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...April 24, Lehe had heart surgery to insert a metal device through a catheter in his thigh and into the hole between his atria. The surgeons also inserted a camera in his throat to monitor their progress...
...passenger chooses not to engage an Interactive Taxi monitor, it will run loops of advertising, which a rider can mute. But if the rider touches the screen, the ads move to the right while the left side offers ways to get information of every kind from news headlines to hotel listings. In the future, Interactive Taxi hopes to enable consumers to order advertised items by swiping a credit card through a scanner attached to the video screen...
Will nanomachines one day be launched into our bloodstreams to monitor health and combat disease? Or will "self-replicating nanobots" proliferate out of control until they completely overrun the planet? A runaway plague of rogue nanobots wouldn't violate basic scientific laws, but that doesn't make it realistic. This extreme outcome is not likely, but it's not impossible either - and that's exactly what critics of the technology are worried about. It is foolhardy to venture predictions about what science will achieve this century. Scientific predictions have been notoriously awry in the past. In 1933 Lord Rutherford...
...guns for criminals or fail to investigate bulk purchases. Immunity removes incentives for gun manufacturers and dealers to do business responsibly, and it therefore compromises the safety of American citizens. The gun industry—indeed any industry selling potentially dangerous products—has an extra responsibility to monitor its sales. The legislation now under consideration in the Senate strips gun dealers and manufacturers of this responsibility...
...convenient debit system to purchase more than $5 million worth of junk food, textbooks and Harvard wares. But earlier this month, two student hackers at universities with systems like Crimson Cash revealed that they had discovered serious security weaknesses that, according to the students, allowed them to monitor transactions and could potentially allow them to charge expenses to the accounts of others. The system’s provider and the University must act quickly and firmly to correct this glitch to ensure the privacy and property of Crimson Cash users...