Giving learning a personal touch July 18, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A learning system that adapts to the abilities and needs of students opens the way to a more personalised approach in delivering education electronically. | |
 Dutch researchers take flight with three-gram 'dragonfly' July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On Wednesday 23 July, TU Delft will be presenting the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar ... | |
 Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ... | |
 Google unveils reference tool after 7-month test July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic. | |
First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ... | |
Web networking photos come back to bite defendants July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed ... | |
Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. | |
 Research puts finger on virtual iPhone button July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A virtual tactile keyboard could hold the key to making the iPhone easier to use. | |
 Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw (Update) 10 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet. | |
 Meet Robo habilis July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has brought the dream of human-like robots closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an electronic ‘brain’ modelled on the human cerebellum. | |
 How Secure Is Your Network? NIST Model Knows July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(PhysOrg.com) -- Data breaches are a recurring nightmare for IT managers responsible for securing not only their company’s confidential data, but possibly also sensitive information belonging to their clients, ... | |
Microsoft to let developers sell Xbox games online July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Microsoft will let independent developers sell video games for the Xbox 360 console — and keep most of the profits — beginning this holiday season, the company said Tuesday. | |
Breaking up not so hard to do with Slydial July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The old song had it right: Breaking up is hard to do. But a free new phone service called Slydial might make it easier to get through that and other awkward moments - without actually having to talk to anyone. | |
 Grow your mobile in a pot? Maybe someday, say Nokia researchers July 22, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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With a mobile phone you can make calls on the go, shoot photos and pinpoint your position on a map. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be able to grow your phone in a pot, if the futuristic ideas of technology ... | |
Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible -- online July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online. | |
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