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Virtual Reality Breathes Second Life Into Language Teaching
October 9, 2008 An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative ... > full story -
Counterterrorism Programs That Collect And Mine Data Should Be Evaluated For Effectiveness, Report Recommends
October 8, 2008 All US agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data -- such as phone, medical and travel records or Web sites visited -- should be required to systematically evaluate ... > full story -
Hack-a-vote: Students Learn How Vulnerable Electronic Voting Really Is
October 8, 2008 This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used ... > full story -
Peer-to-peer Networking Takes Internet Out Of The Equation
October 6, 2008 When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows ... > full story -
Bullying Of Teenagers Online Is Common, UCLA Psychologists Report
October 3, 2008 Seventy-two percent of 12-17-year-olds reported receiving at least one online incident of bullying in the last year, and 90 percent report not telling their parents or any other adult about being ... > full story -
Step Right Up, Let The Computer Look At Your Face And Tell You Your Age
October 3, 2008 Like an age-guesser at a carnival, new computer software can fairly accurately estimate a person's age. But, unlike age-guessers, who can view a person's body, the software works by examining only ... > full story -
Just In Time For School: Free Adeona Service Tracks Stolen Laptops
September 30, 2008 Researchers have created the first free laptop theft-protection tool. The open-source software not only provides a virtual watchdog on your precious machine -- reporting the laptop's location when it ... > full story -
Zeroing In On Wi-Fi 'Dead Zones' To Inexpensively Fill Gaps In Wireless Networks
September 30, 2008 Rooting out Wi-Fi "dead zones" in citywide wireless networks is an expensive proposition. The paucity of techniques for mapping areas that lack coverage is an impediment, both for pre-deployment and ... > full story -
Doctors Bone Up On Orthopaedics Through Wiki Project
September 29, 2008 Web-based academic discussions could well be the way forward for cost-effective and tailored continuing education for health professionals. China's interactive Orthochina.org wiki project for ... > full story -
Workers More Prone To Lie In E-mail, And Feel Justified In Lying
September 28, 2008 A pair of recent studies suggest that E-mail is the most deceptive form of communications in the workplace -- even more so than more traditional kinds of written communications, like pen-and-paper. ... > full story -
Fake Popup Warnings Fool Internet Users Even After Repeated Mistakes
September 23, 2008 Most Internet users are unable to distinguish genuine popup warnings messages from false ones -- even after repeated mistakes. The fake ones were designed to trick users into downloading harmful ... > full story -
New Bluetooth System Orients Blind And Sighted Pedestrians
September 23, 2008 A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as they pass ... > full story
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