ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Flip Flops More Dangerous Than High Heels |  | For many of us, flip flops are the perfect summer shoes, and a true blessing for our feet on those dreaded days when the weather is hot and we still have to run errands or just do a lot of walking outside. Light and comfortable, we can easily find a model and color that suit our style and the time of day. However, researchers show that flip flops are not the ideal pair of comfortable shoes we all believe them to be – on the contr ... [read more >>] | | 07 June 2008, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wanted: Women to Eat Lots of Chocolate |  | If you're past the menopause age, are suffering from type two diabetes and have a fondness for chocolate, a team of researchers at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital definitely have the perfect job for you. You will need your GP's approval to embark on this quest, but once you get that, you're safe to do what most of us have been craving for ever since we hit puberty: eat a bar of Belgian chocolate every d ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 12:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Lead Exposure Turns Children into Potential Criminals |  | We read about teen violence almost every day - and by the looks of it, this dramatic phenomenon is not going anywhere soon. We often hear representatives of the authorities complaining that the sources of teen violence are difficult to deal with - broken families, poverty, substance abuse - however, scientists have uncovered that there is one source of violent criminal behavior in teens which could be brought under strict control ... [read more >>] | | 30 May 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Pregnant Women's Diets Can Trigger Child Obesity |  | It's not a secret anymore: modern society is confronted with an epidemics of child obesity and researchers are working round the clock to find ways to deal with the current situation – ways that do not involve double mastectomies in teenage boys or gastric bypass surgery on severely obese teenage girls.
One of the most recent theories about the three-decade rise of childhood obesity is that genetics may also play an impor ... [read more >>] | | 29 May 2008, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Virtual Worlds Are Good for Kids |  | It has been a while since we last talked about the results of a study about video games and how they affect or improve our lives and now is the perfect time for a change because a new research has been conducted and the results might sound a bit str ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 10 Years of Hard Dieting |  | Most women living in modern societies feel the pressure associated with dieting, weight loss and keeping in shape. The truth is, aggressive advertising and contemporary beauty standards tell us that we have to be thin to be successful, which often prompts us to look at ourselves in the mirror very critically and crave the body of a skinny, airbrushed model, the likes of which we get to see every week on the cover of the latest glossy magaz ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 07:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Diabetes Could Be Delayed or Prevented |  | Diabetes is one of the most widespread diseases of the moment, a metabolism disorder that has grown to reflect some of the deepest vices of modern lifestyle. Type two diabetes, which accounts for the vast majority (about 90%) of all diabetes cases, is closely linked with obesity and physical inactivity. At the moment, diabetes affects 246 million adults worldwide and accounts for six per cent of all global deaths – however, docto ... [read more >>] | | 24 May 2008, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Revealed: Atkins Is Better Than the GI Diet |  | Over the years, celebrities have often set the trend in dieting, and where they led, many of us didn't hesitate to follow. Two of the most famous celebrity trends that became instant hits among millions of people around the world were the Atkins and the GI diet. Each of these eating plans had its strengths and weaknesses and the question thus becomes – if one were to choose among the two, which one would be the safest bet? A recent st ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 10:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Aspirin Taken at Night Cuts Back the Risk of Heart Attack |  | Aspirin has long been attributed all sorts of miraculous properties. Ever since the little pills containing acetylsalicylic acid (see if you can say that three times in a row without blinking) entered our lives more than a century ago, their popularity rose and fell depending on the latest medical research that pointed out their strengths, weaknesses and – a rather short while ago as compared to their long existence – their hidden benefits ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Don't Worry about Your Brains, Mobiles Only Fry Users' Hands |  | Ever since mobile phones got popular on the worldwide markets, researchers have been trying to find a link between their emitted radiation and brain cancer conditions. However, given the fact that the achieved results are absolutely irrelevant, anti-mobile phone groups started to pinch other sensitive chords: gonad cancer.
