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Microchips Repair Brain Damage in Rats [VIDEO]Stroke and Parkinson’s Disease patients may benefit from a controversial experiment that implanted microchips into lab rats. Scientists say the tests produced effective results in brain damage research. Rats showed motor function in formerly damaged gray matter after a neural micro... Lady Gaga Joins Google+ [VIDEO]Pop megastar Lady Gaga just expanded her powerful social media presence with a Google+ profile. But while Gaga has racked up the most followers on Twitter with 18 million, she still has a long way to go before claiming the most followers on Google‘s social network. Gaga’s pro... Hollywood: SOPA’s DNS Blocking ‘Off The Table’The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Hollywood’s lobbying group, has been one of the strongest supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act. Both of those bills were originally designed to block or re-route DNS (Domain Name Service) requests for sites... Airbnb Gets More Mobile, Launches Android AppHot startup Airbnb had a rocky 2011. The company, which lets you rent rooms and annexes in people’s homes, had some impressive ideas (you can use the site to rent the nation of Lichtenstein, for example), some bad luck (thieves ransacked a host’s house after staying there), and some P... The First Album Recorded Entirely on the iPhone is HereAlabama-based rock band One Like Son wanted to challenge themselves when they returned to the “studio” to record their third album after a 10-year music hiatus. So on Jan. 1, 2010, band frontman Stephen Poff vowed to spend the year recording a new set of songs solely with iPhone track... Google to Use Homepage to Protest SOPA on WednesdayYou won’t see a blank page at Google.com on Wednesday, but the company will use its homepage to register its opposition to SOPA. A Google spokesperson told Mashable that its homepage will include a link where users can learn more about SOPA, confirming a Bloomberg report. “Like many ... How the DOJ Forced an Online Poker Savant Into Fantasy SportsTaylor Caby turned $35 into “a couple million” playing online poker while still a college student in the early 2000s. He soon leveraged his success as a player into founding a pair of successful poker-related Internet companies, CardRunners.com and Hold’em Manager. The future l... Where Do SOPA and PIPA Stand Now?Over the weekend, there was a maelstrom of activity surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). With the U.S. House of Representatives reconvening today and the Senate following next week, now is a good time to catch a collective breath and figure out the status o... Consumers Don’t Like Shopping Via Branded Apps [INFOGRAPHIC]Companies have long felt the pressure to develop apps for customers carrying tablets and smartphones, but according to a new study consumers show a greater preference — by up to 20 times — for browsing the Web to shop rather than using branded apps. The findings, by mobile and social... Netflix Slammed With Class-Action Suit by ‘Misled’ InvestorsA group of investors has filed a class-auction lawsuit against Netflix and several of its executives, alleging that the film and TV subscription service purposely misled the plantiffs about its earnings prospects ahead before the company’s stock took a deep dive in the second half of 2011. ... |