The US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple 23 patents, including one for an embedded heart-rate monitor that might just be of interest to those on the watch for all things iWatch. Contine reading
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The Brain Is Mightier Than the Camera When Remembering Art
As museums swarm with visitors snapping photos in their galleries, new research suggests people who take pictures of art with their camera phones remember less about the works than those who don’t. Contine reading
Nokia Lumia 720 – Full Review
The Lumia 720 is bang in the middle of Nokia’s line of Windows Phone 8 offerings. It aims to offer some of the premium features found in the Lumia 920 (Review | Pictures) and Lumia 820 (Review |Pictures) at a price that’s pocket-friendly like that of Lumia 520 (Review | Pictures) and Lumia 620 (Review | Pictures). Contine reading
The True Origin of Christmas
Every year after Thanksgiving, most people’s thoughts turn to Christmas. It is the time when professing Christians are supposed to focus on Jesus Christ. After all, it is the “Christ-mass” season! Contine reading
New Evidence That Computers Change the Way We Learn
“Computers produce this problem that screens are of different sizes and mice have different gains,” says Konrad Kording of Northwestern University and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. “We want to quickly learn about these so that we do not need to relearn all possible movements once we switch to a new computer. If you have broad generalization, then you need to move the mouse just once, and there you are calibrated.” Contine reading