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Teaching people to identify faces of those of another race could …
The Canadian Press – 21 Jan 2009 TORONTO – Teaching people how to distinguish between faces of members of another race could be an effective way to combat racial biases, new research suggests. Learning to overcome racial bias Boston Globe all 9 news articles |
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Gettysburg professor presents program on Galileo at Renfrew
Gettysburg Times – 21 Jan 2009 The public is invited to learn about the “new universe” discovered by Galileo four centuries ago in a program scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7 pm at the Visitors Center at Renfrew Park in Waynesboro. SCIENCE NORTH CELEBRATES Lake Superior News all 5 news articles |
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Elgato Releases EyeTV 3.1 Update
O’Grady’s Power Page – 21 Jan 2009 Late Sunday, Elgato Systems released version 3.1 of its EyeTV software application, which finds and tracks all television programming you want to see and allows users to pause live television and save content to file. Elgato updates up EyeTV to 3.1 Macworld UK all 6 news articles |
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Games vs Music, Music vs Games
p2pnet.net – 21 Jan 2009 p2pnet news view Music | Games:- Despite economic downturn, Canadian consumers spend big on video games. That was the headline to a Canadian Press story pulled by in M&M’s World headlines yesterday. Retail PC Game Revenues Decline 14% in 2008 DailyTech PC Game Retail Sales Drop 14%, Revenue Shifts Online? PC World Ars Technica – Tom’s Hardware Guide – Gamasutra all 7 news articles |
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Democrat Copps says named acting US FCC chief
Reuters – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama named Michael Copps on Thursday as acting chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission which regulates telephone, wireless, radio and television communications. Obama Names Copps as Acting FCC Chief PC World Copps Named Acting FCC Chair MEDIAWEEK TV Technology – The Latest | Free Press – Multichannel News – xchange Magazine all 22 news articles |
Released in 1985, the Dustbot is claimed to be the first robot to feature a built-in vacuum cleaner (that broom was just for show) and featured edge detection to turn away from obstacles.
Advanced Micro Devices cuts the prices of some of its processors for high-end desktops and gaming PCs.
Apple executives hinted Wednesday that the company might legally contest the multitouch technology found within the Palm Pre.
In the 1980s, climate scientists in Russia & U.S. theorized that all-out nuclear war between the superpowers would result in a “nuclear winter,” blackening the sky and sending temperatures plummeting below freezing, killing crops and eventually starving everybody. While there is no regional nuclear war, the climate effects are still sobering.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a final tally of the casualties of the 23-day war in Gaza. They way 1284 Gazans were killed and 4336 were wounded, the vast majority civilians. Israel says these numbers are inflated. The two sides disagree on the death toll, particularly the ratio of combatants and civilians.
