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Surveillance video becomes a tool to help business owners study customer behavior

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Software from Prism Skylabs processes surveillance footage to show how busy a place is without compromising customers’ privacy.

Giants like Amazon and Google have led the huge success of online shopping and advertising thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pages and what you click on.  Prism Skylabs is a startup that offers brick-and-mortar businesses the equivalent—counting, logging, and tracking people in a store, coffee shop, or gym with software that works with video from security cameras.

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Big Problems, Business, Globalism, government, Hot Issues, Internet, Twitter

Twitter to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis

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Some Twitter users are planning to go all of Saturday without tweeting to show their displeasure.

There are fears of Twitter censorship among bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America as new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

iPad can be a pain in the neck: study

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Harvard study finds the iPad is putting a lot of strain on the neck muscles.

A record breaking 15.43 million iPads have been sold by Apple in the last three months of 2011, which means a lot of people are starting to use tablet computers. And with last week’s news that Apple is planning to bring textbooks to the iPad — well, that’s a lot more people who may start to use tablets, too.

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Analysis, Great New Product, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Pacemaker under tongue may stop snoring

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The Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation System, works by stimulating the nerve which controls the muscles of tongue.

Scientists have come up with a new pacemaker-style device which they claim when implanted underneath one’s tongue could help stop snoring. A team claims that the new implant, called the Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation System, works by stimulating the nerve which controls the muscles of tongue, thus helping reduce the severity of sleep apnoea, a major cause of snoring.

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Analysis, Business, Education, Science & Technology News

Apple’s iBooks 2 initiative for the priviledged few could leave most children behind

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Apple’s iBooks 2

Apple’s new iBooks 2 initiative has the potential to vastly improve the K-12 learning experience.  They will offer attractive digital textbooks with interactive features like videos, animations, definitions, flashcards, and quizzes. But, with the proprietary nature of the software it means that publishers, parents, and schools will be locked into Apple’s ecosystem.

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Globalism, Nanotechnology, Photo Perspectives, Record Breaker, Science & Technology News

World’s smallest 3D map of the world

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The world’s smallest map is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2 and was created in only 2.23 minutes.

Zurich scientists have created the world’s smallest 3D map – of the world.  IBM’s perfectly formed ‘nano-world’, has now been accepted by the Guinness World Record organization.  (Pics)

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Globalism, Science & Technology News

Global showdown over push to abolish leap second

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Leap seconds are necessary to prevent atomic clocks from speeding ahead of solar time.

Governments are headed for a showdown after ten years of talks as they vote this week on an issue that pits technological precision against nature’s whims.  The United States, France and others are pushing for countries at a U.N. telecom meeting to abolish the leap second, which for 40 years has kept computers in sync with the Earth day.

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