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Who needs a controller when you can just use your free hands to control games and other electronics around you?   One of the new up and coming technologies that is being researched is a technology that uses a muscle-computer interface. Microsoft, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of Toronto have all teamed up to research and develop this technology.   The gesture recognition software decodes messages from … Read More

If movie watching is on your list of things to do this holiday season then you need to check out the list below of the new movies coming out in November.   Disney’s A Christmas Carol- November 6th Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth). But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, … Read More

Twenty-five percent of the U.S. population now owes a collective $700 billion in student loans. New numbers from the U.S. Education Department show that federal student-loan disbursements—the total amount borrowed by students and received by schools—in the 2008-09 academic year grew about 25 percent over the previous year, to $75.1 billion. Scholarships have never been more important. But it may be surprising to learn that not all colleges will treat your scholarship the same way. In order to avoid even … Read More