Rats are intelligent, that's a well-known fact. But U.S. scientists stated Tuesday a sequence of tests have demonstrated they may be just as good as humans at keeping up with information in order to make the best decision.

The finding could enable researchers to better comprehend how the brain works in order to help people with autism who have problems handling various stimuli the way that others can, reported the study authors. Continue Reading...

Twitter on Monday declared that it has acquired mobile blogging startup Posterous and will place engineers behind the popular "lifestreaming" service to work on special projects.

"This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the Web and mobile devices simple -- a goal we share," San Francisco-based Twitter said in a blog post. Continue Reading...

To Do:

Submit your site to Localeze

Why?

Localeze is a service that syndicates local business listings to major local search engines and databases. By listing a website with Localeze, it will then be distributed to many local search engines and databases that are syndicated by Localeze. Continue Reading...

Google usually gives lots of weight for websites populated with images, videos and graphics. Many publishers and webmasters take advantage of this through building back links to their monetized websites or blogs by using infographics and other graphical media. Continue Reading...

The biggest space weather storm in five years is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to disrupt power grids, GPS systems, satellites and airline flights, experts say.

The brunt of the storm is expected to strike early Thursday and last through Friday, possibly garbling some of Earthlings' most prized gadgets but also giving viewers in parts of Central Asia a prime look at the aurora borealis, or northern lights, when darkness falls on Thursday. Continue Reading...

Whether in the bath, the toilet or in the car, you need never be separated for an instant from your beloved tablet computer with a range of innovations showcased at this year's CeBIT tech fair.

Tablet computers are undoubtedly all the rage at this year's show, the world's biggest IT fair, with hangar-sized halls filled with the latest in ultra-light, ultra-fast and ultra-cool products from around the world. Continue Reading...

A robot caricaturist that can draw an accurate likeness of its subject in just three minutes was wowing the crowds on Wednesday at the world's biggest IT fair, but not every customer was satisfied.

The robot, designed by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, takes a black-and-white picture of the subject, its computer brain then calculates the contrasts and contours of the face and it sketches what it "sees". Continue Reading...