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You'll Soon Be Able to Buy a Firefox Phone

You'll Soon Be Able to Buy a Firefox Phone | Science News | Scoop.it

Mozilla has been making some small moves into mobile with the Firefox browser for Android, but today the company announced much bigger plans: Firefox OS, previously known as "Boot to Gecko," is an entirely new operating system for smartphones. The OS will be based on Linux, but all apps will be entirely browser-based, built on HTML5, like Google's Chrome OS.

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"Change deafness" - the scant attention we pay to the voice on the end of the phone

"Change deafness" - the scant attention we pay to the voice on the end of the phone | Science News | Scoop.it

Our perception of the world is so restricted by the brain's finite attentional resources that large changes to the visual scene can occur without us noticing. Psychologists have studied this extensively and they call it "change blindness". But what about our limited vigilance to the world of sound? In a new study, Kimberly Fenn and her team have tested whether people notice when, mid phone-conversation, the person they're talking to changes. They found that unless there was a change of gender, most people didn't notice they were talking to someone else - a phenomenon the researchers call "change deafness".

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Holiday customers will be tracked by their phones

Holiday customers will be tracked by their phones | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Black Friday shoppers in California and Virginia might learn their phones are being tracked as they move along the mall.
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The new gesture technology that could kill the touchscreen

The new gesture technology that could kill the touchscreen | Science News | Scoop.it
Qualcomm demos new tech Qualcomm has demoed a new gesture system at its Innovation Qualcomm event in Istanbul. It allows the user to control an inte...
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