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  1. VIDEO A virtual reality scent system that fools human taste

    Can you fool the human sense of taste in the world of virtual reality? Up until recently that question was impossible to answer, most because it had not been tested. Most of virtual reality relied on sight and sound. Virtual touch is also a fairly new area of research. Now, with the help of your...
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  2. Can data stored on an SSD be secured?

    Study finds the task to be very difficult; overwriting or crypto-erasure seem the best methods for sanitizing SSDs Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it's more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that on hard disk drives (HDDs)...
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  3. Windows 7 Gamers have good brains

    Link Removed due to 404 Error Shoot-em-ups can make fast decision makers Boffins at the University of Rochester have worked out that first-person shooter players are better at making fast, accurate decisions based on evidence extracted from their surroundings. They have also...
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  4. Windows 7 Video game success may be in the mind, study finds

    If you find video games a struggle, it could be to do with the size of certain parts of your brain, a study suggests. US researchers found they could predict how well an amateur player might perform on a game by measuring the volume of key sections of the brain. Writing in the journal...
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