Slow mobile buffering a horror show: Ericsson
Video streaming delays generate as much stress as watching a horror film, the Swedish telecom company Ericsson said Wednesday.
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Can computer games improve the ability to study?
Computer-based games can have a beneficial effect on learning, according to ground-breaking new research from the University of Bristol. The brain-imaging study shows that – contrary to popular belief - technological game-playing ...
Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2016
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Parenting in the animal world: Turning off the infanticide instinct
Many bachelor mammals, including lions, mountain gorillas, monkeys, and mice, attack and kill the offspring of other males—a form of infanticide—yet display parental behavior once they themselves become fathers. Now, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2015
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How to trust what your customers say about your brand
Marketers would love to get inside the consumer brain. And now they can. Researchers at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see if what people say about brands matches ...
Economics & Business
Aug 4, 2015
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Researchers test brain activity to identify cybersecurity threats
The old adage that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link certainly applies to the risk organizations face in defending against cybersecurity threats. Employees pose a danger that can be just as damaging as a hacker.
Security
Apr 22, 2015
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Neurology research used in thrilling ride that adapts to riders' brain activity
Thrill seekers brave enough to test drive a new mixed-reality ride will only have themselves to blame if they find it a little too wild for their taste.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 12, 2015
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New 'electronic skin' for prosthetics, robotics detects pressure from different directions
Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so we can tighten our grip. For the first time, scientists report the development of a stretchable "electronic ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2014
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UK children tested on how sleep, exercise affect learning
Tens of thousands of English schoolchildren will be given a lie-in or more rigorous sports classes as part of a major trial announced on Thursday to assess how advances in neuroscience can affect learning.
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2014
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Understanding how the brain retrieves memories
(Medical Xpress)—Livermore scientists are developing electrode array technology for monitoring brain activity as part of a collaborative research project with UC San Francisco to better understand how the neural circuitry ...
Engineering
Jul 17, 2014
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Study suggests users pay more attention to Internet safety than previously assumed
Internet users face a barrage of information with each click, some of it designed to compromise security and privacy. Spammers hope, and security researchers have warned, that users cannot distinguish legitimate websites ...
Internet
Feb 28, 2014
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