For people who develop dementia, speaking more than one language tends to slow memory loss by as much as five years, compared to those who speak one language. Thomas Bak, of the University of Edinburgh and colleagues at the Nizam's ...
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has announced a global partnership between the social media network and other technology firms, with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. ...
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As part of Apple's iOS 7 preview, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue showed off some new Siri features coming to iOS. As part of the?iOS 7 overhaul, Siri has a brand-new interface, voice monitoring, and a ...
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Bananagrams is going global after securing distribution agreements in a further seven countries. The popularity of the fast paced word game already spans across 31 countries and it is available in seven different languages including ...
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Twitter is offering archives of tweets in 12 more languages as part of a global rollout of the facility. Users can now access their archives in Danish, Filipino, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, ...
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Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already ...
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To generate interest from developers, Akiban Technologies has released as open source its flagship database software, called Akiban Server. The company also released a connector for replicating a MySQL database within Akiban, and forged a ...
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On one hand,the$8 MyScript Notes Mobile from Vision Objects is yet another of the growing number of iOS note taking apps.However,it attempts to separate itself from the pack by focusing on handwriting as its mainwell,actually,its onlyform ...
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