Tag Archives : Harvard University

Who watched ‘The Social Network‘ should remember Mark Zuckerberg hacking sites for pictures of his colleagues at Harvard for an early prototype of Facebook, in order to evaluate who the most beautiful on the university. Likewise, Zuckerberg did when was young, the creators of Face-to-site Facebook.net ‘scraped’ data and photographs [...]

The irony of life is that anything that is fun to eat is rarely good for you. So if you keep away from a lemon tart because you want to restrict your calorie intake, there is hope for you, as you can now breathe it from Le Whaf. This is a futuristic way of eating but you never know it might just catch on. There are two Whaf machines already operational [...]

The patent office of the United States approved a request made by Facebook to get the rights to the word “face”. To get the trademark, the company responsible for the most popular social network in the world to pay a fee to the entity and a statement that will use the term commercially. The authorization of the patent office gives the exclusive [...]

A study released Thursday in the U.S. suggests that people spend almost half the time wondering who would like to be somewhere else or doing something else, and this perpetual dispersion of mind makes them unhappy. The study followed 2,250 people through their iPhones. An application has been installed for volunteers to ask “how happy they are, [...]

When operating on a global platform, it is of utmost importance that one understands and is sensitive to cultural differences. Online research and talking to locals could be one of the ways, but exploring and sharing foods from different culinary traditions could be an offbeat method to experience other cultures. This is exactly what a few students [...]

It all began in 2004 when three young Americans decided to create a network to contact their colleagues at Harvard University. Mark Zuckerberg and two other students, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moscovitz, designed a platform that was intended to be limited only to the population of the university. But after 6 years, everything changed. After announcing [...]

With more than 500 million users and the reputation of being of the biggest social networks on the Internet, Facebook has fast evolved enormously from an inter college connectivity program run from a basement of the Harvard University to an international entity, with its reach now in just about every part of the world. Recently, Facebook decided that [...]

Google is everywhere, whether it is your desktop, your communications or your web browser, the company has established itself as an indispensable asset for the online masses. Google Toolbar is one of the most downloaded and preferred of all tool bars, due to its effectiveness and high popularity. However, as per Ben Edelman of Harvard University, the [...]

In a remarkable medical and scientific breakthrough, Frank Guenther of the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) among others have reached pivotal point in the field of thoughts to speech technology, where the scientists have successfully interpreted brain wave signals into speech and that too in [...]

The usual thinking about torture is that ‘pain will make the guilty confess.’ A whole new study coming out of Harvard University refutes that all the way around. These researchers are now saying that, contrary to popular belief, ‘the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty.’ The research appears in the Journal of Experimental [...]