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The University of Florida is not the first college to offer a course in 'StarCraft,' but it is the first to offer one that at least pretends to have some intellectual value beyond boosting your APM (actions per minute) rate. EME2040, or 21st Century Skills in 'StarCraft' is being taught by Nate Poling, and uses the blockbuster real-time strategy game as a tool for teaching lessons about time ...

As Pete Carroll or Reggie Bush could tell you, working around the NCAA's semi-ridiculous rules on recruiting high school football players can be a pretty arduous task. And, apparently, it gets even more difficult when Facebook's involved. Last month, the football program at the University of Florida was slapped with secondary NCAA violations, simply because one of the team's coaches posted ...

Some things in life were made to be done quickly -- the 100-meter dash, 'Dance Dance Revolution,' and the blog post, to name a few. Please notice that a vasectomy reversal is not on that list. Doctors at the University of Florida, though, have broken the record for the world's fastest robotic vasectomy reversal, an achievement that some experts are heralding as a breakthrough and others are ...

Florida is turning into a hotbed of identity theft and credit card fraud. According to CNET, this week brought news of three major security breaches in Florida that have put the personal information of tens of thousands of regular citizens in danger. First, Best Buy discovered that an employee at a West Palm Beach location may have been using a device to skim data off of credit cards as they were ...

Brain-machine interfaces have done quite a bit in helping handicapped individuals interact with prosthetic limbs, computers and other humans, but a new neural implant concocted at the University of Florida could make all those past devices look archaic. Put simply, researchers have discovered a method that would enable brain-machine interfaces to "adapt to a person's behavior over time and use ...