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Surgeons use Microsoft’s Kinect for more accurate cancer surgeries. by TG Daily: Doctors at a Canadian hospital are using the X-box Kinect during cancer surgery, to speed up operations and reduce the risk of contamination. The Sunnybrook Hospital doctors use the hands-free controller to manipulate images, rather than having to leave the sterile area around … Read more
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U.S. underwrites internet detour around censors. by New York Times: The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks. The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone … Read more
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Bitcoin, the first decentralized peer-to-peer virtual currency. by Reason TV: Bitcoin is the world’s first fully decentralized, peer-to-peer (p2p) virtual currency. It allows users to make anonymous and untraceable cash transactions anywhere in the world without any sort of real-world intermediary. So unlike PayPal and other online services, it can’t be squeezed in the same … Read more
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Scientist develops new and free way to send large files around the Web. by Physorg: ZendTo is a free and secure, Web-based system, which will allow users to send large files much faster than by email. The system allows users to send files within and beyond their organisations from their own servers with no size … Read more
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Google lobbies in Nevada to legalize driverless cars. by Physorg: Google has hired lobbyist David Goldwater to represent the company in its push to legalize the running of autonomous vehicles on Nevada roads; this comes less than a year after announcing that it had been running live tests of its self-driving vehicles on California roads. … Read more
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Companies helping to censor the Arab internet. by The Atlantic Wire: While the U.S. State Department spends millions of dollars helping people in the Middle East circumvent Web censorship, a handful of California companies are providing autocratic Middle East regimes with the technology to censor the Web, reports The Wall Street Journal. The global Web-security … Read more
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Lab creates 2 inch block to replace cell phone towers. by New Jersey Real Time News: Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerTod Sizer of Little Silver, head of wireless research at Bell Labs, holds a life-sized wooden mock-up of the light radio cube he designed in front of a cell tower near his home in Little Silver. The … Read more
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IBM’S Watson being configured to help hospitals. by GOOD.is: Today IBM announced a partnership with Nuance Communications that will explore how Watson’s speech recognition and analytical skills, paired with the ability to quickly index data from case studies and medical histories, could help with diagnosis and treatment in a hospital setting. According to The New York … Read more
