“People don’t usually associate sex addiction with women,” says retail manager Crystal, 42. “We’re normally the ones accused of making excuses before the lights go off but with me it’s different. I think about sex all day.”
Yesterday Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna filed dual lawsuits against co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, which Facebook Security claims is an ad network "that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam through misleading and deceptive tactics, including the one known as clickjacking." Clickjacking (a.k.a. likejacking) is a technique that tricks users into clicking on an invisible "Like" button. Naked Security's Graham Cluley explains that this button "follows their mouse across the screen, not realizing that they are recommending the webpage to all of th
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul wants to abolish all income taxes — but he says he’ll have to completely destroy the “welfare system” to do it.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday.
We often see third-party device teardowns but Samsung bucks the trend by showing breakdown of its 5.3-inch Galaxy Note. Those who say Android screens are getting larger mainly because of LTE radio size need to take a closer look at this dissection. I think they're wrong.
In what will likely be a constant back and forth between Apple and Samsung, the iPhone maker has apparently reclaimed the title of the world’s largest smartphone vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011.
Apple has defended its ethical standards after a newspaper reported factories in China rely on child labour, 24 hour days and unsafe conditions to manufacture iPhones, iPads and computers.
Students increasingly go to college as a path toward better jobs, not to pursue particular interests. Researchers found that 85.9 percent of freshmen said they're in college "to be able to get a better job."
One of the ways in which humans determine distance is by estimating the sharpness of an image—closer objects produce a sharp image, while those further away are out of focus. For us, this is a minor additional method of judging distance, but now scientists in Japan have for the first time found an animal that appears to use this method as its primary means of depth perception.
Samsung suffered another reversal in its patent battle with Apple Friday morning, as the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany dismissed the Korean company's second patent complaint related to 3G/UMTS technology. Last week, the same court rejected another similar Samsung complaint about 3G tech.
Some of the messages Twitter is sending about its new policy on censoring tweets in certain countries seem ambiguous at best. Perhaps the biggest piece of confusion for people trying to make sense of yesterday's announcement is Twitter's inclusion of a link with instructions on how to change your country setting. The change would appear to at least temporarily allow some users to read messages banned in their country by overriding the IP-address detection mechanism Twitter uses to assign a country to a user....
On the heels of a record quarterly profit, Apple was slammed in the press yesterday by a lengthy New York Times article highlighting the poor working conditions in the Chinese factories that make Apple products.
The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.
In an interesting twist, it looks like the 360 has clawed back the lead built up by the PS3 due to the holidays in the US. Both the consoles sell 11 million each.
As Polish citizens protested against the new Censorship laws, their politicians expressed their own concerns, in their own way. (I'm sure Chuck Schumer will follow their lead tomorrow)
Symantec has been scrabbling around trying address a security breach from 2006 that came to light recently. But the fact that the company wasn't sure its was hacked in the first place doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Symantec originally said that the worst case scenario was that hackers had...
The largest and most sensitive telescope ever built, the Square Kilometer Array will peer deeper into the universe than ever before, shedding light on some of the universe's greatest mysteries.
If Gmail's ads—especially the new, experimental image ads—are annoying you but you don't want to go all out and install a sledgehammer ad blocker like AdBlock Plus, here are a few ways to keep Gmail ads from infiltrating your inbox.
In the past year astronomers have discovered smaller planets are more numerous and diverse than anyone has expected --"Searing hot planets with iron rain, atmospheres with 1,000 mile an hour winds, planetary systems with two suns, a planet that literally skims the surface of its star once every three months," reports Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University.
Gov. Mitch Daniels got so much wrong in his reply to the president State of the Union address. To really create jobs, it takes a cluster, not just heroes.
Republicans are worried sick about Newt Gingrich's ascendance, while Democrats are tickled pink.Yet no responsible Democrat should be pleased at the prospect that Gingrich could get the GOP nomination.
Heather Patron, of Studio City, California, bought a Toyota Prius and noticed within days that the plastic on her windows was melting. When Toyota told her nothing was wrong with the car, she soon discovered that it was her neighbour's energy-efficient window that was the cause of the melting plastic.
Sometimes you just have to escape from a sticky situation. And when that happens, you need some kind of diversion to confuse people so they won't come after you.
Debating in Tampa, Florida in late-January, while falsely characterizing Newt Gingrich's income from his government consulting work, Mitt Romney denied that Bain did "any work with the government like Medicaid and Medicare". Now we learn that Bain, under Romney's "supervision", purchased and ran the Damon Corporation, who pled guilty to Federal conspiracy charges as a result of tens of millions of dollars in systemic Medicare fraud committed under Romney's and Bain's control.
While internal teams at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all hard at work designing and revising new console hardware, at least one next-generation console manufacturer may implement a way to kill used game sales faster than digital downloads.