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Metro Atlanta colleges are enrolling and graduating more students than most major metropolitan areas in the U.S., according to a new study. Atlanta's success comes from soaring population growth and the rising national prominence of such schools as Georgia Tech. Read the study here. Source: Associated Press

The British are embracing facial recognition technology to help raise compliance with certain laws, but Americans and others may not be as enthusiastic. "[In Great Britain] there's just a large use of cameras in support of crime reduction in general," said Aaron Bobick, chairman of the School of Interactive Computing. Source: ABC News

The concept of "smart clothes" may sound like something out of James Bond or "Minority Report," but the enabling technology already exists. Though not much is available commercially yet, you can see prototypes of wearable technology in the Contextual Computing Group lab at Georgia Tech, which is in the forefront of research in this area. Look at photos of "wearable" computers here. Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution