The average phone user unlocks their device 63 times a day, for 2 hours 49 minutes each time – a minimum of three hours a day. And in a move that might seem counter-intuitive, a Berlin-based psychologist has developed an app to help wean us off our gadgets. Called Offtime, it limits which apps can
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Google’s secretive artificial intelligence researchers have revealed a computer that they hope will one day be able to program itself. Developers at Google’s secretive DeepMind start-up, which it bought for $400 million earlier this year, are attempting to mimic some of the properties of the human brain’s short-term working memory. By combining the way ordinary
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Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat, has announced the 2014 Flash Fiction Prize category of the Etisalat Prize for literature. This award category which is in line with the company’s goal of inspiring and encouraging creativity is designed to celebrate the short form of storytelling. According to the Director, Brands and Communication of Etisalat Nigeria,
(By Julia Schemmer) In 2012, I launched an organization that changed my life forever, called The Face of Cancer. At that time, I was 15 years old and unprepared for the adventure it would take me on. This article was not written with the intention of promoting The Face of Cancer, though you can visit
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We all love staying connected. What’s a dude gotta do when he’s attached to his phone like almost 24/7 answering texts, tweets, commenting of Facebook posts and what have you? We just can’t help but stay connected, except when it almost gets us killed. I can remember the other time I was doing some stuff
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A secondary school student filed a lawsuit against her school because she received an “F” grade after being caught cheating, according to court documents filed in Washington. Worldwideweirdnews reports that the Lindbergh High School student of Renton, wants the failing grade on her chemistry exam withdrawn despite being caught cheating. She claims that she was
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Facebook has launched a new ‘messageboard’ app allowing people to set up online chat rooms. Called Rooms, it is designed to reignite the online messageboard chat of the early internet. Unlike Facebook, it does not require people to use their real name. ‘One of the magical things about the early days of the web was
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Fact One Earth is the only planet in the Solar System to have water in its three states of matter: as a solid (ice), a liquid (sea, rain, etc.) and as a gas (clouds). Water is, of course, the most important liquid for life. Fact Two Earth is almost five billion years old, although life
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Arsene Wenger celebrated his 65th birthday with a vital Champions League win as Arsenal scored twice in the final two minutes to beat Anderlecht. After a dire first half, the Belgian champions looked set to ruin Wenger’s day when Honduras winger Andy Najar headed in Dennis Praet’s cross. But left-back Kieran Gibbs’s volley at the
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Wow! Maths teachers will definitely hate this. A new app can solve any equation it sees – allowing students to cheat in class or when doing their homework. To use the PhotoMath app, developed in Croatia, users simply point the phone’s cameras at the formula – and the answer almost instantly appears on screen. ‘It