Researchers have warned that the addiction that young people have with technology is having a disruptive effect on their learning. The effects of modern gadgets this were seen by pupils with poor spelling, poor levels of concentration, encouraged plagiarism and disrupted lessons. Out of 267 pupils surveyed aged 11 to 18, the report found that [...]
UK Psychologists have found that there is a strong link between depression and heavy use of the internet. According to a study in the journal Psychopathology, 1.2% of people who were surveyed were found to be internet addicts and were also suffering from depression. The team from Leeds university however couldn’t say for definite that [...]
Dick Durbin, a senator from the United States of America has approached 30 technology companies for information in advance of a hearing he has set up on Human Rights practices in China. This comes as Google makes an announcement to stop censoring search results in China as it discovered that their systems had been broken [...]
A whistleblower website called wikileaks has closed operations due to financial problems. The site allows people to publish uncensored information anonymously has now hit money flow crisis. Reports claim that running costs including staff payments stood at £377,00 whilst only being able to raise funds of £81,000. the site became popular due to it’s ability [...]
Twitter have identified a number of ‘torrent’ sites that have been set up on the internet to specially skim usernames and passwords. The sites come across as index of links to TV, film and music files but scammers are then able to use the data to get on to sites such as Twitter as many [...]
