This franchise helped sell the PS3 and the games have continued to push the processing power of the console.

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The big push that we needed after the hurricanes at the processing level is not over, but it's not near as what it was because people have come back.

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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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