Google Trends Reveal Our Sexy Seasons
Sex searches. via Neuroskeptic From the realm of the utterly unsurprising, Neuroskeptic, a blog about neuroscience, clues us in on a study of Google Trends that confirms what anyone who ever hit...
View ArticleComcast and Road Runner Customers Love Uploading Their Stuff to The Pirate Bay
User names of 10 top BitTorrent seeders. (Screengrab) There is no safe way to upload your stuff to The Pirate Bay without taking pains to conceal your IP address. Many who are addicted to torrents know...
View ArticleResearchers Develop ‘Visual Malware’ for Android
Via Gizmodo we have learned of PlaceRaider, the scariest damn Android malware you never want hiding on your cuddly old pal, the full-featured smartphone. Researchers at the US Naval Surface Warfare...
View ArticleLike a Sociopathic Ex, Porn Sites Claim They Did Not Give You Digital STDs
(Photo: 24fix.co.uk) Do you prefer your porn with a side of malware? According to one British researcher, users who visit popular porn sites like PornHub and xHamster have a 42 percent chance of...
View ArticleStudy Finds Online Courses Only Really Serving 10 Percent of Users
Not all students are made alike, but at least in a physical classroom, you can actually observe them. (Photo via Mike Fernwood) Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a relatively young industry,...
View ArticleOkCupid Brags About Manipulating Online Daters in Secret Tests
Joke’s on us. (Photo by MattysFlicks) After all of the furor over Facebook’s invasive experiments on users’ news feeds, other startups running the same plays had to be thinking: “What do we do now?” In...
View ArticleStudy: Your After-Work Electrionics Addition Might Be Making You Feel Bad
Betabeat chills after work. (Photo: Flickr) After a long day in the content factory, there’s nothing better than plopping down on the couch and watch TV until we slip into a deep slumber. That sounds...
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