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That's the message from participants at the Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona. Andrew Rasiej, the conference founder, says tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube let people organize "to have an impact on the political process and to petition governments...

The first commercial space hotel is expected to open in 2012, according to a plan of the Galactic Suite Space Resort company. If the hotel opens, the Barcelona, Spain-based architects of Galactic Suite say it will cost about 4.4 million...

Is the iPhone set to become the most popular games console around? 7.4 million of the devices were sold worldwide in the last three months alone (helping to boost Apple’s profits to £1bn – up 46 per cent on last...

To reach the conclusion, Almudena S�nchez-Villegas, B.Pharm., Ph.D., of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Clinic of the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and colleagues studied 10,094 healthy Spanish participants who completed an initial questionnaire between 1999 and...

People who follow a Mediterranean-style diet rich in vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains and fish are less likely to become depressed, scientists said on Monday, but the reasons are unclear. Spanish researchers studied 11,000 people and found that those who...

Photo by Adam Buhler Vice president of engineering for Google and KU alumnus Brian McClendon discusses the technology behind Google Earth and Google Maps. McClendon detailed the various software and hardware behind Google's geo products Monday afternoon in the Apollo...

Hotmail, Google and Yahoo! have joined a growing number of email service providers whose users have been duped by hackers into giving over their passwords in phishing attacks. Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into betraying personal details...

Houston, Oct 7 : The first astronaut to tweet from space has passed another social media milestone. Mike Massimino, known as Astro_Mike on Twitter, now shares his daily experiences with more than a million followers on the micro-blogging service. Massimino...

Breast milk saved to give in a bottle should be given to a baby at the same time of day it was expressed, a new study said. Researchers said that the levels of some components of breast milk change over...

Flu tips Summit County Government and Summit School District continue to strongly encourage compliance with the following Summit County Public Health recommendations: * Stay home if you are sick for at least 24 hours after you no longer have a...