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Submission + - Meet The Bionic Teenager From Apple's WWDC Video (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by redletterdave
redletterdave writes: Patrick Kane was born in London with all 10 phalanges, but lost all of the fingers from his left hand at just 9 months old after contracting a virulent form of meningitis called meningococcal septicemia, which is an infection in the blood stream that’s often fatal. Kane received passive prostheses over the years, but as he entered his teenage years in 2010, he reached out to Scotland-based Touch Bionics and began the process to be fitted with the company’s robotic prosthetic technology, called “i-limb.” Now, the 17-year-old Londoner is wearing a state-of-the-art prosthesis with a wide range of grips all controlled by a unique iOS app that offers flexibility and customization but also training to optimize the device and troubleshoot it when problems arise.

Submission + - D-Wave Quantum Computers Able to Demonstrate Entanglement (bbc.com)

Submitted by lecoupdejarnac
lecoupdejarnac writes: A study published by the peer-reviewed journal Physical Review X shows that D-Wave's quantum computers are able to attain at least 8-qubits of entanglement:

"Dr Federico Spedalieri of University of Southern California's Viterbi Information Sciences Institute and co-author of the paper, said: 'There's no way around it. Only quantum systems can be entangled. This test provides the experimental proof that we've been looking for.'"

Submission + - Lawsuit: Tuition should be free (savecooperunion.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a unique college in New York City that has provided a full-tuition scholarship to every enrolled student for over 150 years. Its founder, Peter Cooper, who wanted to provide talented youth with opportunities, secured an enormous endowment for Cooper Union that now includes the Chrysler Building. ÂAfter a series of fiscally imprudent steps, including building an expensive new building without first securing adequate financing, not following through on a promised 10% expense reduction, and excessive administrative compensation and expenses, the Board of Directors, in a split decision, decided to charge tuition beginning September 2014."

"The Committee to Save Cooper Union is pursuing legal action as a last resort after Cooper Unionâ(TM)s Board of Trustees and administration proceeded with their plans to abolish a 150 year tradition of free tuition, refusing alternatives that would preserve free tuition."

Submission + - MIT Researchers Creates 3D Printed Self Assembling Robots (3dprint.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at MIT have found a way of creating 3D printed robots, which assemble themselves once placed in an oven. The printer prints the robot in a flat form, with slits within the material. When heated the slits forces the material to deform, assembling the shape of the robot. More details: http://3dprint.com/4836/3d-pri...

Submission + - Porn Star Runs against Crack Head for Toronto Mayor (nydailynews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Continuing its way down a long and ridiculous path the Toronto mayoral race heats up. Porn star Nikki Benz has thrown her 'hat' into the ring. Which begs the ever popular question "Who would you rather" Only in a slightly different context.

Some of her clever campaign slogans include:
"'Trade in your Ford for a Benz!"
"may lower my top now, and as Toronto Mayor I'll lower property taxes."

One wonders if a real candidate in the race will have any chance to get noticed along side all the absurdity that is flooding the media.

Submission + - Curved TVs Nothing But A Gimmick (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: Currently, the hottest trend from TV manufacturers is to offer curved panels, but analysts say it's nothing more than a ploy to pander to consumers who want the latest, coolest-looking tech in their home. In the end, the TVs don't offer better picture quality. In fact, they offer a degraded view to anyone sitting off center. Samsung and LG claim that the curve provides a cinema-like experience by offering a more balanced and uniform view so that the edges of the set don't appear further away than the middle. Paul Gray, director of European TV Research for DisplaySearch, said those claims are nothing by pseudo-science. "Curved screens are a gimmick, much along the same lines as 3D TVs are," said Paul O'Donovan, Gartner's principal analyst for consumer electronics research.

Submission + - YouTube releases the Google Video Quality Report (cnet.com) 1

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: YouTube releases the Google Video Quality Report, a tool that shows how your video-streaming quality compares to your neighbor's.

The Google Video Quality Report is available to people in the US and Canada, where it launched in January. It compares your streaming video quality to three standards: HD Verified, when your provider can deliver HD video consistently at a resolution of at least 720p without buffering or interruptions; Standard Definition, for consistent video streaming at 360p; and Lower Definition, for videos that regularly play at less than 360p or often are interrupted.

Submission + - NSA "Knows the way you think" (siliconbeat.com)

Submitted by mspohr
mspohr writes: “As you write a message, you know, an analyst at the NSA or any other service out there that’s using this kind of attack against people can actually see you write sentences and then backspace over your mistakes and then change the words and then kind of pause and — and — and think about what you wanted to say and then change it. And it’s this extraordinary intrusion not just into your communications, your finished messages but your actual drafting process, into the way you think.”

More information here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature...

Submission + - Will Giant Pyramids Save the World?

Submitted by LoLobey
LoLobey writes: Scott Adams has proposed a pyramid project to save the world via energy generation and tourism. Basically build giant pyramids, miles wide and high, in the desert to generate power via chimney effect and photo voltaics with added features for tourism (he’s planning ahead for when robots take over all the work and we’ll need something to do). He’s been big on a few “Big Ideas” lately (canals, ice bergs, ion energy), it appears he wants to save the world, or at least make it a better place. Pyramid idea seems borderline feasible, but impractical. What do you guys think?

Submission + - Microsoft demos real-time translation over Skype (technet.com)

Submitted by Z80xxc!
Z80xxc! writes: Today at the first annual Code Conference, Microsoft demonstrated its new real-time translation in Skype publicly for the first time. Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft's VP of Skype and Lync, compares the technology to Star Trek's Universal Translator. During the demonstration, Pall converses in English with a coworker in Germany who is speaking German.

Skype Translator results from decades of work by the industry, years of work by our researchers, and now is being developed jointly by the Skype and Microsoft Translator teams. The demo showed near real-time audio translation from English to German and vice versa, combining Skype voice and IM technologies with Microsoft Translator, and neural network-based speech recognition.

Submission + - The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event (io9.com)

Submitted by SpaceMika
SpaceMika writes: We just saw something bright in the Andromeda Galaxy, and we don't know what it was. A Gamma Ray Burst or an Ultraluminous X-Ray Object, either way it will be the closest of its type we've ever observed at just over 2 million light years away. It's the perfect distance: close enough to observe in unprecedented detail, and far enough to not kill us all.

Submission + - U.S. Military's 'Iron Man' Suit Prototype Could Debut Next Month (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: The military could soon have its own "Iron Man" suit, a robotic exoskeleton designed to augment human abilities on the battlefield.

A prototype of the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS, is expected to be available in June, and a more complete version should be ready between 2016 and 2018, according to Battelle, a science and technology research institute headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

In addition to the TALOS, Battelle is helping develop other innovative technologies such as robotic underwater vehicles, digital "heads-up" displays and a de-icing aircarft coating.

Submission + - Bartenders Video Show. (myvideo.de)

Submitted by Janet Willson
Janet Willson writes: Bartenders is the first social media platform that linked Owners, Patrons and their hospitality Staff like Bartenders, Servers, Host, Hostess, Managers, Security, PR, Promoters, DJs, Gogo Dancers and promotional Models to connect & network with each other, along with the dynamic digital hub that keeps fans informed with activities across the Globe.

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