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From VNUnet: Scientists in Australia have used internet links to successfully perform microsurgery on cells located thousands of miles away in a southern California laboratory. The surgeons used a newly developed internet-based laser scissor-and-tweezers technology called RoboLase, demonstrating the potential of using the technology for real-time research activities between laboratories and to perform medical procedures …
I had posted previously about a service that lets you upload a file to the web. You can then send a link to someone where they can download that file. Well, another similar services is from Putfile.com: Putfile is a FREE dedicated digital media hosting service. Here you can upload videos and images to the …
From Time: What does 13-year-old Taylor Hern ♥? Lots of things: the actor Ewan McGregor, the color pink, the band My Chemical Romance, her boyfriend Alex. You would know all that if you visited her Xanga, a blog–home-page hybrid that is the modern teen’s public and interactive equivalent of a diary. You could even leave …
From CNN: Sgt. William Hamrick II witnessed the birth of his daughter Monday. That may seem unremarkable — except that Hamrick was 6,000 miles away in Iraq. When doctors induced labor Monday morning at Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital in Parkersburg, Hamrick was virtually at his wife’s side via live Internet video and satellite audio link. The …
From TechRepublic: When eBay’s clocks failed to jump forward an hour in 2001 to reflect daylight-saving time, the timing on auctions ran into snags, prompting some head-scratching from sellers and bidders. At the time, eBay blamed the glitch on a bug in Microsoft’s Visual C++ code. Microsoft had released a fix. On Monday, President Bush …
Are addicted to a certain web site or to certain software? Then maybe you need help… I’m in front of my computer constantly and a program I’ve been wanting for a long time is one that would allow me to block certain programs from myself for a set amount of time. A way for the …