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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
 ...cience Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before.
Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join scientific and policy efforts ... |
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Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits |
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Digital Photos Testify Against Domestic Abusers |
| ...issed by Polaroids, and the human eye. Digital photos depict for example cuts on an outstretched hand or bruises that are difficult to notice on the dark complexion skin. When specialists magnify the pictures, there appear other wounds, like tiny cuts and broken capillaries.
By computer, police officers are able to transmit the pictures immediately to a database used by prosecutors of the city. When they used to take P... |
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Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game |
 ...ty of Portsmouth, Nipan Minar is leading the development of a new interactive mobile phone game for students in the UK to help them overcome the culture shock. This is expected to be achieved through pictures of students drinking alcohol or a couple kissing in public, integrated into the game - things not allowed in certain cultures.
The game is called C-Shock and it is being developed by Nipan Minar, who himself arriv... |
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School Cleaner Took Pics of Kids in the Toilet |
| ... were photographed through the holes of the toilet by a school cleaner.
Adrian Alan Mayne, 31, worked as a school cleaner but seemed to take advantage of his duties after it was found that he took pictures of schoolgirls and female teachers in the toilet. He made a large hole on the floor of the toilet and hid the camera in it to make photos of the intimate parts of the children . More than 90 images were later superi... |
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Microsoft Reached 40 Million Licenses of Vista |
 ...forward to manufacture products for Windows Home Server. The new software has the goal of helping families with multiple PCs to centralize easier and share with and protect digital content, including pictures, documents, audio and video files.
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Xbox 360 Elite - Accessories and Components |
 ... output along with a DVD playback.
Detachable 120GB hard drive for Xbox 360 with the help of which gamers are able to save their games as well as a wide range of television shows, movies, music, pictures, trailers, levels, demos that can be found on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
The Wireless Controller of Xbox 360 includes an Xbox Guide Button, so users could use the in-game access to their friends quicker. The control... |
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Robots Assist in Rescuing Disaster Victims |
| ...sts will test robot performance applying actual training scenarios for emergency responders. Test results are required for improving and developing new usage guides that allow to match specific kinds of robots to particular disaster scenes.
The scientists developed two Disaster City training scenarios. The first provides a simulated collapse of a building. It will allow responders to use robots for victim searching and a... |
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Bad Memories Can Be Suppressed If Only You Really Want It |
 ...search, said that study showed that people can deal with bad memories on their own practicing mental control over and over again.
All the participants were asked to remember 40 different pairs of pictures with faces expressing variety of emotions from neutral ones to highly emotional, like showing crime scenes or car incident. While the pictures were shown, the participants were given a task either to keep in mind the... |
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The Less Online Content - The Better, Study Says |
| ...wed that people are more likely to focus on the online content with fewer options.
The participants took part in the experiment where their responses were studied while they were watching online pictures. Kevin Wise and Kimberlee Pepple, conducted the study where volunteers were given a task to choose three pictures from six and 24 selection of thumbnails. Researchers then studied participants' heart rates to define ... |
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Virtual Policemen to Purify the Chinese Internet |
 ...onal ideas or the ones that might seem suspicious to the two police officers. On-line gambling is also regarded as an illegal activity.
Every 30 minutes users will see a picture on their displays. Pictures will depict a man or a woman on a motorcycle, in a car or on foot. A click on those pictures will redirect users on the web-site of Beijing City Administration, department for public security, where users can report ... |
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Comments from Digg |
 ....com, Netscape.com, Shoutwire.com and the like, would start a comments, or quotes, section, where users would promote the comments from the entire network.
This post should be considered as a sequel of the upper-mentioned, as it should become an example, of what we were talking about. This is a list of some comments, selected from several posts some two or three weeks ago. Actually it doesn't matter, when the comments we... |
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Scientist Predicts Humans Will Marry Robots |
 ...British scientist was awarded a PhD by the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, for his work claiming that marriage between robots and human will become common in the near future.
David Levy, an artificial intelligence scientist wrote a thesis Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners where he says that robots can become even more suitable partners for humans. In his work he explains that changing views on... |
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Victim of a Gang Rape Sentenced to 200 Lashes in Saudi Arabia |
 ...tried to influence him by using to the mass-media.
The corpus delicti of her crime was the fact that at the time of the assault she was in a car with her ex-husband. She wanted to make him return pictures of her, since she was getting married with another man.
According to Arab newspapers, the couple was sitting in the car, when a gang of 7 Sunni men approached the car and raped both of them. They state that the gi... |
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Blondes Make Men Act More Silly, Study Says |
 ...hat men's mental performance became worse after they looked at blonde women.
Researchers at the University of Paris X-Nanterre discovered that men's scores on general knowledge tests after viewing pictures of blonde women dropped. As it was later found, this effect can be explained by the fact that men were unconsciously thinking they were dealing with someone who was less smart.
Thierry Meyer, joint author of the ... |
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