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Is Twitter evil?

By Alan Boyle Researchers probing the workings of the brain have found that it takes longer for feelings of social compassion and admiration to register on our neural circuits – and they worry that the rapid-fire effect of texting and tweeting could have...

Second Life strives for a second wind

by Caroline McCarthy After it made headlines last week for yet another executive leaving the company, you’d really think things couldn’t get much worse for virtual world Second Life and its parent company Linden Lab. The marketing hype–it’s the...