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Submission + - Techs next big shot in the arm

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: This is the big secret about Obamacare: It is pushing the health care industry to spend unprecedented money building out shiny new technology that is going to do amazing stuff. We're witnessing the creation of a vast, new nationwide digital health information platform, for which entrepreneurs can develop entirely new kinds of applications. "The consumer apps are literally a game-changer," says Len Nichols, a health economist at George Mason University. He and others believe we're heading into an epochal health tech boom that will ripple through society.

Submission + - Banker offers $1M to solve Beal Conjecture

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: A Texas banker with a knack for numbers has offered $1 million for anyone who can solve a complex math equation that has stumped mathematicians since the 1980s. The Beal Conjecture states that the only solutions to the equation A^x + B^y = C^z, when A, B and C are positive integers, and x, y and z are positive integers greater than two, are those in which A, B and C have a common factor. Like most number theories, it's “easy to say but extremely difficult to prove.”

Submission + - First 'Bionic' Dog Receives Four Prosthetics After Losing Paws

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: A mixed-breed dog who lost his four paws after being stricken with frostbite has been given a second chance at living a normal life with his new prosthetic paws. Naki'o's surgeries went without a glitch. A medical pioneer, he's believed to be the first "bionic" dog, with prosthetics on all fours.
Medicine

Submission + - Social Isolation Shortens Lifespans Of Loners

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: But in a recent study that collected 6,500 people from the United Kingdom, researchers found that the debilitating emotions from loneliness and infrequent contact with loved ones and friends could shorten a person's lifespan.
"We were thinking that people who were socially isolated but also felt lonely might be at particularly high risk," Andrew Steptoe, lead author and professor of psychology at University College London, told NPR.
Privacy

Submission + - Bloomberg: Survelance Drones Inevitable

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: Surveillance drones have many benefits, but privacy isn't one of them. Though the public has grown increasingly concerned with the government's domestic usage of drones, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes the issue is "scary" but inevitable. "You can do it from further away, you can see more, you can do it continuously, you can do it undetected in ways you couldn't before," Bloomberg said. "And al Qaeda can do it too. It's a scary world. Everyone wants their privacy, but I don't know how you're going to maintain it."
Science

Submission + - Evolution challenged with new dates

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An international team of researchers has found evidence challenging existing views about the timescale of two major events in human evolution: the first migration out of Africa, and the dating of "mitochondrial Eve,' the last common ancestor of all humans along the matrilineal line.
Businesses

Submission + - ZeekRewards, Zeekler Users 'In Shock' as service declared Ponzi Scheme

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: Users of ZeekRewards.com and Zeekler.com are searching for answers — and their lost money — after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the sites' owner, Paul Burks, with an alleged $600 million Ponzi scheme.

"I was in shock," said a Zeek member who used the site for five months but asked to not be identified because of the ongoing investigation. "I thought it was going to be a rather simple inquiry and investigation and they would reveal to the attorney general that it was a very profitable business model and that everything was going to be OK."
Security

Submission + - China Has 'Back Door' Access to 80% of World Communications

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: The Chinese government has access to 80 percent of the world's communications, a former pentagon analyst has claimed.

Using equipment supplied by Chinese electronics giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE corporation, the People's Liberation Army and the government have "back door" access to a vast majority of the world's electronic information, including sensitive military and intelligence data
Security

Submission + - Kaspersky warns on growing proliferation of cyberweapons

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: In Israel, where computer hacking has become something of a national sport and young hackers are cultivated to become members of elite army technology units, Eugene Kaspersky, a world-renowned cybervirus sleuth who visited the country last week, got a very warm reception.

But Kaspersky's message was anything but cordial.

"I'm afraid it's just the beginning of the game, and I'm afraid it will be the end of the world as we know it," Kaspersky said during a press conference after speaking at the International CyberSecurity Conference at Tel Aviv University.
Space

Submission + - 'Stacked' Space Station Photos Highlight Star Trails

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: A scientist aboard the International Space Station took extraordinary photos of the start scape from aboard the vessel, using a special technique that highlights their movement.

"Modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image," Pettit explained.

"To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”
Science

Submission + - Blind Mice Can SeeAfter Scientists Regrow Nerves

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: Three blind mice (and a few more) are running a little bit better now, thanks to a group of scientists that were able to coax the nerves in their eyes to regrow.

Larry Benowitz, a professor of surgery and ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been working on nerve generation in mice for years. His latest experiment involves mice blinded in one eye after their optic nerves were artificially damaged.

The technique for making the retinal ganglion cells grow again requires three elements. "It's a proof of principle that rewiring the visual system may be possible."
Medicine

Submission + - Teen Diabetes Rate Soars

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: The number of teens with diabetes and pre-diabetes is soaring, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Between 2000 and 2008 the number rate of diabetes in teens and adolescents increased from 9 percent to 23 percent — an increase researchers said is "concerning."

"To get ahead of this problem, we have to be incredibly aggressive and look at children and adolescents and say you have to make time for physical activity," Larry Deeb, pediatric endocrinologist and former president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association.

Submission + - Ancient Female Genitalia Carving Could Be Older Than Cave Of Forgotten Dreams'

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: A one-and-a-half metric ton slab of limestone found at the Abri Castanet site in southwestern France is speckled with tool marks and carvings — including one of female genitalia — that could be the oldest wall art ever discovered. a team of American and French anthropologists say the carvings on the slab, which once formed part of the roof of a rock outcropping that ancient humans used for shelter, appear to have been created about 37,000 years ago.
Apple

Submission + - Why Steve Jobs Mattered to Tech

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: Steve Jobs died on Wednesday, he was 56 years old.
Jobs recently quit as CEO of the company he co-founded and made into a world leader is because the end of his life is near. His body is breaking down and, as usual, neither he nor Apple will discuss it. Just because he's gone doesn't mean he's leaving the company bereft.

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