When did you last go anywhere without your cell phone? From maps and weather apps to social media platforms, we give consent for our phones to trace our footsteps and behavior. These curated mobility data are often used for personalized advertisements.
A small team of political scientists, statisticians and data scientists from Harvard University, New York University, and Yale University, has found that by switching to a new method to better protect privacy, the U.S. Census Department has introduced factors that reduce accuracy in some cases.
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany found that nearly 90 percent of participants felt sexual stimulation from tickling. For 25 percent, it was enough to cause orgasm.
It’s been close to a year since the world was captivated by the wild saga of the OceanGate submersible that suffered a catastrophic failure while diving to the wreck of the Titanic, and a new study suggests the carbon fiber that was used to construct the craft all but ensured it would meet that tragic […]
A pressure of 3,000 bar is applied to the cold shock protein B of Bacillus subtilis in a small tube in the NMR spectroscopy laboratory at the University of Konstanz. This is roughly three times the water pressure at the deepest point of the ocean. The pressure is so intense that the highly dynamic protein shows structural features that would not be sufficiently visible under normal pressure.
Small imperfections in the thin-walled structure may have become more damaged with every trip the vessel took to visit the Titanic’s final resting place.
A new type of porous material that can store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been developed by a team of scientists jointly led by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Stoners are not as lazy and unmotivated as stereotypes suggest, according to new U of T Scarborough research.
Most people have heard the famous phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Now, Northwestern University researchers have used statistical physics to confirm the theory that underlies this famous axiom. The study, "Proper network randomization is key to assessing social balance," is published in the journal Science Advances.
Dragon's Dogma 2 seemingly has a path-tracing renderer hidden with it, and there's now a mod that lets you turn it on. Now, right out the gate, I should be clear that just because something is in a game doesn't mean that it's cut content. Sometimes certain things just exist as tests, or were just earlier versions of something that still exists. Having said that, earlier this month it was discovered that Dragon's Dogma 2 has a path-tracing feature that gives the game much more realistic...
Google announced that admins can now transfer messages and other data from Slack to Google Chat using a new tool. Workspace admins can also get notifications for Google Meet application load failures.
Microsoft has announced that the current Edge 125 Beta version now has new resource controls that let users specify and control how much RAM the browser can use on their PCs when gaming or working.