Facebook has reinvented its Poke feature with a new standalone iOS app that lets you send messages,photos and videos to your friends on the social networking service that disappear within 10 seconds of someone opening them. While it might ...
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A research team is demonstrating tablets that form local networks among the devices laid upon their surfaces, while also providing wireless charging, at the Ceatec electronics show in Japan. The concept is meant to support ad-hoc networks ...
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Rise in Stem A-level candidates No improvement in ICT grades Drop in female ICT students The number of students studying technology-based subjects at A-level has taken a sharp drop, as the number of computing and ICT exams dropped in ...
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With cybercrime revealed to cost Scottish businesses an estimated 5bn academics are urging firms to ensure IT staff have the right skills to overcome new and emerging threats. To enable them to do that, Edinburgh Napier University is ...
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Facebook's store of data about its users holds some surprises, and not just in the sheer quantity of data it is sitting on. Among the surprises it held for me was SBupsk. One of 47 topics about which Facebook thinks I am interested in ...
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At a launch event for the school's new wireless technology research center, MIT PhD student Swarun Kumar presented technology for a new autonomous vehicle that recognizes when it may be in danger of striking other cars and pedestrians. ...
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As of July 1, 2012, any school that accepts e-rate funds must provide annual Internet Safety and Cyberbullying training for all minors. Schools are required to document this training and keep records for five years. We have the best ...
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HOUSTON, TX, America's space program has come a long way from the early days when astronauts ate food packed in toothpaste tubes. Today, nutrition is known to be a key ingredient in astronaut health in space, just as it is for humans on ...
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Businessfriend, a new professional networking site has gone live with their beta site. The site is a digital eco-system that operates under their signature BUSI platform (Business Utility with a Social Identity) that aids individuals and ...
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Wikipedia was out of action again on Monday, but not intentionally, out of protest, as it has been in the past. This time, the user-generated online encyclopaedia was knocked offline because two fibre cables connecting its datacentres in ...
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ALL new students who enrol at the University of Western Sydney in 2013 will receive an iPad,as part of a massive rollout announced today. The university said in a statement it would distribute 11,000 iPads to each new student and all ...
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Every minute another person in New Zealand becomes a victim of cybercrime according to a new report which claims there are 556 million victims worldwide every year after the two NRI jailed for a major cyber fraud case revealed in this news ...
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Cargill has announced a U.S. $1.35 million, three-year partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) to provide support for the Bilibiza Agriculture Institute (IABil) in order to enhance and expand educational possibilities for farmers in ...
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Say goodbye to that annoying buzz created by overhead fluorescent light bulbs in your office or residence hall. Wake Forest scientists have developed a flicker-free, shatterproof alternative for large-scale lighting. The lighting, based ...
UK-Rachel Bottomley of Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts(LIPA)has won this year's Michael Northen Bursary(MNB),picking up a GBP500 cash award. The Bursary is awarded annually to a student or recent graduate who has demonstrated ...
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