The researchers' explanations would always detail on the fact that, while using the mobile phone, us ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 11:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vertically-Split Keyboards Minimize Wrist Injury Risks |  | Remember the urban myth claiming that computer users are more exposed to repeated strain injury risks? Despite the fact that there were no reports of people suffering from RSI or carpal tunnel conditions in more than 12 years of hardcore computer use, researchers at the Cornell University claim that the myth might be based on a grain of truth.
The research group has been working on an innovative keyboard design, that is allege ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Academic Couple Turns to Apple for 'In-House' Research |  | They got 11 video cameras, 14 state-of-the-art microphones, they built a temperature-controlled data-storage room in their basement, loaded it with 5 Xserves and a 4.4TB Xserve RAID, backup tape drives as well as robotic tape changers. What is all this for, you ask? To capture "practically every waking moment of their son’s first three years" hoping to unravel the mysteries of how children acquire language, ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bamboo Silk Could Be the Textile of the Future |  | You rather associate bamboo with exotic furniture, but the textiles of the future could be bamboo-made. A new research carried out at the Colorado State University and presented at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society shows that bamboo textiles protect against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation, having anti-bacterial properties.
Bamboo clothing is already common in Japan, China, India and other Asian cou ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Sponsors Project Building Computer Simulation of the Brain |  | Microsoft has announced a new initiative designed to offer financial backup to projects that diverge from mainstream academic research. Building a computer simulation of the brain, stem cell manipulation and plate tectonics are just three examples of the research projects the Redmond company is sponsoring via its A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award. Totaling no less than $1 million, the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Re ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Violent Games Actually Make People Relaxed and Less Angry |  | Every now and then some psychologists, scientists or general researchers come up with a study that makes us, the gamers, feel a little bit better and hope that the general game-hating will drop (at least a little). Of course, these types of studies are far less than tho ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rent Your Own Supercomputer for $2.77 per Hour |  | Supercomputing company Interactive Supercomputing has introduced a less than usual service that lets users tap into a supercomputer for a small fee. Since total ownership costs for a machine rigged with hundreds of cores would bring any average user to bankruptcy, buying supercomputing time seems the only acceptable solution for the moment.
The new service, called Star-P On-Demand is primarily targeted at small and mid-sized b ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 04:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World's Highest-Speed Computer Infrastructure, Available on a Network Near You |  | Europe's GEANT, the world's highest-speed computer network is currently linking up with other computer infrastructure in order to create a global research super-network. The statement has been issued by the European Commission at a recent meeting in Brussels.
The GEANT network is a multi-gigabit computer network oriented towards research and education, and currently links some smaller educational networks in the worl ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 11:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blame Video Games for Your Poor Grades! |  | To say it short and begin as no news should, here is the conclusion: video games make you dumb. Loud and clear, that is what some German scientists from Kriminologischen Forschungsinstituts Niedersachsen (KFN) have found out. And, yes, I will always be fascinated by the resul ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 08:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Scientists Prefer Games Consoles |  | It seems that scientists are not only interested in researches that prove how bad video games are for your body, mind and soul. Some of them actually appreciate the video consoles (OK, not the games) and start using their power to conduct very important scientific researches. Yes, ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cisco Will Certify 360,000 New Network Engineers in India |  | Cisco has released a plan to boost the Indian number of networking engineers from about 60,000 as available today to 360,000 within five years. The new engineers will be trained by Cisco and certified on Cisco networking gear and technologies. There have been rumors recently that alleged that Cisco is having financial difficulties and ceased any employments.
According to Cisco representatives, the company has already establish ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Is Breaking Down Core Computing Barriers |  | Having poured over $7 billion in Research and Development in 2007, Microsoft gave a clear indication of its commitment to driving innovation. And the Redmond company is by no means at the end of the road. In fact, as a sign of its increasing focus on R&D, the company announced that its sixth research lab would be opening its doors. With facilities already operating in Redmond, Silicon Valley, Cambridge (England), Beijing (China) and Ba ... [read more >>] | | 04 February 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Researchers’ Work Recognized |  | Working at Yahoo!, which is momentarily the runner up in the most of the competitions it is involved in, can be very frustrating at times, but at least it has satisfactions with a capital S. It’s always good to feel that your work is appreciated and that future generations will have heard of you and what you did.
