If you've been paying even a minuscule amount of attention to Sony's release schedule you'll have noticed that this year saw two flagship phones released six months apart, the Xperia Z2 and the Xperia Z3. Last year it was the Xperia Z and the Xperia Z1. That might be about to change after the launch…

When Apple bought Beats it was, in all likelihood, for reasons other than the fact it makes very popular headphones. It's pretty likely that one of those reasons was Beats's own music streaming service, Beats Music, which provide Apple with a leg-up into an industry they had previously had no part in. We first heard…

Twitpic is done, it closed over the weekend thanks to trademark dispute between it and the people from Twitter. But fear not, the service itself may be dead but the archives have been purchased by Twitter, meaning your old Twitpic account will live on -- albeit in a read-only format. So what does this mean?…

Researchers from the Netherlands say that gossip (whether good or bad) can be a positive thing. As Psych Central reports, a team from the University of Groningen asked participants in one study to think about a time when they heard gossip about someone else. They were then asked questions about how this affected them. The…

New research suggests that beetroot could be helpful for people with heart disease. A team from Kansas State University led by David Poole, a professor of exercise kinesiology, anatomy, and physiology, has been studying the root vegetable’s benefits for a while. Last year, they published a study showing that the nitrate (a natural form of…

Downing a fizzy drink on a daily basis will age you as much as if you smoked with the same frequency, TreeHugger has reported. According to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, drinking a sugar-sweetened 20-ounce / 567g bottle ages you as much as smoking, adding almost two years onto the life of human cells.…