Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has become the talk of hundreds of conversations. How could a plane with hundreds of passengers disappear mid-flight? What has happened? Will it be possible to find the black box? The aeronautical engineer and professor of the Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering of the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), Manuel Soler Arnedo, answers all these questions. In fact, his lines of research are aimed at optimizing the trajectories of aircraft, air navigation and air traffic management.
What was your first tweet? Sure you have asked yourself many times but you have never had the time to see it or the necessary curiosity to start investigating. Well, Twitter has just launched a tool with which you can find out. And not just yours, but that of any user who uses the platform, be it Barak Obama, Cameron Díaz, Shakira, Cristiano Ronaldo or even one of its founders, Jack Dorsey. Eight springs chirping.
Human beings create impressions almost instantly from strangers; in a similar way it happens with the world of internet and, in this specific case, of the social network Facebook. Thanks to a recent study, we now know that the more popular you are on the social network, the more attractive they see you, producing a very clear cause-effect relationship. The results will be published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
The expectation was maximum yesterday before the appearance of Mark Zukerberg on the stage of the Mobile World Congress 2014, and it certainly did not disappoint. The founder of Facebook spoke about Whatasapp, about privacy but, above all, about his vital objective right now: to connect the planet.Answering the questions that journalist David Kirkpatrick was asking him, Zuckerberg had to begin his speech by convincing the public that the 19 million dollars spent on the purchase of WhatsApp was a good investment: "I think it is a good acquisition, that it fits perfectly into Facebook's strategy and that we have paid the value that the company really has."
Being connected to our Twitter and Facebook profiles at all times makes us seem smarter, but it actually undermines our intellectual abilities, according to a new study published by the Royal Society.
Although it seems that it was yesterday when the most important social network in the world was born, it has been 10 years since Mark Zuckerberg launched his new Facebook at Harvard University on February 4, 2004. We review this decade of existence.
As every year the largest search engine in the world has released, shortly after 2013, its particular Zeitgeist. Or what is the same, a series of lists that show the most searched words in different parts of the world and those that have had the highest search growth this year. Unexpected events such as the death of Paul Walker or Álvaro Buló and television programs such as Big Brother 14, Gandía Shore or Eurovision 2013 have been some of the most searched words this year.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