Yahoo! Inc. announced today that three world-renowned scientists on its payroll have been recognized for their ach ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Girls Don't Like it 3D |  | Yup, that's true (at least, according to yet another study regarding video games) – girls prefer 2D games over the 3D ones. The Georgia Institute of Technology are the ones that conducted this great study that finally proved that size does not matter, looks don't ma ... [read more >>] | | 19 December 2007, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Technology Reaching Out to Mothers |  | I don’t know how it feels like to be a young mother or a mother of any kind, but I bet that if I had been born a girl, I would have been the worst mother ever. Not because I wouldn’t have taken care of my kid or never listen to what he/she would say, but because I would spoil the damn brat with anything he would’ve wanted, thanks to the "I want you to have this/learn this because I never had the opportunity when I was a chil ... [read more >>] | | 26 November 2007, 09:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Social Networking… Not for the Soon to Be Employed |  | According to a report from the Information Commissioner’s Office, as many as 4.5 million young people would rather colleges, universities or potential employers didn’t conduct an internet search on them unless they could first remove content from social networking sites.
After all, who would welcome the opportunity for his possible employer to see him with two M’n’Ms sticking out of his nostrils or with pencils in his ears? I ... [read more >>] | | 23 November 2007, 08:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PS3 Consoles Make One Powerful Human Brain |  | The PlayStation 3 console is not only one of the most advanced gaming devices in the world, but also the perfect tool in the research of robotics. A couple of UCI students used the console to take part in IMB's Cell Broadband Engine Professor University Challenge. The thre ... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| All You Wanted To Know About Site Vulnerabilities |  | Ever wanted to know what vulnerabilities sites have? What can be exploited and how efficient it will be? Well, WhiteHat Security has released a security statistics report on their website for everyone to see. It’s pretty insightful and if you are just a little bit tech-savvy I don’t think you’ll have a problem understanding it.
Hackers will probe the web everyday to see what flaws certain webpages have and how they could expl ... [read more >>] | | 11 October 2007, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Half of US Handset Users Want Better Mobile Internet |  | The Kelsey Group has conducted a study that showed mobile Internet to be a greatly important feature in what they look to receive from their handsets. Almost half of the phone users surveyed said that this will be an important aspect in choosing one device over another when they make their next cellular purchase.
Although ... [read more >>] | | 09 October 2007, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Great Expansion of Mobile Email |  | Almost forty percent of business users in the Nordic region use mobile e-mail when they are away from the office. A recent survey, conducted by Nokia and TeliaSonera, in association with Gallup, showed the great popularity that this service has managed to reach.
The research showed that most mobile email users find this solution to be a highly efficient one for faster and better customer services. The advantages that it brings ... [read more >>] | | 04 October 2007, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cellulars Cause Hearing Loss. Say What?!! |  | From the long list of potential dangers that mobile phones could bring to its frequent users, here comes another one. Cellulars are a strong potential threat to their user's hearing. Old news, perhaps, but there's a new research to prove it.
The annual mee ... [read more >>] | | 01 October 2007, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 100 Million Touchscreen Phones Next Year |  | ABI Research has just revealed the results of a recent study coming from them. It looks like year 2008 will be a great one for boosting the touchscreen handset production. More than 100 million such devices are expected to ship until the end of next year.
Apple& ... [read more >>] | | 28 September 2007, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Mobile Phones Than People in the UK |  | Surprisingly enough, the number of countries where the number of mobile phones surpasses that of people living on that territory is quite large. The UK is at the top of cellular consumption, showing that there is one and a half handsets for each Briton. That must be why finding ... [read more >>] | | 15 September 2007, 02:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Shares Beat Porn in Spam Race! |  | A recent study done by BitDefender experts shows us that spam messages have seriously outnumbered normal mail activity. I guess you have noticed that as well, I know I sure did – out of 10 messages I got, about 6 or 7 were crap.
