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Study Finds Bots Are Better at Solving Captcha’s Than Humans
A new study has found that captchas designed to block bots are becoming useless and the bots are actually better than humans at cracking Captchas. Bots Better At Cracking Captchas As reported by the Independent, a recent study conducted by scientists at the University of California Irvine, found that automated…
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Survey Finds 1 in 4 Now Plan to Have a Career as a ‘Social Media Influencer’
I am exceptionally grateful that I did not grow up in a world of social media. And in regards to ‘social media influencers’, quite honestly, I find the concept more than a little bizarre. – I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but for those lucky few who seem to…
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New Study Finds NO Notable Links Between Gaming and Mental Wellbeing
Back in 2020, research conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute research suggested that gaming was, overall, good for your mental health. Pooling around 3,000 people, it concluded that people who game on a relatively moderate basis would be more inclined to say that they felt good when asked than people…
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Microsoft Study Finds the Internet Community Might Be Getting Nicer
I don’t think it’s any secret that the general anonymity offered by the internet often results in a number of people saying things online that they’d never say to someone’s face. And if you want any proof of that, just play a couple of rounds of Call of Duty, or,…
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Drones Could Be Used For Organ Transplant Deliveries
Drones Could Be Used For Organ Transplant Deliveries Over the last 5 years, drones have become a very popular toy. This is, in no small part, due to their ease of use and their highly-accessible price structure. With this in mind, the potential for using them as a delivery/postal service…
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Survey Says Loot Boxes ‘Psychologically Similar’ To Gambling
Survey Finds Loot Boxes Are ‘Psychologically Similar’ To Gambling Loot crates in games have certainly been a huge focus of attention over the last year. The matter certainly came to a head when the Belgian government decided that they were a form of gambling. As such a ban was imposed…
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Study Finds People Repress Their Accents With Voice Assistants
Study Finds People Repress Their Accents With Voice Assistants Having recently purchased an Amazon Echo Dot for my home, for the first time in my life it dawned on me that this specific branch of technology was much further ahead than I was prepared for. Like a pensioner using Ceefax,…
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Study Finds It’s Harder To Shutdown a Robot If It Starts Begging
Robots Are Harder To Turn Off If They Beg You Not To Many major technology figures are fairly convinced that one day, the robots are going to rise up and wipe us humans off the planet. At the moment, we might have the upper hand, but a study has found…
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Study Finds That If You Own An iPhone You Are Officially Rich!
Study Finds That If You Own An iPhone You Are Officially Rich! Owning an iPhone is, without a doubt, a bit of a status symbol. While some love the technology others prefer to avoid it like the plague. It seems, however, that owning an iPhone might say more about your…
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A New Video Game Violence Study, Again, Finds No Correlation
New Study Finds Same Old Evidence For Video Games and Violence Following the tragic school shooting in Florida earlier this month, video games again became the focus of attention for violence in children. As a convenient means of scapegoating the industry, Donald Trump decided to put the blame almost entirely…
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Scientists to Live on Volcano for 8 Months To Simulate Martian Mission
Six scientists will be spending the next eight months on a remote Hawaiian volcano as a part of a human-behaviour study for future missions to Mars. The group consisting of four men and two women will live in a dome designed to simulate life on the red planet. Unlike the…
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Online Gaming Can Be Linked To Higher Grades
What we do every day defines a little part of us. From taking five minutes before work to go catch up with the family to avoiding the bus and walking for those ten minutes instead. Many people argue that people’s activity online determines as much about them as their actions…
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Gaming is Now a Popular Pastime Among the Over 50s
There used to be a common misnomer that gaming was a childish exploit designed for a young audience and grown adults are meant to engage in other hobbies as they get older. Of course, this is absolute nonsense and similar comments are never made towards movies, books or other media forms.…
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Privacy Concerns Are Driving People Offline
Constantly we report day after day of one security breach or a privacy concern affecting thousands as companies continue to suffer at the hacks of malware and hackers. If you’ve sometimes felt like you just want to remove yourself from the internet and live offline, you’d be one of many…
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Do You Want Zombies? Scientists Want to Reanimate a Brain!
Remember all those horror films you’ve watched and those games you played where someone made a bad decision and unleashed the zombie apocalypse on the world, I think we may have found the start of ours. When it comes to life, people are often pronounced to have passed when they…
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