Bees are, perhaps, the most important creature on Earth. They are responsible for pollinating nearly all of the fruits, vegetables, flowers and trees on the planet. In the United States alone, bees are responsible for pollinating nearly 80% of the food supply. Without the bees, there could likely be no food in a very short …
Every year, over 250,000 are killed due to preventable medical mistakes and errors. It is so huge that this has become the third leading cause of death in the United States. Only heart disease and cancer kill more Americans every year that medical blunders. A recent analysis and study was done at Johns Hopkins University …
Facebook lost the first round in what looks like a long battle with a group of users against the company illegally collecting biometric information. The information, the suit claims, was unlawfully collected through faces posted at Facebook pages. The case was being tried in California and on last Thursday the judge in the case denied …
Twitter announced on Monday that it will deny all access to its data mining service to all United States and world intelligence agencies. Twitter is part owner of a company called Dataminr and it has ordered that company to refuse all requests from intelligence services who seek to randomly sift through tweets. Dataminr has complete …
Derek Westerman of Los Angeles recently set the new Guinness Book of World Records record for the longest time spent playing a video game in virtual reality. He set the record by spending a total of 25 hours and 2 minutes in virtual reality doing a line drawing game. He was all decked out in …
An astonishing 272 million email usernames and passwords were stolen by an unknown Russian hacker this week and sold on the open market. The stolen accounts came from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo email accounts as well as from the largest Russian email provider, Mail.ru. And, what seems even more astonishing, is that this Russian hacker …
Facebook awarded a ten year old boy from Finland $10,000 for uncovering and exploiting a particular bug at their social media site, Instagram. Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and since then has what they refer to as a glitch or bug bounty program. Young Jani, whose last name is not being released …
The National Institutes of Health has given their ethical approval to a Philadelphia based biotech company that is looking to regenerate dead brain cells in patients that have been declared brain dead. The Bioquark company believes that it can use stem cells to resurrect the dead. It will be called the ReAnima project and Bioquark …
Those living in Nerd-dom know very well who the Cosplay girls are. They are seen everywhere there is a comic-con or any other sort of convention featuring the world of science fiction, fantasy, video and role playing games. Cosplay is short for Costume Play and for many decades now people have been dressing up as …
Recent research performed by the Centers for Disease Control and the Pew Charitable Trust has found that antibiotics are being over prescribed and that over 30% are really useless and not needed. It is one of the most intensive and thorough studies ever done on the subject and the results have been published in JAMA. In …