Obama blasts Republicans over gun reform |
- Obama blasts Republicans over gun reform
- A Swedish Solar Startup's Nanowires Promise To Deliver A Big Energy Boost
- Data War Reaches The Supreme Court
- Money talks: April 8th 2013
- Why Can't Google Make Its Own Version Of Facebook Home?
- Defense Secretary Hagel to visit Israel this month: official
- Defense Secretary Hagel to visit Israel this month: official
- Australia PM eyes trilateral naval exercises with China and U.S.
- Australia PM eyes trilateral naval exercises with China and U.S.
- New leak found at Fukushima plant water storage pool: regulator
- New leak found at Fukushima plant water storage pool: regulator
- Europe Woes Dominate Talks With U.S.
- Measles Outbreak Hits U.K.
- Manchester United Signs Deal With Aon
- What’s the price of a life?
- Practice Fusion Moves Into ZocDoc Territory By Offering Appointment Bookings
- U.N. warns of risk of Mali war spillover in Western Sahara
- U.N. warns of risk of Mali war spillover in Western Sahara
- Isolation Feeds Paranoia in North Korea
- India use drones to protect rhinos from poachers
| Obama blasts Republicans over gun reform Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:07 PM PDT As US Congress returns from a recess, some Republicans pledge to use filibuster tactics to prevent a gun legislation. |
| A Swedish Solar Startup's Nanowires Promise To Deliver A Big Energy Boost Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:12 PM PDT A Swedish startup has figured out a way to increase the energy production of solar panels by 25% by using tiny wires made with gallium arsenide, an expensive material that excels at converting a greater amount of sunlight into electricity. |
| Data War Reaches The Supreme Court Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:15 PM PDT About 9 months ago – the DNA Spit Kit from 23andMe was $299. From their website today – it's $99. But who owns the resulting genetic data and the rights associated with that data? That's the issue now headed for the Supreme Court. Oral arguments are Monday. One of the primary goals of The Human Genome project (completed in 2003) was to identify the 20-25,000 genes in human DNA. The good news, of course, is that they succeeded and today about 84% of those genes remain free of legal encumbrance. The bad news is that about 16% of those genes are now protected by one or more patents – and we're losing more and more of our genes to the patent process each year. According to an article last week in The New Yorker (here) there are now… "… more than 4,000 genes that are covered by at least one U.S. patent. These include genes for Alzheimer's disease, colon cancer, asthma, and two in particular—BRCA1 and BRCA2—that are highly associated with breast cancer [the most deadly cancer for women in the Western world]" In the case of BRCA1 and BRCA2, the patents are held by Myriad Genetics. Any research, testing or experimentation on either of those two genes by any other company is in violation of Myriad's patents. |
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| Why Can't Google Make Its Own Version Of Facebook Home? Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:16 PM PDT Facebook's new mobile product, Home, is a clever idea. A level up from its current existence as an app on mobiles, it puts Newsfeed notifications on the phone's home screen so that people use Facebook more. The potential is a huge uptick in user engagement with Facebook, bigger ad sales, and for limited capital spend. |
| Defense Secretary Hagel to visit Israel this month: official Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:18 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will pay a first visit to Israel since taking office later this month to bolster the allies' cooperation in the Middle East, an Israeli official told Reuters on Tuesday.      |
| Defense Secretary Hagel to visit Israel this month: official Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:18 PM PDT
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| Australia PM eyes trilateral naval exercises with China and U.S. Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:14 PM PDT
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| Australia PM eyes trilateral naval exercises with China and U.S. Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:14 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Australia is hoping to see trilateral naval exercises with China and the United States and is pursuing new strategic partnership with Asia's biggest economy, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday.     |
| New leak found at Fukushima plant water storage pool: regulator Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:40 PM PDT
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| New leak found at Fukushima plant water storage pool: regulator Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:01 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear regulator said on Tuesday another leak was found in Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc's (Tepco) underground water storage pool at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where contaminated water was being transferred from an already leaking pool.     |
| Europe Woes Dominate Talks With U.S. Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:56 AM PDT Europe's deep financial woes, from its troubled banks to the latest euro-zone upset in Cyprus, dominated the talks U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew held with European Union leaders in Brussels. |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:14 PM PDT The U.K. is experiencing an outbreak of measles among unvaccinated children, prompting warnings from health officials and long lines at emergency vaccination clinics. |
| Manchester United Signs Deal With Aon Posted: 08 Apr 2013 05:26 PM PDT Manchester United and Aon have signed an eight-year sponsorship deal worth $240 million that will see the English soccer club's training ground renamed and its practice jersey rebranded. |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:57 PM PDT It's going to be hard for the Defense Department to meet the challenges laid out by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey. "We can't afford excess equipment," Dempsey said at a March 28 news conference. "We have to reform how we buy weapons and services. We have to reduce redundancy." Read full article >>   |
| Practice Fusion Moves Into ZocDoc Territory By Offering Appointment Bookings Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:05 PM PDT Capitalizing on its customer base of 60,000 doctors, electronic health record provider Practice Fusion launched a free booking and review service for physicians and their patients. More than 27,000 have already signed up. Fast-growing appointment booking site ZocDoc does not disclose the number of doctors who use its service, but it is believed to be less than 30,000. Electronic health record vendor athenahealth partners with review site Vitals, in which it also has an investment. Patients who book through the newly created Patient Fusion site, and complete a doctor's visit—a process the company verifies, can post a review on the doctor's page. "We know whether the doctor is real, and all of our reviews are based on visits that happen. There's a lot more integrity," says Ryan Howard, Practice Fusion's founder and chief executive. To promote greater transparency, Practice Fusion doesn't allow doctors to only use the appointment booking service. They must also agree to submit to reviews. "They can't cherry pick," says Howard who adds that only a handful of doctors complained. Last year, Practice Fusion started collecting reviews from patients seen by doctors on its EHR, accumulating 1.5 million reviews. Recently, it contacted doctors about booking appointments online, making the pitch about freeing up staff, and scheduling more patient visits. For April alone, there are 3 million open appointments. |
| U.N. warns of risk of Mali war spillover in Western Sahara Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:10 PM PDT
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| U.N. warns of risk of Mali war spillover in Western Sahara Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:10 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The conflict in Mali threatens to spill over into the disputed territory of Western Sahara and the Polisario Front independence movement has warned the United Nations of the possibility of "terrorist infiltrations," the U.N. chief said in a new report.     |
| Isolation Feeds Paranoia in North Korea Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:39 PM PDT Capital Journal: He may well be inexperienced, delusional and even a bit crazy, but North Korea leader Kim Jong Eun isn't entirely irrational if he's feeling hemmed in and isolated, Gerald F. Seib writes. |
| India use drones to protect rhinos from poachers Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:33 PM PDT
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