How does the compassionate brain, measured in the lab, predict what occurs in real life?

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are launching a new series of studies to understand how laboratory measures of virtuous qualities such as compassion relate to their behavior in the real world.

How Does Apple Maintain Its Prices?

While judicious shopping around can find you a better deal on some older products, pricing for Apple’s gadgets tends to be remarkably consistent. How does the technology giant ensure that all its retailers play ball? Picture by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Compared to a couple of years ago, discounting on Apple products is actually slightly more common. The rise in grey importing op ...

How Will Free Wikipedia Access Change Africa and the Middle East?

Many of us take cheap high-speed Internet access for granted. I think nothing of downloading an MP3 album from Amazon MP3 while streaming a movie from Netflix on the Roku and browsing the Web on a powerful computer. That's not a luxury that's available to everyone, and in some parts of the world data charges prove prohibitive for going online for information. To help counter that, the Wikimedia ...

Buzz Out Loud 1579: Facebook goes public: The Winners and Losers (Podcast)

The Buzz crew talks about Facebook's historic IPO, and the challenges the company will face moving forward. Zynga is smiling, and so is the invite-only Pinterest. We've figured it out, and it's the new social network for girls or metrosexuals. "Into it, Not Into it" brings us vacuum-sealed couples, and that's all you need to know.

SMPlayer: A Flexible, Feature-Filled Media Player With a Frustrating Flaw

When it comes to playing audio and video files in Linux, media players pretty much all work the same way and have a very similar user interface. It usually all comes down to features. With SMPlayer it depends on what you want to play. Unfortunately, this bug of sorts is something its developer Ricardo Villalba has yet to resolve in the latest release, version 0.7.0.