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Researchers in the UK have designed a game that can improve users’ concentration, with a version being released today as part of the Peak Brain Training app for free.
The team that developed and tested the game, called Decoder, from the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute have demonstrated that playing it for eight hours over a one-month period...
For those trying to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases, there may be no more powerful tool than a mobile phone to identify “superspreaders” of viruses.
“There are more cell phones than people, and, in most urban areas, network coverage is close to 100 percent, hence we can get very accurate measurement and sampling of the population,” Jon Crowcroft, a professor of networked systems at the...
