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music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.

patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,

there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.

consider how you, yourself may be actively violating not only our personal privacy, but your physical existence with the stuff you post on social networks every single day.

Thirty-eight percent of the Facebook and Twitter users surveyed posted their holiday plans online, and 33 percent shared information about weekends away. "Coupled with the finding that an alarmingly high proportion of users are prepared to be 'friends' online with people they don't really know, this presents a serious risk to the security of people's home and contents," the insurance company said in a statement.

met a guy in Second Life, the online world where people create avatars to represent themselves

you’re forced to write, and be descriptive, and reveal more of yourself to that person than you would face to face

Google has taken a hit over the Buzz launch from a public that is already skeptical about the search giant's motivations with the enormous amount of personal data it already has accumulated.

debating the usefulness of the service

social networks only really start to become compelling when a user has a lot of contacts, according to a source familiar with its thinking.

a brand new device that fused the characteristics of an iPod, a PDA and a cellphone into one. The result was the iPhone.

Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read any more."