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Students exposed to cell phone ringtones score 25 percent worse
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A flurry of recent research has documented that talking on a cell phone poses a dangerous distraction for drivers and others whose attention should be focused elsewhere. Now, a new study in ...
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US senators seek to squash spam
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text ...
Education Budget Cuts to Cause Increase in Mobile Technology Use
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As budget cuts in education continue, we will see more use of mobile technologies in the classroom in 2010, predicts Dr. Vivian Wright, a University of Alabama educator.
Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary
Sep 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems on the eve of Sept. 11, finally going offline a day before the 8th anniversary of the al-Qaida ...
In Brief: 'MP4' software offered for Windows Player
Apr 25, 2006 |
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A public beta test has been launched for software that will allow the playing of low-bandwidth MPEG-4 audio on Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Gov't addresses 'robocall' annoyance with new ban
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Americans tired of having their dinners interrupted by phone calls touting car warranties or vacation packages will soon get some relief.
Noisy roads increase risk of high blood pressure
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Traffic noise raises blood pressure. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health have found that people exposed to high levels of noise from nearby roads are more likely to report suffer ...
Glitch in antivirus software troubles PC users
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Antivirus software cuts two ways. It's great at blocking known viruses, but it can sometimes misfire, mistakenly flagging clean files as malicious. That sends a computer into a tailspin trying to clean up stuff that's ...
To prevent accidents, car must know its driver
May 30, 2007 |
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Over the past several years, scientists working in the area of intelligent vehicles have developed predictive braking systems to help prevent rear-end collisions. When your car gets dangerously close to the ...
British employees resent sick co-workers
Oct 31, 2005 |
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Nine out of 10 British workers reportedly resent colleagues who are absent because of illness since it puts them under additional pressure.
Scientists Solve Problem of Quantum Dot 'Blinking'
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Quantum dots—tiny, intense, tunable sources of colorful light—are illuminating new opportunities in biomedical research, cryptography and other fields. But these semiconductor nanocrystals also have a secret ...
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