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Intel’s Skoool software brings study materials to healthcare workers in developing countries

When we consider Intel’s contributions to developing nations, it’s hard not to hone in on the 5 million-plus Classmate PCs it’s shipped over the past four years. This time, at least, Intel is leaving the hardware part of the equation to the Lenovos and HPs of the world and focusing on the software instead. The […]


Cambridge researchers tout new location-based method to predict friends on social networks

Friend suggestions on social networks may already be a little too eerily accurate for some, but a team of researchers from Cambridge University now say they can do one better. They’ve devised a method that doesn’t simply rely the usual friends-of-friends approach, but on where those people tend to hang out. According to researcher Salvatore […]


Verizon says its LTE network is back ‘up and running’

Well, it looks like this week’s other massive outage is now officially behind us — Verizon just issued a brief statement to let us know that its 4G LTE network is now “up and running.” Details on exactly what caused the outage remain light, however, with the company only saying that “network engineers and vendors […]


BrainGate hits 1,000 day mind-control milestone, nearly three years of pointing and clicking

Aspiring Svengalis rejoice! For BrainGate has reached a significant landmark in computational thought-control — the 4 x 4-mm implantable chip has given a woman with tetraplegia the ability to point and click with her brain for 1,000 days. An article recently published in the Journal of Neural Engineering said the woman, known simply as S3, […]