Apparently plasma knives, surgical instruments which have glowing, ionized gas as a blade, have passed Special Operations Command’s field testing and evaluation stages. Great! Now how much longer until this tech can be used to make real lightsabers? The plasma knives are vaguely similar to tools currently used in radiosurgery, but rather than heating tissue directly and damaging it, they penetrateand cauterize it safely
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Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery [Lightsabers]
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In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now they’ve realized that they made a little mistake and have been giving people eight times the acceptable doses of radiation
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Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months [Health]
Well, everyone knew it was coming, thanks to heavy and repeated leaks , but Walt Mossberg just unofficially officially published a little hands-on preview, with an official photo, of the device. So what didn’t we know? In a phrase, not much
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The Heavily Leaked BlackBerry Storm 2 Gets Unofficially Officially Announced [BlackBerry]
Esquire has the Nth feature on unmanned air vehicles changing the face of war . The opening photo, however, is a sleek, quite unique view on the dome that houses all the sensors is a Reaper UAV. Cool, deathly design.
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The Eye of Death [Image Cache]
The AT&T vs. Google Voice debate has gotten much more interesting/entertaining, thanks to a letter from AT&T to the FCC, loudly trashing Google—and even the FCC themselves, for allowing Google to run rampant.
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AT&T: Google Is So Evil, They Even Block Calls to Nuns [Google Voice]
Today Apple released Performance Update 1.0 for Leopard and Snow Leopard , aiming to fix the intermittent hard drive problems reported by some users. We’d love to hear if it actually fixes those issues this time —let us know! [ TheLoop ]
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Apple’s Performance Update 1.0 for Leopard and Snow Leopard: Addresses Hard Drive Issues [Apple]
Google spilled some choice Chrome OS guts yesterday, leaving us with a heap of files to sift through. The best part? They included the browser
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Linux Users Can Try the Chrome OS Browser Right Now [Btw]
Google spilled some choice Chrome OS guts yesterday, leaving us with a heap of files to sift through.
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Linux Users Can Try the Chrome OS Browser Right Now [Btw]
Opening today, Epcot’s Sum of All Thrills ride will change every time you ride. That’s because you’ll draw your design on a touchscreen computer before hopping on.
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Design Epcot’s Newest Roller Coaster Each Time You Ride [Rides]
If you thought your IT job was filled with annoying questions, try working for Florence Henderson ’s new FloH Club . It’s a telephone-based tech support service for old people
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Carol Brady Creates The Worst Tech Support Job On The Face Of The Earth [Tech Support]
