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Study: Violent Video Games Prep Gamers for Real-Life “Headshots”

May 22, 2012
Study shows conclusively that gun controllers train shooters; was Jack Thompson right?

AMD’s Trinity Offers 46% Better Battery Life than Ivy Bridge

May 22, 2012
Every battery test done on Trinity compared AMD’s reference test systems with retail shipping Ivy Bridge notebooks from different manufacturers.To stick to the correct principles of benchmarking, when comparing two devices inside a system, the main system should be exactly the same. Only the performance di... (read more)

‘Heckerty’ stories come to life on tablets, phones (podcast)

May 21, 2012
Larry Magid speaks with Jan Ziff, the co-creator and voice of Meet Heckerty, an iOS and Android app based on a popular British children's story. [Read more]

Engineer Looks to Create Real-Life USS Enterprise in 20 Years

May 15, 2012
The Star Trek-like Gen1 ship will be capable of reaching Mars in 90 days and the moon in three days

Great Pacific Garbage Patch affecting sea life

May 9, 2012
An increase in plastic debris floating in a zone between Hawaii and California is changing the environment of at least one marine insect, scientists report.

Intel futurist discusses data’s secret life, ‘ghost of computing’

May 8, 2012
Science fiction serves as a inspiration for the man whose job it is envisage Intel's future and, to a large degree, the future of computing itself. [Read more]

Hands-on AT&T Digital Life: A carrier secures your home

May 8, 2012
AT&T is branching out to home security you can control with your smartphone or tablet. Here's how it'll look. [Read more]

Aboriginal pictographs digitally enhanced back to life

May 7, 2012
Aboriginal elders and Parks Canada archaeologists have just completed a two-year project to photograph and interpret several ancient pictograph sites along the foothills and mountains in Alberta and B.C.

AT&T Introduces Digital Life Services for PC/Mobile-Controlled Home Security

May 7, 2012
AT&T plans to test the system out in a series of trials beginning this summer in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas, Texas

The $399 iPad 2 boasts better battery life, says report

May 4, 2012
Some variants of Apple's lower-priced iPad 2 can deliver improved battery life -- but they're not easy to find. [Read more]

Life-saving defibrillators can fail unexpectedly

May 3, 2012
Automated external defibrillators can save a life after cardiac arrest, but documents obtained by CBC News show 562 cases of the devices failing, with sometimes deadly results.

Facebook’s ‘life-saving tool’ — an organ donor feature

May 1, 2012
The wide-reaching social network now offers the ability to share whether you are an organ donor, in the hopes that this will save more lives on a daily basis. [Read more]