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How many hours should kids play with video games, according to science

November 1, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Research on the effects of video games is a mess. Sorry to be so direct, but it is. On the one hand, there is evidence that video games can improve cognitive abilities and emotional young (and not so young). On the other hand, there are numerous studies that link them with behavioral problems, violence and an increased risk of developing addictions.

The battle between those who think that video games are the wrong done bits and those who believe they are a good thing dates back to the popularization of the first games in the seventies. Although, as always, there are intermediate positions: a team of researchers from CIBERESP argues that the key is not whether we play or not play video games, but how we do it and, above all, in how we play.

2 Tips to Improve How Photos Are Used on Blogs or Websites

October 26, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Most blogs and websites nowadays have shifted towards a more visual approach – often using photos heavily. Odds are you may even be doing the same on your blog – but the question is: Are you really getting the most out of how you use these photos?

Much of the knowledge of NASA is now available to all for free

October 10, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

In recent years we have seen how NASA has changed many of its policies to adapt to changing times, this has served to, for example, all images belonging to the agency in the public domain and anyone can use them at all situations, which is now extended to an important part of their research.

NASA is releasing the vast majority of their research publicly funded will be available on a new website, which can be accessed free of charge from anywhere in the world and thus navigate the information contained in projects ranging from the mission of finding life on the moons of Saturn, pending the physiological effects of astronauts who have lived on the International Space Station.

This is the complex technology that allows us to listen in the deep sea

September 27, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Analyze the sounds that occur in the ocean is not a simple task. This activity has even been compared to space exploration; the difference is that in space there are several companies and agencies investigating, while the ocean is still pending and subject to some unknown point. Listening underwater work currently focuses on three disciplines: marine biology, geology and geophysics, and military activity.

For this type of underwater research succeed calls are used hydrophones, also known as underwater microphones, which are devices designed to capture and locate sources of sound in water, where its complexity and its wide range of possibilities make their use key for various tasks. Today we will know a little more about them and some of its major holdings.

Your monitor can also hack to spy or make you see things that are not

September 20, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

We have spent some time discussing about the safety of peripherals such as webcams, and a few weeks ago also commented that had vulnerabilities that made it possible attacks through radio wireless keyboards. But there are other components of our PC, such as monitors, nor usually considered dangerous or a door through which attacked.

But a group of researchers has discovered a method that can hack our remote monitor. This not only could play the pixels is showing, can spy without agreeing to our PC, but could also manipulate these pixels to display different images on our monitors.

The artificial brain is getting closer: IBM created the first artificial neurons phase change

September 17, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Although we have long been talking about computers as artificial brains, actually it has always been a metaphor. Although less and less. IBM has managed to implement a system of 500 artificial neurons with phase change technology they want to simulate the performance of organic brains. In a way that never before had gotten.

For years, scientists have tried to imitate the versatile computing capabilities of neurons. Today, it seems that is the only way to take a step beyond artificial intelligence projects that are underway and that promise to change the world.

iPhone revenues fall 23%, the worst quarter in the history of Apple device

September 1, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

2016 being a difficult year for Apple, the slowdown in your business is sticking significantly, which is maximized when more than half of their profits depend on a single product, the iPhone, which for this new quarter has fallen again Apple dragging the second consecutive quarter in its history.

Apple is presenting the financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended in late June, which show revenues of 42.358 million dollars, a fall of 15% over the same period last year, all derived from a considerable drop in sales in virtually all its products.

SoftBank purchase ARM for 24,300 million pounds to gain prominence in the IoT

August 23, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

British chip developer ARM Holdings has confirmed this morning that it has accepted a takeover offer from Softbanc, the Japanese multinational telecommunications and the Internet. The operation was carried out by 24,300 million pounds as reported this morning the Financial Times.

This operation becomes the largest acquisition of a European technology company, with which the Japanese operator hopes to lead one of those expected to be of the greatest technological markets in the coming years, the Internet of Things. SoftBank will pay 17 pounds in cash for each share in ARM.

Although moderate, follows the drop in computer sales according to Gartner and IDC

August 19, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

We recently came the rumor that Microsoft was preparing an all in one (also all-in-one or AIO) could be the newest member of the Surface family. A rumor that besides being surprised by something new in the line of hardware so does the company to take the course of computers. A sectors we saw earlier this year continues of a drop in sales and remains the same, although at a different pace.

Here again it touches learn not by the manufacturers, but by analyst firms like IDC and Gartner, which often provide clues both distributions computers and other devices. In the second quarter of 2016, we see it is that again a drop in sales is recorded, although somewhat less pronounced than in the previous one.