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Submission + - Senate gives green light to fuel-efficiency bill?

Submitted by schmaustech on Friday December 14, 2007 @09:24AM

schmaustech writes: The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill their tanks with ethanol. This bill "will begin to reverse our addiction to oil. It's a step to fight global warming," said Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Too little too late? Story: http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/13/news/energy_bill.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007121319

Feed Auditory nerve implant could drastically benefit deaf individuals (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday June 10, 2007 @07:52AM

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Early last year, gurus at the University of Michigan were devising a newfangled type of cochlear implant, but now it looks like the Wolverines are more interested in a fresh auditory nerve implant that is being dubbed "a superior alternative" to the (now) old fashioned option. The uber-thin electrode array would purportedly "transmit a wide range of sounds to the brain," and could give profoundly and severely deaf people the ability to "to hear low-pitched sounds common in speech, converse in a noisy room, identify high and low voices, and appreciate music." Researchers on the project are convinced that this technology trumps cochlear implants in every way, and while preliminary patents have already been filed, it'll still be nearly a decade at best before these things can invade human ears en masse.

[Via Physorg]

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Submission + - Terrorists must register before entering U.S. (usatoday.com)

Submitted by Soft on Sunday June 10, 2007 @07:44AM

Soft writes: Citing Islamist terrorists traveling with European passports as a threat to America, the Secretary of the DHS announces that visitors to the U.S. under the Visa Waiver program will have to register online 48 hours in advance, and fill out a questionnaire. According to other articles, this would include personal data such as previous travel destinations and credit card number; this in addition to data already requested directly from airlines, from name and address to luggage ticket number and frequent flier miles collected. Presumably the questions will also include whether the traveler intends to blow himself up in the coming 90 days, or has ever done so in the past? The questions on the back of Form I-94 also come to mind.

Feed Balance chip keeps you rock steady (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Sunday June 10, 2007 @05:32AM

An implantable chip may one day restore a sense of balance to people who have lost theirs to accident or illness

Submission + - dreamhost leaked 3500 ftp account passwords (suspectedterrorist.net)

Submitted by m1ndrape on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @01:17PM

m1ndrape writes: Appears Dreamhost has leaked 3500 ftp account passwords. A blogger has posted an email detailing what has occurred and what actions customers should be taking.

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