In the first six months most spam was actually image spam, a fact which only seems natural to me, since it's the most efficient method of them all. As for the content, 75% of spam was stock share ... [read more >>] | | 06 September 2007, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft's Corrupted Blood Plague, Useful for Scientists |  | We all know why gamers play World of Warcraft... It's because the game features a virtual world that allows you to be whoever you want to be and really live a character's virtual life. While many see WoW as a method of social isolation, it turns out that the game can ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2007, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Switching to the iPhone from Regular QWERTY Phones, Incredibly Frustrating |  | The iPhone has undergone a large number of tests since its release. Most of them have been conducted in order to crack it or at least test its weaknesses and demount its mythical status. User Centric's research, although not looking to do this intentionally, also casts a bad light on Apple's handset.
User Centric started their study with the purpose of seeing if texting is a potential problem for new ... [read more >>] | | 17 August 2007, 10:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ericsson Brings New Research and Development Facility in British Midlands |  | Ericsson has just partnered with the British Midlands Development Corporation in order to open a new research and development facility in British Midlands. This comes as one more step forward made by the Swedish company towards expanding their service area and bringing their solutions on a new market.
As part of the new agreement, ... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2007, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola Is the Top Ultra Low Cost Handset Vendor |  | Motorola has just earned the top place in the latest Vendor Matrix top, as ABI Research has concluded in their study results. Nokia has managed to reach only the second place, but is moving up rapidly, with Samsung and LG sharing the place following it.
It is quite surprising to see Motorola at the top of this ranking, as their most successful device has been the RAZR model, a high-end ... [read more >>] | | 10 August 2007, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Research Shows 264 Million Phones Sold This Q2 |  | The end of the second quarter has brought, along with its figures, grounds for drawing the line and making financial comparison between companies' earnings. Results reveal nothing out of the ordinary, but a steady increase in profits, with no sudden changes.
ABI Resear ... [read more >>] | | 07 August 2007, 08:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Takes High-Quality Digital Photography to the Next Level |  | SIGGRAPH 2007 is the stage where Microsoft will unveil a set of research projects designed to take high-quality digital photography to the next level. The Redmond company aims to no less than introduce simplicity in average digital imagery editing scenarios. The Microsoft projects will streamline the way photographers handle digital images. According to the company, research labs from Asia, Cambridge and Redmond will all participate at thi ... [read more >>] | | 06 August 2007, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Major Change at IBM Research |  | Paul Horn, the director of IBM's Research division for 11 years announced that he is retiring and that he will take up a post as academic scientist at the New York University. His successor, John Kelly, is currently IBM's senior vice president of technology and intellectual property.
Horn's work at IBM is stands out by his many technology accomplishments (including the design and construction of Deep Blue, the c ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2007, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Who Will Buy the iPhone? |  | Digital Life America has taken high interest in establishing who the real buyers of Apple's iPhone will turn out to be. They have just made public the results of their research and the information is quite interesting.
As it seems, almost three quarters of the iPhone buyers will be men. This may not come as such a big surprise, considering the fact that the iPhone is rather a high-tech marvel than an ... [read more >>] | | 08 June 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Joins Intel In The Israel Expansion |  | The Mountain View company plans to expand its presence in Israel and opened a new center in Tel Aviv. This is the second research and development center in the country, this latest one having no less than 30 employees. According to Reuters, the office is led by Yossi Matias, algorithms expert and Internet technologies. Last year, the search giant opened a center in Haifa where it currently employees 20 persons. "Alan Eustace ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2007, 10:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Unveils HG Viewer for Multi Gigapixel Pictures |  | Digital images continue to evolve, and as such, Microsoft focused on a project designed to deliver users with unique ways to view and interact with large multi gigapixel panoramic images. HD View is the result of the work from Microsoft research, an image viewer that will take full advantage of graphics hardware in order to enable streamlined panning and zooming of large images. But the fact of the matter is that HD View compensates for im ... [read more >>] | | 25 May 2007, 12:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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