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If the communication system fails at Andrews Air Force Base near the nation's capitol, airmen in North Dakota will be ready to take over.
Mexico and the U.S. are creating a trans-border communications network that will help police on both sides fight crime and violence.
While heroic politicians all over America are mandating bicycle helmets, it's still legal to drive 4,000 pounds of steel 60 miles an hour while your brain is turned to the moron setting.
When an ice storm brought down telephone poles and power lines across much of Kentucky, one small-town mayor pulled out his iPhone and began tapping away, posting rapid-fire updates on Facebook to let his constituents know what was going on.
When a computer system that distributes flight plans nationwide came rolling to a halt this week because of a software glitch, so did airplanes on tarmacs from Orlando to Chicago. The ensuing delays drove home just how easily an apparently isolated problem can trigger network-wide disarray in the country's aging air traffic control system.
Apparently, the warning applies to everyone, from college student Danielle Gonzales to Barack Obama’s adviser, Valerie Jarrett: Don’t walk and text at the same time. Gonzales, a 19-year-old sophomore at San Diego State University, admits she’s stumbled more than once while sending texts on the street. “I’ve definitely tripped over things sometimes like the little cracks in the ground,” she said. “I have to remember to look up.”
Israeli jails are using a custom-built computer program to interpret the barks of guard dogs and distinguish warnings of a breakout from everyday woofs, a prisons official said Monday.
The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution — a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves.
The teenage years can be a nightmare for many parents. This is the time they are likely to feel impotent, frustrated, useless and powerless. However, they really don't have to be too painful or unnerving, neither do they even have to happen that way.
AFP: China stifles Obama charismaBEIJING — Something got lost in transit in US President Barack Obama's visit to China -- the charismatic rhetoric and dominance of mass communication that took him from nowhere to the White House.
I’ve come across 13 stories in as many hours on the upcoming demise of e-mail over the next ten years at the hands of social networking sites, texting and instant messaging.
We are all nervous of speaking to strangers, especially those whom we might like or fancy.
Thinking negatively can boost your memorySYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.
Everyone in the world mistakenly believes they are seeing the same reality. In one sense, reality is a static situation but how it appears to us will depend on what we read into it, and that is decided by our individual perception.
Mozilla's Raindrop Looks To Make Your Inbox Personal AgainMozilla Labs, Mozilla's innovation group, has developed a new open-source, experimental email and communication platform called Raindrop.
Like Humans, Plants Fare Better When They're Among "Family"In 2007, Canadian researchers amazed us with the discovery that plants can distinguish whether nearby plants are their siblings —in other words, if they've grown from seeds from the same source.
Beauty Running Dry as Children Take Eyes Off PensThe rise of computers and mobile phones means children are no longer taught the techniques required to write properly. For the Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco, this is a bad thing.
Brain-Computer Interface Allows Person-to-person Communication Through Power Of ThoughtBrain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) can be used for capturing brain signals and translating them into commands that allow humans to control (just by thinking) devices such as computers, robots, rehabilitation technology and virtual reality environments. This experiment goes a step …
Building a better qubit: Combining 6 photons together results in highly robust qubitsA new method for combining six photons together results in a highly robust qubit capable of transporting quantum information over long distances.
In some of my comments, I have hinted that English is not my first language. It actually is Jamaican Creole. I have decided to share some of it with Newsvine.
Speak to the Hand: Why Gen-Y Can't Read Nonverbal CuesMiddle- and high-school students devote an average of nine hours to social networking each week. Add email, blogging, IM, tweets and other digital customs and you realize what kind of hurried, 24/7 communications system young people experience today.
Crash Course: Communicating in Clear EnglishPoor communication costs time and money in wasted meetings, re-writes and unnecessary customer contacts, and can damage your reputation.
Poor communication is the most common complaint by couples (as stated by 68 per cent of couples seeking counselling). Apparently, the average couple talk for only five minutes per day! Yet communication is the most important aspect of a relationship.
Within two weeks of meeting someone in 2007, he proposed.
United We SlangLong before "bling," "24/7" and "hater" became household words, before one got "props" for matching nouns to verbs—long before "Ma" was a girl who was anything but your Ma ....there was slang.
I recently had a conversation with my significant other, and he was explaining the difference between Men & Women.
Get Real! This Is What Sexual Incompatibility Looks LikeAdvice column addressing issues of sexual incompatability in a relationship: what that means, options, what are acceptable and unacceptable ways to deal with the issue, etc.
Recent events have caused the national media to focus on a continuing increase of uncivil public conduct. From the shockingly rude actions of rapper Kanye West at the recent MTV Video Music Awards, to the unconscionable outburst of "You Lie" by Sen.
The Secrets Inside Your Dog's MindHenry the schnoodle just did a remarkable thing. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can.
Web Censoring Widens Across Southeast Asia"Attempts to censor the Internet are spreading to Southeast Asia."
Fifteen minutes is not a long time to assess whether someone likes you or not, but if you are instinctive like me, you can sense almost within the first five minutes how that date is going to turn out, or whether you wish for a second meeting.
Navy dives into social media seaSailors griping about change probably dates back to the days of sailing ships.
In law school they teach you to appreciate issues on all levels, from different viewpoints.
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