Recently, researchers at the Institute of Neurology at University College London stimulated the brains of human subjects to push the brain toward beta band frequencies associated with focus to study the effects on motor processing, with the hope of helping those with Parkinson's disease.

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Beyond the obvious applications, the improvement of backend processing in the cloud coupled with WebRTC will make all manner of real time video and audio effects possible.

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Second-hand Asian flu: Xilinx's and Altera's customers are primarily in the data processing, communications and networking industries--all of which are suffering some effects from the Asian meltdown.

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Best of all, sequencers provide nondestructive processing: they don't permanently apply your edits and effects to the audio tracks you've recorded unless that's what you want.

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