News tagged with personal control
Forget Segway: Honda introduces new UNI-CUB personal mobility device (w/ Video)
Honda Motor today unveiled the new UNI-CUB personal mobility device. Featuring a compact design and comfortable saddle, UNI-CUB offers the same freedom of movement in all directions that a person enjoys while ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 15, 2012 |
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A new direction for game controllers: Prototypes tug at thumb tips to enhance video gaming
University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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McAfee warns of hacker threat to autos
Cars made smarter with Internet technology are zooming into perilous hacker territory, according to a report by US computer security giant McAfee.
Sep 07, 2011 |
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All the Web privacy you want
Microsoft announced last week that the next version of its Internet Explorer browser will include better privacy controls, giving users more protection against being tracked by advertisers online. Its initiative, which takes ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Facebook launches Web page devoted to online safety
Facebook on Monday launched a Web page devoted to staying safe on the Internet.
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Contrary to Popular Models, Sugar Is Not Burned by Self-Control Tasks (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Contradicting a popular model of self-control, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist says the data from a 2007 study argues against the idea that glucose is the resource used to manage ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Obesity bias based on disgust: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Negative attitudes towards obese people are based on an emotional response of disgust, a new study suggests.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Study finds prenatal exposure to certain chemicals affects childhood neurodevelopment
A new study led by Mount Sinai researchers in collaboration with scientists from Cornell University and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has found higher prenatal exposure to phthalates—manmade chemicals ...
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Self-control is contagious, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Before patting yourself on the back for resisting that cookie or kicking yourself for giving in to temptation, look around. A new University of Georgia study has revealed that self-control -- or the lack ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Facebook tops 350 million users, tightens privacy
Facebook is enhancing privacy controls and eliminating its regional framework for online communities as the Internet's most popular social networking service tops 350 million users.
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Prevention experts urge modification to 2009 H1N1 guidance for health care workers
Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal ...
Nov 06, 2009 |
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CDC advice for those with flulike symptoms
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering advice to people wondering what to do if a family member takes ill with flulike symptoms. Some of the more important points:
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 01, 2009 |
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Researcher examines impact of religious beliefs on personal well-being
Hilda Schau says it's a belief in God that carried her through divorce and job loss. Urologist Manuel Padron says he regularly sees the power of faith at work in his patients.
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Power and the illusion of control: Why some make the impossible possible and others fall short
Power holders often seem misguided in their actions. Leaders and commanders of warring nations regularly underestimate the costs in time, money, and human lives required for bringing home a victory. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2009 |
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