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12 Little-Known iPad Features - 0 views

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ipad

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  • The "iTunes U" area of the store offers courses and instructional materials from universities and colleges around the world.
Parisa Rouhani

iPad Already Changing the Way Web Sites Are Built - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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ipad site design

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  • Several major companies have already developed iPad-ready Web sites which will run alongside their current Flash-based sites for computer users. The New York Times will have an iPad version of its site.
  • changing the layout of their content to better fit the iPad's screen
  • There has been a push to convert to HTML5 for a couple years and for several reasons, less Flash dependence being one of them
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  • HTML5 will make it possible for many other devices, most notably the iPhone and other smartphones, to view full Web pages without Flash. That would eliminate the need for many companies to maintain separate sites for mobile devices.
Parisa Rouhani

Virtually addicted: Weaning Koreans off their wired world - CNN.com - 1 views

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gaming Korea addict

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  • Cheong is down to playing two or three hours on "Starcraft" and "World of Warcraft" three times a week,
  • The South Korean government estimates that the country has 2 million citizens addicted to the Internet
  • Earlier this month a three-month-old baby girl succumbed to malnutrition while her parents spent 12-hour stretches in an Internet café playing the role-playing game Prius Online
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  • 22-year-old man returned to an Internet cafe to continue playing immediately after he murdered his mother, who had complained about his gaming habits. Physical exhaustion after long computer sessions has also caused deaths.
  • Internet addicts will also be offered free software with a timer that shuts down their computers or a "fatigue system" that bores players by making games slower and more difficult
  • Some of the suggested new measures to curb Internet addiction could collide with a gaming market that is expected to be worth $5.5 billion this year with a 17 percent growth rate
  • The companies make their money selling add-ons such as weapons, outfits and special abilities for the online characters.
  • Another novel idea to curb addiction is to punish excessive playing by confiscating gamers' virtual wealth.
  • We are examining various technological directions to prevent excessively continuous game play even for adults, and we are also discussing a special system that will allow children and teenagers to learn a healthy gaming habit,
  • Parisa Rouhani on 28 Mar 10
     
    This is an interesting article that speaks to the result of over-engagement. I wonder if this problem is specific to Korea and less so in other countries (if so, what is it about that environment that makes video games so addictive) or if it's only been studied in Korea but could be a similar problem in other parts of the world.
Parisa Rouhani

Facebook plans to add 'place' feature - CNN.com - 0 views

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privacy facebook location

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  • When a person checks in to a certain spot, his or her friends are alerted about their whereabouts.
  • the massive social networking site will make changes "sometime soon" to the policies that govern how it works.
  • "We may collect information about you from other Facebook users, such as when a friend tags you in a photo, video, or place, provides friend details, or indicates a relationship with you."
Parisa Rouhani

Teen Survives After Being Stabbed in Head by 10-Inch Knife - Incredible Health - FOXNew... - 0 views

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social gaming cheats 'knife in skull'

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  • Wei's friend said he was playing an online video game when another gamer accused him of using a cheat code to help him beat online opponents.
  • no main arteries or nerves were damaged
  • Wei is in stable condition following surgery, but doctors say he is still at risk of infections, brain damage, seizures and tetanus.
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Students to face cyberbullying charges - SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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online ethics cyber bullying

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  • threatening comments on a fellow student's Web site can be charged with hate crimes and defamation.
  • students began posting threatening remarks
  • The appellate court determined that the cyberbullying was not free speech and the students were not protected by First Amendment rights
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GoDaddy.com plans to stop registering domain names in China - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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ethics godaddy china google internet

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  • will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves.
  • effort by China to increase monitoring and surveillance of Web site content
  • follows Google's announcement
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  • company has answered the call to defend the rights of the Chinese people
  • Beijing government has sought to tighten its censorship policies and undermine the ability of U.S. companies to operate freely.
  • This is a way the Chinese government can send a chilling message to people that they shouldn't speak freely online.
Parisa Rouhani

Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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conservative textbooks

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  • social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
  • Republicans on the board have passed more than 160 amendments to the 120-page curriculum standards affecting history, sociology and economics courses from elementary to high school.
  • They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world.
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  • reviewed every decade
  • conservative members maintain that they are trying to correct what they see as a liberal bias among the teachers who proposed the curriculum
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FOXNews.com - How to Map the Human Brain - 0 views

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neurons mapping human brain

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  • But as many as 10 people must trace each neuron to catch errors, out of a team of several dozen.
  • no single wiring diagram looked the same for any animal. The wiring diagrams for the left and right ear muscles of the same animal also looked different, despite the muscles having an identical purpose.
  • hey represent simple challenges compared to the brain. They also know the exact purpose of the neurons and their connections in those cases
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  • memories are written in connectomes," Seung explained. "We may also be able to find connectopathies, or miswirings of the brain that cause mental disorders."
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Report: Facebook to add location features - SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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facebook location finder

