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Submission + - Gordon Murray's F1-Style Batmobile Unveiled[VIDEO] (gizmocrazed.com)

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Mightee
Mightee writes: "The latest version of the Batmobile has been unveiled, and it looks Awful!! Designed by Gordon Murray of the McLaren F1 Team, the car produced for Batman Live World Arena Tour, has been unveiled at the "Batman Live" stage show in Europe.

Unlike previous versions of the Batmobile, this one is based on a Formula 1 car design containing a couple of lithium batteries and a hydrogen fuel cell to make the car environment efficient.

Other features include a carbon fibre body, front-mounted lasers and virtual wheels ringed in LEDs — diodes fitted in the wheel create a high voltage field, that can lift the car 40mm off the ground."
Medicine

Submission + - Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother (singularityhub.com)

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kkleiner
kkleiner writes: "Led by Dr. Mats Brännström, a team of surgeons at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden are giving Sara Ottosson, now 25-years old, hope that she may one day fulfill her dream of giving birth to a baby. The uterus will come from a very special donor: Eva Ottosson, Sara’s mother. Sara’s operation will mark only the second time transplantation of a uterus has been attempted in humans, and the first time between a mother and daughter."

Submission + - Electronic Health Records Now In All Mil Hospitals (informationweek.com) 7

Submitted by smitty777
smitty777 writes: Information Week is reporting on the the inclusion of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in all US military hospitals. This is significant in that it allows the sharing of patient information on a worldwide scale, improving care. This is leading a national trend, which is currently motivated by HIT Meaningful Use legislation which provides incentives for civilian physicicans to adopt EHRs. Not that the adoption is without challenges. The usability of EHRs is also an ongoing concern.
AI

Submission + - MAVIS brings search to audio (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: The Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System (MAVIS) has been running on a trial basis for a while and it extends search to audio material. It uses speech recognition to transcribe audio sources and then indexes them for use by standard search engine.
Not only does this let you search audio recordings but video sound tracks as well. There is also an API that means it can be built into other applications.
Of course being able to index audio files is just one step away from being able to index phone calls in the same way....
Google

Submission + - Google +1 Button for Websites (flashuser.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A week ago, Google launched the +1 button for websites that can be placed anywhere on your web pages via a short code snippet. Use the +1 button to publicly show what you like and recommend content to your friends and contacts.
Security

Submission + - RSA admits SecureID tokens have been compromised (net-security.org)

Submitted by dinscott
dinscott writes: RSA has finally admitted publicly that the March breach into its systems has resulted in the compromise of their SecurID two-factor authentication tokens. The admission comes in the wake of cyber intrusions into the networks of three US military contractors: Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications and Northrop Grumman.

No additional details about what the RSA attackers did steal that allowed them to misuses the tokens, but it seems likely that both the seeds that link every token to a specific account and the algorithm that calculates the numeric sequence generated by the token.
NASA

Submission + - Harrison Schmitt recommends NASA be dismantled (examiner.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Schmitt is proposing to start from scratch, by taking NASA's deep space exploration efforts and putting them in a new agency. That agency, which Schmitt has dubbed the National Space Exploration Agency, or NSEA, would focus on missions to the moon and beyond.

"After 50 years NASA has gotten old, it has become more bureaucratic," said Schmitt. "It's time I think to take the critical national security functions and geopolitical functions out of NASA and put them in a new agency."

Schmitt added that in its current state, "NASA does not have the focus it needs to contribute to the exceptionalism of America and to the geopolitical strength that we must have in the world."
Japan

Submission + - Japan reverses raised recess radiation (latimes.com)

Submitted by
mdsolar
mdsolar writes: "Japan's Education Ministry has pulled an about-face, returning exposure limits for schoolchildren 1 millisievert a year. Officials will also pay for removing surface soil from affected schoolyards."
Iphone

Submission + - Samsung wants to see iPhone 5 and iPad 3 (tekgoblin.com) 1

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "The suit against Samsung that Apple had filed back in April has been full of surprises recently and Apple even asked to see all of Samsung’s future devices. Now in a recent turn of events, Samsung is now requesting to view Apple’s upcoming devices such as the iPad 3 and iPhone 5."

Submission + - Japan's MagLev Get Go Ahead (japantoday.com)

Submitted by ThinkPad760
ThinkPad760 writes: The Japanese government has finally given approval to build the long awaited MagLev train linking Tokyo and Osaka via Nagoya.
But don't hold your breath. Construction will start in 2014. The Tokyo Nagoya section will be completed in 2027 with the final section to Osaka complete by 2045.
I was hoping my wife could buy me a ticket as my retirement present, but looks like I have a wait a couple of years after that.

Submission + - Ditching the cell phone for VOIP

Submitted by claar
claar writes: I'm almost always near a Wi-Fi connection, so I'm about to cancel my phone service, grab a mobile hotspot with a low data cap for those rare occasions when I'm not near Wi-Fi, and use one of the various apps for calling POTS lines. I figure my wife and I will end up paying $40 to $60/month — a far cry from our current charges.

Has anyone else done this? What apps and mobile hotspots have worked well for you? I just don't understand why I don't hear about more people doing this — enlighten me?
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Rumoured To Buy Skype For $7.5bn (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by jhernik
jhernik writes: Microsoft is said to be close to a deal to buy VoIP service Skype, in what would be its biggest-ever deal

Microsoft is reportedly close to a deal to buy Skype for between $7 billion (£4.2bn) and $8 billion (£4.9bn), in what would be its largest-ever acquisition.

But the deal is not yet complete and could still fall apart, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported the possible deal in its online edition. The blog GigaOm also reported Microsoft’s interest in Skype.
Earth

Submission + - Japan:Caesium measured, melt down may have started (nhk.or.jp) 5

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "A japanese media broadcaster (NHK) as well es German tagesschau.de and Reuters report a possible start of a melt down in Fukushima 1/1 as caesium, a by product of melt downs was measured near the reactor: 'The government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says nuclear material cesium has been detected near the Number One reactor at the Fukushima Number One nuclear power plant. The agency says the detection indicates that some of the nuclear fuel at the reactor may have started melting, because cesium is produced during a nuclear chain reaction' (NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation)."

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