Aug. 25, 2016 Contrary to popular belief, older adults enjoy emailing, instant messaging, Facebook and other forms of social technology. Not only that, but such online networking appears to reduce seniors' ...
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Aug. 25, 2016 Researchers are looking at better ways of helping grieving people let go of emotionally-charged digital content after the death of loved ones or the break-up of ...
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Aug. 19, 2016 Cybersecurity student researches spent the summer researching how to keep cars safe from cyberattacks during an intensive eight-week cybersecurity summer research ...
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Aug. 17, 2016 Personalized wearable digital technology can help adults diagnosed with autism understand and manage their anxiety, say ...
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Aug. 17, 2016 Researchers are investigating how cell phone data could benefit traffic planning by carrying out a study to determine whether data from cell phone networks could offer a reliable source of ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 The world should consider ways to limit data growth on the internet to prevent run-away energy consumption and help limit carbon emissions, say leading computer ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 New research reveals that some Android apps may automatically transmit sensitive information, such as the routes you travel, through the phone's built-in sensors. A malicious developer, he says, ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 Researchers have developed an application that can be accessed from parents' smart phones, tablets, or computers and used to distract children during painful ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 The use of smartphones and tablet computers during evening hours has previously been associated with sleep disturbances in humans. A new study now shows that daytime light exposure may be a promising ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Researchers have built a record energy-efficient switch, which uses the interplay of electricity and a liquid form of light, in semiconductor microchips. The device could form the foundation of ...
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Aug. 5, 2016 Researchers have defined a new benchmarking method for mobile phone cameras. The benchmarking combines different image quality and camera performance metrics to a comparable, single value ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 How can we move beyond solid state electronics towards flexible soft circuit systems? New self-propelling liquid metals could be the answer. The advance opens the potential for creating makeshift and ...
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Aug. 3, 2016 People suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of age-related dementia sometimes have trouble recognizing friends and family or knowing what to talk about when they visit. A new app offers to ...
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Aug. 3, 2016 In a new study, researchers examine the legal rights of people to record and live stream and any potential right to be free from being recorded and streamed in public ...
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Aug. 2, 2016 Researchers examined trends in seniors' use of digital health technology in the US from ...
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Aug. 1, 2016 The wireless data transmission via mobile communication is reliable and affordable. However, data volume per user is rising exponentially. Causes are not only the continuously growing number of ...
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July 28, 2016 Over the past decade, the number of virtual field trips created to simulate in-person field excursions has grown, but one aspect of physical fieldwork is not commonly replicated: Virtual explorers do ...
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July 28, 2016 Researchers have unveiled a new photo-editing method for correcting distortions in 'selfies,' photos taken at abnormally close range, to make them look more like conventional portraits. The ...
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July 26, 2016 Engineers have discovered that interfacing two particular oxide-based materials makes them highly conductive, a boon for future electronics that could result in much more power-efficient laptops, ...
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July 25, 2016 Millions of people around the world have started to play Pokémon Go, a virtual reality treasure hunt where players must walk to places within the real world and catch, train and battle monsters ...
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