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For jealous partners it could be the ultimate app -allowing you to see everything your partner does on their phone. The mCouple app shows text messages, contacts, call history, and Facebook messages in real time. It can even show you the GPS co-ordinates of the phone, allowing you to see exactly where your partner is […]
It has been hailed as the death of spelling and punctuation. But in fact texting does not affect students’ grammar and spelling, a new study has found. Researchers claim there is no evidence to suggest youngsters using textspeak – where young people miss punctuation and shorten words in messages – affected their understanding of English.
Facebook’s attempt to manipulate its users during a psychological study was “poorly communicated”, the social media giant’s chief operating officer said on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Facebook conducted a study during one week in 2012 to test how lowering the number of positive or negative posts in news feeds could prompt users
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A Swedish tech start-up has launched an app for Apple devices that lets people take photos of themselves without having to touch their screens. Using touch-less technology which it says is ideal for taking “selfies” or “groupies”, Crunchfish’s GoCam app lets users trigger photos or videos from a distance with just hand gestures. Photos can
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Teens who send more than 100 texts a day are more likely to be sexually active, researchers have claimed. They also say that teens who ‘sext’ are six times more likely to be having sex. The first major study into sexting said there were ‘clear links’ between sexting and risky behaviour. The latest research, published
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Facebook is facing a storm of protest after admitting manipulating users’ emotions in a ‘disturbing’ experiment. It modified hundreds of thousands of users’ accounts by adding or deleting ‘positive emotional content’ to see if it could make them happier or sadder – without telling them what it was doing. Researchers from Cornell University and the
Facebook’s self-destructing message service is now available internationally, just a week after officially launching in the U.S. Called Slingshot, it is designed to appeal to fans of Snapchat and other messaging apps that let people send self-destructing messages to friends. However, the app adds a novel twist, as users cannot see a friend’s picture until
For those who complain that teens spend too much time in front of their phones, for one talented 17-year-old, the time was well spent. Marcel Fernandes Filho recently broke a Guinness World Record becoming the fastest texter using a smartphone. In just 18.19 seconds, the Brazilian teen typed out the following 25-word message on a
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Experts have warned that the obsession with recording and sharing every moment could be having an adverse effect on our memories. One psychologist has claimed people are becoming increasingly unable to live in the moment. They say the phenomenon is ‘kind of a loss’. Maryanne Garry, a psychology professor at the Victoria University of Wellington
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Classroom walls are traditionally covered in maps, drawings and paintings. However, researchers have found that the colourful covering could actually be distracting pupils. The key to learning effectively, they found, was clear walls. ‘Young children spend a lot of time — usually the whole day — in the same classroom, and we have shown that
