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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15 2009, @04:29PM
from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Comment: luckily (Score 1) 100

by opusman on Thursday July 09 2009, @04:00AM (#28633611) Attached to: World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed

Luckily there's not much chance of him ever needing a double bed, because that would be a real pain in the ass to rewire.

Comment: Aliens! (Score 1) 206

by opusman on Wednesday June 10 2009, @04:23AM (#28276991) Attached to: DIY 18-ft.-High Robotic Exoskeleton

I've always wondered why no one has built a loader a la Aliens yet. Surely it wouldn't be beyond current tech and I'd imagine it would be amazingly useful (not least for fighting Alien queens!)

Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India 355

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 06 2009, @07:12PM
from the back-to-spontaneous-generation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently Microsoft is censoring search results for Bing in India and other countries. If you try to search for the term 'sex,' along with lots of variations, from India using Microsoft's new search engine, an error message is returned that says, 'the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.' There's no preference setting or toggle-on-or-off choice; you simply cannot search for the term 'sex' in India if you are using Bing. While a user still can change their country and try the non-Indian version of Bing, this seems like an unnecessary step and unnecessary censorship on the part of Microsoft. Apparently Google has no problem with Indians searching for the term 'sex.'"

South Africa Rolls Out Biometric Passports 60

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 19 2009, @01:40AM
from the rfids-please dept.

volume4 writes "The South African Department of Home Affairs has begun rolling out security enhanced passports to new applicants from this week. A facility in Pretoria which prints the new passports was officially opened last week by the minister of home affairs, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. The new passports have an embedded RFID chip which stores the owner's biometric information, including personal details, a high-resolution colour photograph and fingerprint information."