In the study, researchers told two short stories to 33 people. After
one story, the participants sat in a room with their eyes closed. After
the second story, they played a computer game. Seven days later, the
people who zoned out were able to recall more of the story details.
After learning something new, your brain automatically replays the
information to form a new memory. But learning something new interferes
with this process, the study explains.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Irish heroine of Batman shooting spree drowns
US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle paid tribute to Jenny
and her colleagues who are credited with saving the lives of some of
those injured in the massacre.
PHD student James Holmes has been charged in relation to the shootings which left 12 people dead.
However, her family has now been plunged into a sense of grief of their
own. Jenny was out swimming in a lake close to her home when she is
believed to have drowned.
Her husband Greg Pinson and five-year-old son Jack are struggling to come to terms with the loss of a "wonderful mother"...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera.
Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in.
Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Underground sect found after nearly a decade
The sect members included 20 children, the youngest of whom had just
turned 18 months. Many of them were born underground and had never seen
daylight until the prosecutors discovered their dwelling on 1 August and
sent them for health checks...
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Spy Hawk
The Sky Hawk offers a range of up to 600 metres with an average
flight time of about 15 minutes on a single 7.4v lithium-ion polymer
battery. All you need to do is put a few pieces together, charge the
battery and you’re ready to fly. Made from EPO crash resistant foam, it
should be able to withstand a few minor bumps and thanks to it being
such a reasonable size it’s easy to carry around with you. It’s perfect
for a trip to the park, field, seaside or anywhere else you’d like to
get a great bird’s eye view.
Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system
Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities
and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the
spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified
central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with
other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the
brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with
elite from America’s intelligence community. The employee roster at
Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other
government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and
the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented...
A Persistent Hacker and the Destruction of an Online Life
Mat Honan, a senior writer at Wired
and a former senior reporter for Gizmodo.com, learned the hard way on
Friday evening that hackers had taken over his entire online life. They
took over his Twitter account. They cleaned out his entire Google
account and Gmail inbox. His iPhone, iPad, and MacBook were completely
wiped. He has lost years of files and, more important, photos of his
daughter.
"I was in my daughter's bedroom and I was playing with her and I saw the
phone power down. At first I thought the battery died. I went and
plugged in the phone and when I did that I got the 'activate your phone'
screen," Honan told ABC News in a phone interview. Honan then grabbed
his MacBook and saw alerts that his Google account password was
incorrect. His MacBook then powered itself off. When he grabbed his iPad
he got the same screen...
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