Scientists Link Computer Games To Brain Damage
News Latest research has found that children who play computer games could be causing long-term brain damage. Scientists working at Tohoku University in Japan have discovered that computer games only stimulate those parts of the brain that are devoted...
[August 20, 2001, 15:45]
Games Industry Guns Down Brain Damage Claims
News Scientists from the Tohoku University said last week that children who spend lots of time playing computer games could be causing long-term brain damage, and might not develop the ability to control their behaviour.
[August 22, 2001, 17:26]
Is Apple On The Way Out?
Talkback Brain damage. A brain damaged Editor is the only way to explain this drivel. Suitable for the National Equirer or The Sun - not Ziff-Davis "where technology means business. Lack of vertical growth is not a sign of utter doom.
[October 13, 2004, 23:42]
Putting Your Brain On A Microchip
News Scientists from around the world talked about projects ranging from digitally mapping the human brain to developing microcircuits that can repair brain damage. Theodore Berger, a professor of biomedical engineering and neurobiology at the...
[May 12, 2006, 11:35]
Mobile Risk: Could Cancer Lawsuits Come To Europe?
News If mobiles were found to cause brain damage, then the first-time importer would be liable. Dr Chris Newman, a neurologist from Maryland, claims that frequent use of his Motorola mobile phone between 1992 and 1998 caused a brain tumour.
[August 4, 2000, 10:20]
Schools Panic Over WiFi
Blog Comment Statistically significant increased risk was found for all brain tumours from mobile phone usage, mainly acoustic neuroma and malignant brain tumours. This is a mechanism where the radiation appears to be causing cause actual DNA damage.
[November 22, 2006, 10:16]
Mobile-phone Industry: Tumour Study 'very Selective'
News The mobile industry has hit back at a neurosurgeon's study that claimed there is evidence of a link between mobile phones and certain types of brain tumour. Khurana, a neurosurgeon based in Australia, recently completed a 15-month study that he...
[April 1, 2008, 14:22]
Schools Panic Over WiFi
Blog Comment But the Times picked up on the attention grabbing WIFI CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE headline. The way to solve it is by explaining what the technology is all about. An access point is not the same as a basestation in every classroom, they have significantly...
[November 22, 2006, 10:32]
Schools Panic Over WiFi
Blog Comment I think you'll find that the Times article was not "WIFI CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE", but in fact "Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks" -- somewhat less sensationalist I'm sure you'll agree.
[November 22, 2006, 11:19]
BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
News Trials on the treatment of brain and skin tumours have taken place and the system is now being extended to the treatment of breast cancer. The control offered by the device allows clinicians to treat tumours with minimal damage to surrounding tissue.
[December 3, 1998, 14:19]
UK Mobile Phone Users Hits 40 Million
News Some experts went further: writing in The Lancet, scientist Dr Gerard Hyland warned that mobile phones exert subtle non-thermal influences on living organisms, which could also affect a number of brain functions.
[January 5, 2001, 6:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Which sounds ominously like the way the brain works, with its neurons constantly reconnecting and rerouting. Not only will it have a justifiable grievance at its lot in life, but it'll have to put up with the sort of damage that does for us humans.
[May 9, 2003, 12:37]
Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer Launched
News We want the brain drain to flow into Germany, rather than towards the US, and we hope that the whole of Europe can benefit," said Lippert. We can model trace gas concentrations, or monitor the damage to the ozone layer over the Arctic," explained...
[March 14, 2006, 7:25]
Apple IPocket: The Second Coming (Part 2)
News The British are obsessed with frying their brain cells with mobile phones, and Apple fans demanded some nifty way of combining a mobile's capability into the iPocket. Awright, wassa damage gov? Surprisingly, cost didn't seem to put people off.
[August 31, 1999, 7:30]
Schneier: Beware Security Products
News The brain is just barely functioning in the security community. If events are high damage and rare it's difficult to get data. A leading security expert has warned businesses to beware of buying shoddy security products.
[October 23, 2007, 17:12]
'Stages.worm' On The Loose
News Tall, dark and handsome with money and a brain. The bug, called 'Stages.worm', does not damage computer files but can shut down corporate e-mail servers. While there is some concern that employees arriving on Monday morning may be fooled into...
[June 19, 2000, 14:29]
