Tag: TEEN

Yesterday, a harmless teenager from the U.K. suddenly found himself under a flood of Twitter attacks -- all because of an app called 'Twifficiency.' "Twifficiency calculates your Twitter efficiency based upon your Twitter activity," the service's site explains. "This includes how many people you follow, how many people follow you, how often you tweet and how many tweets you read." As with any ...

After hearing lengthy complaints and protests from child safety advocates, Facebook has finally decided to implement a new feature designed to help teenage users stay safe online. As Reuters reports, members between the ages of 13 and 18 will now automatically receive an invitation to add an application that allows them to easily report suspicious activity. The feature, which is the result of a ...

Paging Dr. House. The stomach pain, vomiting, and fever that Sammamish, Washington teen Jessica Terry had endured for the past eight years stupefied doctors, forcing the high school senior to regularly miss class. Then, last January, Jessica borrowed one of her intestinal slides from her pathologist, took it to her A.P. Biomedical Problems class, and looked at it under a microscope. The problem, ...

At 12 years old, most of us could barely raise our textbook-filled backpacks, never mind $6.5 million in funding. But that's exactly what Silicon Valley 6th grader Arjun Mehta has done. Way back when he was in 5th grade (last year), Mehta started PlaySpan in the family garage. PlaySpan is a service that works with gaming companies to sell virtual goods inside of their online worlds -- rather ...

If you're a teen in California don't even think about touching that cell phone while driving anymore. On Thursday California became the 15th state (along with Washington D.C.) to ban cell phone use for teen drivers. Older drivers will still be allowed to use hands-free calling devices, but those text-crazy teenagers will have to make do without their trusty mobiles. The Governator was quoted as ...

Leave it to a couple of Canadian teenagers to take the Segway concept and improve upon it. Two Ontario teens have created the Tango, an odd unicycle-like vehicle that runs on a souped-up electric wheelchair engine. The vehicle resembles a motorcycle folded in half. Two wheels sit side by side, creating a single (but wide) surface that contacts the ground. The included accelerometer picks up the ...

It looks as if teenage Interneters are leaving MySpace, many seeking refuge in the arms of rival social-networking site, Facebook. MySpace still holds a commanding lead over Facebook in overall members and in each individual age group, but it has seen its lead amongst those under 18 slowly erode. According to comScore Media Matrix, a measure of digital audience, the number of visitors to ...