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	<title>New Media Dispatches</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>It&#8217;s good to talk</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/19/its-good-to-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New devices that enable deaf people to have a greater level of participation in phone calls and meetings have been developed by UK organisations.
One of the organisations Teletec, a Bedfordshire-based company, will launch two services to help those who are hard of hearing to use their own voices, by incorporating Internet devices and voice recognition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian conflict portrayed in game</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/18/palestinian-conflict-portrayed-in-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conflict zones might not occur to you as the best starting point for creating a game but Global Conflict: Palestine is aimed at bringing to life some of the issues in the Middle East in a bid to educate people. 
Based in midst of the conflict in the Palestinian territories, the game depicts a young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog for Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/17/blog-for-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Trust are encouraging people to record a day in their lives on their website. Thousands of people in the UK are expected to participate in the project, which aims to create an online archive of people&#8217;s diaries in the country.
The project is being called &#8220;Britain&#8217;s Biggest Blog&#8221; by the National Trust, and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The MASTOR of languages</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/16/the-mastor-of-languages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM has developed a system that translates Arabic into English to improve communication between the U.S Army and Iraqi civilians.
The two-way speech-to-speech translation system, named MASTOR (Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator) has been installed onto the 35 Panasonic Toughbook laptops that are used by the military.
MASTOR aims to bridge the language barrier between Iraqi citizens and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya laptop Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/12/libya-laptop-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/12/libya-laptop-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Libya may become the first country to provide every school-age child with a laptop computer and Internet connection, through a scheme supported by the UN Development Programme.
The government of Libya is reported to have agreed a £134m deal with an American non-profit group, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) to provide 1.2m school children with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sichuan Luck</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/11/sichuan-luck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/11/sichuan-luck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese specialities such as Sichuan duck, crispy wonton and crab meat and sweetcorn soup, can now be prepared by a robot made by Fanxing Science and Technology Co.
The company, based in Shenzen, south China, have developed the people&#8217;s first cooking robot, bestowed with skills to prepare thousands of traditional dishes, says the state news agency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic GSCE&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/10/electronic-gsces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/10/electronic-gsces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students are now able to take their first GCSE online, submitting coursework and completing exams electronically. 
The exam is being made available through OCR, an examining board, and is the first to be completely &#8220;e-assessed&#8221;. 
The board said it would &#8220;transform the future of school examinations&#8221;. Pupils taking the new environmental and land-based science course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot developed for baldness</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/09/robot-developed-for-baldness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/09/robot-developed-for-baldness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has awarded a £1.85 million grant to a UK biotechnology firm based in Cambridge, to develop a robot to help treat baldness.
Intercytex has successfully tried and tested a method of removing hair follicles from the back of the neck, multiplying them and re-implanting the cells to the area needed. 
The company stated that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay as you throw</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/05/pay-as-you-throw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/05/pay-as-you-throw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many rubbish bins in the UK are being fitted with microchips to test drive possible &#8220;pay as you throw&#8221; schemes. This scheme is one of the latest attempts to encourage more recycling, controlling the amount of  rubbish that ends up in landfill.
More than 30 councils are participating such as Harrow, Peterborough and Alnwick. Local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video games as a learning aid</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/04/video-games-as-a-learning-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2006/blog/archives/2006/10/04/video-games-as-a-learning-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Li-mei Hoang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Video games could play an key classroom role according to a new report based on a survey of almost 1,000 teachers and more than 2,300 primary and secondary school students in the UK.
The report found that 59% of teachers would consider using off-the-shelf games within the classroom, while 62% of students wanted to use games [...]]]></description>
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