11-07-30 The personal computer has overtaken the family dog as man's best friend, according to a study. 最新研究表明，个人电脑已取代宠物狗，成为人类最好的朋友。 Researchers found that just 6 per cent of us believe that 'most people rely more on their dog tha...

11-07-14 Singapore's economic growth stalled in the second quarter as manufacturing activity in the country plunged. 新加坡制造业不景气导致第二季度经济增长缓慢。 As economies in the region try to rein in growth demand for goods has been slowing down Growth w...

11-07-13 Computers are great at treating words as data: Word-processing programs let you rearrange and format text however you like, and search engines can quickly find a word anywhere on the Web. But what would it mean for a computer to actually understand...

11-07-10 Anybody with an Internet connection and a computer can now become a cewebrity . A cewebrity is somebody who is only, or perhaps mostly famous through their presence on the Internet, an Internet personality who crosses over to the mainstream. A web c...

11-04-26 Researchers at Queen's University have found a strong association between computer and Internet use in adolescents and engagement in multiple-risk behaviours (MRB), including illicit（违法的） drug use, drunkenness and unprotected sex. This research...

11-04-17 And so the idea of a smart grid is, if you can hook up a national electricity grid that is state of the art and it has switches and computer monitors that are able to help regulate the flow of electricity to the places that need it when they need it...

11-03-04 The long-time practice of using police facial sketches to nab（捉住，逮捕） criminals has been, at best, an inexact art. But the process may soon be a little more exact thanks to the work of some Michigan State University researchers. A team led by...

11-01-27 The operating system (OS) is the backbone of your computer. If the OS is compromised（妥协，连累） , attackers can take over your computer or crash it. Now researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an efficient system that utiliz...

11-01-20 It is possible to construct a three-dimensional, 3D, face from flat 2D images, according to research published in the International Journal of Biometrics（生物统计学） this month. The discovery could be used for biometrics in security applications o...

11-01-19 在现实生活中，学理工出身的男士的确不少，却经常因为没有生活情趣或者不懂制造浪漫而被女朋友埋怨。不过，在近几年，这个趋势好像有点逆转了。理工男似乎在一夜之间成为了万千女性追逐的目标。他们到底有哪些特征呢？ Science geek refers to a group of highly intel...