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Scientists Make Fish Grow "Hands" In Experiment Revealing How Fins Became Limbs
SkivinatorThis never happened. Close your eyes quick before your mind becomes corrupt. Evolution is a myth and a dumb one at that.
Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering
SkivinatorOf note.
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People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever
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Apollo Veteran: Skip Asteroid, Go To the Moon
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Motorola's retreat continues, sells factories in China and Brazil to Flextronics for $75 million
SkivinatorSo you're telling me they made the purchase for the patents...
Mere hours after Motorola announced that it was pulling out of South Korea, it's revealed a deal to sell its Chinese and Brazilian operations to Flextronics for $75 million. We won't blame you if you've not heard of the manufacturer, which has previously built XBox and Zune units for Microsoft as well as Kodak's digital cameras. While the stack of cash will go straight to plug the hole in Motorola's coffers, Flextronics has also bought first dibs on future smartphone production, something that CEO Mike McNamara says could be worth "several billions" in revenue down the line -- hopefully the next time Larry utters the words "Motorola" and "Nexus" in the same sentence.
Filed under: Cellphones, Google
Via: The Next Web
Source: Flextronics (PDF)
Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer
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High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech
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Researchers devise contact lens with built-in LCD (video)
SkivinatorThis will be an upgrade that I will pay out the nose for.
Another day, another step towards technologically tricked out contact lenses. The latest development comes from researchers at the Centre of Microsystems Technology at Ghent University, who've developed a prototype lens with an embedded, spherical curved LCD that isn't limited to a paltry amount of pixels. As opposed to LED-based solutions which could only muster a few pixels, the newly-developed screen can pack enough to display graphics that cover a contact. In its current form, the display can show simple patterns, and demonstrates the technology with a simple dollar sign. What appears on the lens wouldn't be visible to folks who wear it, however, since eyes can't focus at such a close range. Despite the limitation, researchers are tying to tackle the focusing issue and are assessing the feasibility of a version that would effectively act as a heads-up display. In the future, the tech could be leveraged for medical purposes, such as controlling light transmission to the retina when the iris is damaged, cosmetic uses and -- you guessed it -- HUDs. With the technology's foundation established, it's expected that real-world applications are potentially a few of years away. Hit the jump to catch a video of the tech in action.
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NZBMatrix Closes Their Website
SkivinatorI think the days of public trading may be becoming a thing of the past.
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Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid
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Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk
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Tour the Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum (Video)
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