Archive : Society & Culture

Google said it will donate $ 5 million to encourage journalism. Through its official blog, the search giant said it will donate the value to nonprofit organizations that are working on developing new approaches to journalism in the digital age. The company says it considers fundamental to journalism and democracy to worry about providing new ways to [...]

The sudden death of Michael Jackson made his bereaved fans put into their pockets and transform the most profitable dead celebrity this year, with revenues of $ 275 million, according to a ranking released on Monday by Forbes magazine. Jackson posthumously earned more than the sum of 12 other celebrities from the list. He died on June 25, 2009, and [...]

Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest scientists of the world, warns the human race to survive, we must leave the planet Earth. In an interview to the website Big Think, astrophysicist, author of bestsellers like “The Universe in a Nutshell“, explains that human behavior itself will lead to the need to populate other worlds. He cites the [...]

Many commendable initiatives start tiny, almost unnoticed, but can offer experiences that are capable of changing people’s lives. David Risher, former vice president of Amazon is a founder of Worldreader, philanthropic organization that is betting that digital books are able to influence in education and literacy in developing countries. Risher [...]

People who visit the Museum of Warsaw Uprising can now, with the help of a 3D film, have a more concrete idea of the devastation unleashed in Warsaw by Nazi German forces in World War II. Adolf Hitler brutally suppressed the uprising of 1944, leaving the city before sophisticated and bustling 1.3 million inhabitants to a smoldering shell whose ruins [...]

A survey in the United States revealed data about iPad users in the general population. The tests were meant to show the personality, the demographics and interests of this group of consumers. According to the MyType, which via Facebook polls conducted between March and May with 20 000 people, owners of Apple’s tablet are “rich, well educated [...]

Twitter goes beyond the tweets. Using millions of messages posted to the site, researchers at Northeastern University in Boston, created an application that claims to be able to measure the mood of the United States. People are happier in the morning and early evening, and happiness reaches its peak on Sunday morning and its lowest point in the evening [...]

With about 20% global market share of smartphones, behind only Nokia‘s smartphones now RIM devices are being considered a risk for the security of the United Arab Emirates. According to the regulatory agency for telecommunications in the country, some BlackBerry applications that allow people to make improper use of the device, causing serious [...]

Images of recent events, photos from the archives of Queen Elizabeth 2nd, the Prince of Wales and other members of the monarchy can be accessed by the public from Monday. Over 600 photographs were put into the account of the British monarchy. Other images are available as new events occur. The opening of the Flickr account is following the launch of [...]

Mountain biking is a very popular sport and recently many mountain tourists spots in Europe have opened hotels / stopovers exclusively for bikers. Many cities in Europe have taken bicycling to entirely different level and annual Tour de France bears testimony to the fact that bicycling is a passion for many. Now urban bikers in US too can seek special [...]