Those "medical grade" non-invasive thermometers aren't accurate enough to measure the temperature differences surrounding ovulation. It's incredibly difficult to measure core temperature accurately without going invasive, especially in a home setting.

Some authors write beautiful sentences and are a joy to read. Those are incredibly difficult to translate and the human translator should be seen as almost a co-author, as for example the marvellous Dutch translator Martin de Haan who transposes the works of French writer Michel Houellebecq, known for his elaborate prose. However other authors write compelling stories with inspiring insights and exciting plot lines, but use ordinary language. Those are a prime candidate for AI translation, as the quality of sentences isn't the most important part of the work.

This effect could also occur for regular conception. IVF provides a way to measure this impact because you know the moment of conception and can easily compare different groups in similar circumstances. This is much more difficult for natural conception. Air pollution could have a major impact on fertility in general.

Most of the returned items from Amazon are not restocked or repaired, but destroyed. Because it is too expensive to test if the returned item was unused or repairable. Designing the packaging for easier return, inspection, and restocking would save a tremendous amount of waste.

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is." - Bill Clinton in his testimony to the grand jury

Is this Slashdot or WrestleMania? Since when did "destroy" mean to have a 20% advantage in comparative benchmarking?

You still need some way to get audio streamed to your amplifier, and Google cancelled their otherwise brilliant Chromecast Audio for unclear reasons. Do you have recommendations on how to stream audio from Spotify and other online sources to your amplifier?

The design fits with the trend of erecting a wall between the driver and other people. It is not a humanistic design. It fits with the trend of designing militaristic and bigger vehicles, intended to intimidate other people. Sure, it feels safe and powerful if you are inside, but as a citizen I would like to recognize drivers as fellow human beings instead of monster robots.

The EU is well aware that recycling targets hinder innovation, and that is why they are only applied in a very limited way. When flat screens were introduced, the recycling rate was 0%, because recyclers didn't have the technology to recycle it. But this is spurring innovation and now those screens are massively recycled. So recycling technology always follows product innovation.

My favorite is the "Great Disappointment" of 1844, which, after the end time didn't happen, spawned a couple of new movements: Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Q: Why is Christmas identical to Halloween?

A: Because Dec 25 equals Oct 31.

The influence of big media companies on the judicial system is exactly the reason why the German Pirate Party now has seats in 4 out of the 16 regional parliaments. My German friends say they feel oppressed by the legal harassment they face from law firms, extorting money from ordinary citizens in return for not being sued for large sums of money.

Don't worry, ASML is offering equity stake to TSMC and Samsung as well: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4389932/ASML-in-talks-with-Samsung-TSMC-on-equity

We tried this in Holland and it doesn't work. 200 cameras were installed in the Rotterdam region to catch criminals, but a recent report showed the police is NOT using it to catch criminals, because they have no clue what to do with all the data. Instead, the tax agency uses the cameras to go after unpaid taxes and unpaid fines. Installing cameras will lead to function creep, loss of privacy and another step towards a POLICE STATE. See http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/543419/1/1/50/kentekencamera-pakt-geen-criminelen.html&usg=ALkJrhhvrWudYxPDrjVbVqd1Tm317MS-MQ

Prostate cancer surgery and hysterectomies is already done with robots and 3D vision. 80% of prostatectomies in the US are done with the "Da Vinci" robot in a procedure called Robot Assisted Laparascopic Prostatectomy. The surgeon operates the robot through a console with 3D vision. http://www.davinciprostatectomy.com/davinci_prostatectomy/index.aspx