Archive | June, 2014

In what is hailed as a world first for robots, a Canadian robot dubbed “hitchBOT” hopes to be the first to hitchhike across Canada this July. Wearing bright red boots and yellow garden gloves (with one in a permanent “thumbing a ride” gesture), hitchBOT is going to try to use his good looks, artificial intelligence ….Read More

      According to the CDC, around 48 million people in the US get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die as a result of foodborne illnesses every year. One of the main culprits is listeriosis (or listeria), which is responsible for approximately 1,600 of these illnesses and 260 deaths. Now researchers at the ….Read More

    (CNN) — Perhaps the most interesting kick of the World Cup so far comes from a young adult who is paralyzed from the waist down. Clad in a metal vest, sporting a blue cap dotted with electrodes, he kicked off the world’s biggest soccer championship in an exoskeleton. It was, according to the scientist ….Read More

Apple may be set to end its use of the standard 3.5mm headphone connector — the mini plug — in favor of its proprietary connector, the Lightning port. If it was to do that, new iPhones, iPads and iPods wouldn’t work with old headphones. It’s had more than a few industry folks and Apple fanatics upset, to ….Read More

The medical professionals at Spotless Vein Care offers several types of treatment for varicose veins   .  Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi has had extensive experience in the laser treatment of varicose veins and has been involved with micro-invasive treatment of vascular disease. All of these procedures are done in an office setting under local anesthesia (affecting only the area ….Read More

Rejoice! The folks in charge of USB standards appear to have settled on a design for the much-anticipated USB 3.1 Type C connector. For starters, there’s no “right way up” – that alone will trigger a sigh of relief from many of us. Both ends of the cable will be the same, it’ll make an audible “click” ….Read More

    Who would have thought that a button would have meant so much to so many people? On Wednesday at its developers conference, Microsoft announced that after bringing back the Start button, it’s now rolling out a package of new features for the Windows 8.1 update and Windows Phone 8.1. Based on customer feedback, ….Read More