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Dyslexia Linked to Brain Communication Breakdown
Dyslexia may be caused by impaired connections between auditory and speech centers of the brain, according to a study published today in Science . The research could help to resolve conflicting… – Read...
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Bacterium Reverses Autism-Like Behavior in Mice
Doses of a human gut microbe helped to reverse behavioral problems in mice with autism-like symptoms, researchers report today in Cell . The treatment also reduced gastrointestinal problems in… – Read...
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In an L.A. court, a woman claims her Google Glass device switched on accidentally when she was pulled over by highway patrol. Google’s wearable computer, Glass, made its first metaphorical court...
View ArticleNelson Mandela est mort : grandeur, gravité et légèreté entre le Web et Twitter
Nelson Mandela s’est éteint. Sur Twitter, les réactions à chaud varient entre solennité et fantaisie. Sur le Web, le projet Google de numérisation des archives du Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory...
View ArticleIdentifying Signs of Chronic Brain Injury in Living Football Players
A new brain-imaging technology may reveal the true risk of repetitive head injury in contact sports. Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain...
View ArticleAn App-Led Walk down Memory Lane
Memoir, a new iPhone app, is meant to call up your digital memories at convenient times and places.
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Apple selling Sharp 4K monitor ahead of Mac Pro launch
Apple is selling a 4K monitor from Sharp that could allay concerns of users looking to buy the upcoming Mac Pro desktop for ultra-high definition content creation. Sharp’s PN-K321 4K Ultra HD LED...
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Will to Persevere Can Be Triggered by Electric Stimulation
When neurologist Josef Parvizi electrically stimulated a portion of his epileptic patient’s brain, the subject reported a striking mood change, along with some physical effects: He reported… – Read...
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Smart Wig Could Compete with Google Glass
Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. [More] – Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A Brief History Of Octopi Taking Over The World
Don’t shoot! I’ll let go! Sometimes the octopus doesn’t even straddle a map. Here it’s just a very subtle villain. Udo J. Keppler Octopuses, octopi, octopodes: whatever plural form used, the...
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Apple knows where shoppers are in its stores with nationwide iBeacon rollout
Apple is taking a closer look at shoppers in its retail stores, under a new program that will push product-related information to their mobile devices using its iBeacon trackers. All 254 of the...
View ArticleThe Sad Story of the Battery Breakthrough that Proved Too Good to Be True
Technology from Envia that was supposed to cut EV battery costs in half doesn’t actually work. We’ve previously reported on a startup, Envia Systems, that claimed its batteries could store twice as...
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Couples Under An X-Ray And Other Amazing Images From This Week
X-Ray Couples With a real X-ray machine, artists Ayako Kanda and Hayashi Mayuka took these intimate, dark, and kind of hilarious images of couples. Ayako Kanda and Hayashi Mayuka via io9
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Federal Flood Maps Left New York Unprepared for Sandy, and FEMA Knew It
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The Week In Numbers: The Rise Of Bed Bugs, A Portable X-Ray Machine, And More
Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two 2,500 mph: the speed attained this year by the six-passenger Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two, the first commercial spacecraft to exceed...
View ArticleOther Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 7 December 2013)
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server. Mobile and Remote Inertial Sensing with Atom Interferometers
View ArticleIT.Week 4 : Free dans la 4G, Amazon livre par drone, Google Compute Engine
L’ITweek volet IV est disponible. Au programme : Free s’incruste dans la 4G, Amazon a trouvé un moyen astucieux pour livrer vite et la puissance de calcul informatique de Google à disposition de ses...
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Are your smartphone apps selling you out?
The president of the United States says he’s not “allowed” to own an iPhone, which is why he’s sticking with his BlackBerry, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s a politically sensitive subject...
View ArticleCyber-surveillance élargie : le Conseil national du numérique fait de la...
Selon le CNNum, il “n’est pas opportun” de changer de dispositif qui aboutirait à une surveillance généralisée. Il veut se raccrocher à une future loi sur les libertés numériques. Trop tard pour le...
View ArticleL’ADN du palmier déchiffré par une équipe saoudo-chinoise
Des chercheurs saoudiens et chinois ont annoncé dimanche avoir déchiffré le génome du palmier dattier.
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