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  • This is seen by some as a helpful way for friends to find each other and meet up in real life.
  • Parisa Rouhani on 11 Mar 10
     
    facebook is considering using a location feature that will tell others where people are. it is an interesting use of technology for social purposes and with it comes the opportunity for robberies while people are away from home, stalking, etc.
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No fair! Why your brain hates inequities - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

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brain activity equity fair

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  • people prefer a level playing field,
  • Our study shows that the brain doesn’t just reflect self-interested goals, but instead, these basic reward processing regions of the brain seem to be affected by social information
  • humans are attuned to inequality, and we just don't like it.
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  • The researchers monitored signals in the striatum and prefrontal cortex , parts of the brain thought to be involved in how people evaluate rewards. They found that the brain activity in these areas was greater for the "rich" subjects when money was transferred to the other player than to themselves, whereas the "poor" subjects' brains showed the opposite pattern
  • n other words, everyone seemed to prefer a financial equality.
  • these regions were responding most when the outcome would be the most fair,
  • Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10
     
    research shows that people prefer equity in situations. fairness affects one's emotions about a situation
Parisa Rouhani

Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-popping - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

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perscription drug use

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  • While men make up the majority of abusers of street drugs, including meth, cocaine and heroin, women are just as likely to abuse prescription pills as men.
  • tudies show that women are more likely — in some cases, 55 percent more likely — to be prescribed an abusable prescription drug, especially narcotics and anti-anxiety drugs.
  • Abuse of prescription drugs has risen right along with increases in the number of prescriptions for stimulants and painkillers seen since the early '90s,
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  • That stat is backed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which found that the main source of prescription drugs among non-medical users — a whopping 56 percent — was free drugs from friends and family.
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Italy convicts 3 Google execs for privacy violations - Feb. 24, 2010 - 0 views

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google privacy

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  • A judge in Milan found three Google executives guilty Wednesday of violating Italy's privacy code
  • Sucherman said a public prosecutor in Milan then indicted four Google executives
  • for criminal defamation and violation of the country's privacy code.
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  • judge found all four executives not guilty of criminal defamation.
  • egal codes do not require Google, the Internet or any other company to control content before it is uploaded to the Web.
Parisa Rouhani

Gmail holds 'graduations' and 'funerals' - CNN.com - 0 views

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google

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  • this system of color-coded messages is something he invented to save himself time and to organize the 100 or so e-mails he gets in a typical workday
  • Let people create products they'd use themselves, get those products out to the public as soon as possible, and make consumers think it's OK for things to break.
  • Gmail was a beta app for a while in itself and that kind of let us as a company not be too afraid about getting something out that may screw up once in a while."
Parisa Rouhani

Phones, paper 'chips' may fight disease - CNN.com - 0 views

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medical technology

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  • George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper "chip" technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and gastroenteritis.
  • Patients put a drop of blood on one side of the slip of paper, and on the other appears a colorful pattern in the shape of a tree, which tells medical professionals whether the person is infected with certain diseases.
  • hey test for multiple diseases at once. They also show how severely a person is infected rather than producing only a positive-negative reading
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  • solutions to complicated problems often are found in simple, low-cost technologies.
  • he paper may mold in humid, hot climates. And it's still important for people to get access to doctors so they know what to do about their diagnoses,
Parisa Rouhani

Music Helps Stroke Victims Communicate, Study Finds - WSJ.com - 0 views

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brain stroke

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  • music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.
  • patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,
  • there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.
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  • he patients who benefit the most from the treatment are those who are able to hear the "melodic contour" of words and thus generalize their learning beyond the words taught by their therapist.
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Your Facebook profile: An open invite to crime? - Technotica- msnbc.com - 0 views

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  • consider how you, yourself may be actively violating not only our personal privacy, but your physical existence with the stuff you post on social networks every single day.
  • Thirty-eight percent of the Facebook and Twitter users surveyed posted their holiday plans online, and 33 percent shared information about weekends away. "Coupled with the finding that an alarmingly high proportion of users are prepared to be 'friends' online with people they don't really know, this presents a serious risk to the security of people's home and contents," the insurance company said in a statement.
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Technology that makes the heart grow fonder - Love in the Digital Age- msnbc.com - 1 views

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  • met a guy in Second Life, the online world where people create avatars to represent themselves
  • you’re forced to write, and be descriptive, and reveal more of yourself to that person than you would face to face
Parisa Rouhani

What Google needs to learn from Buzz backlash - CNN.com - 2 views

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google privacy concerns buzz

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Google has taken a hit over the Buzz launch from a public that is already skeptical about the search giant's motivations with the enormous amount of personal data it already has accumulated.
  • debating the usefulness of the service
  • social networks only really start to become compelling when a user has a lot of contacts, according to a source familiar with its thinking.
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  • the company needs to make sure it strikes a better balance between internal and external feedback
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