Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital who mine Facebook users' Likes and interests for correlations with nationwide obesity statistics are discovering that users who indicate interests related to healthy living tend to live in regions with lower obesity rates, while the opposite is true for users who indicate interests related to sedentary activities, such as television.
New technology that lets users control game avatars and music playlists with their brainwaves could give stroke patients and the profoundly disabled new ways to communicate.
