CAIRO (AP) — A senior Health Ministry official says clashes overnight between police and supporters of Egypt’s ousted president have left at least seven people dead.
Khaled el-Khateib also says 261 people were injured in the violence that broke out late Monday and carried on into the early morning hours of Tuesday in four different locations in the capital, Cairo.
Thousands of supporters of Mohammed Morsi, who was overthrown by the military, were protesting to press their demands that Morsi be reinstated as president.
Elecom is going to release the USB 3.0 compliant a dime-sized ultra-small USB flash drive “MF-SU3 series” (8GB, 16GB, 32GB) in mid July.
Since it’s extremely compact (W21.5xD12.2xH4.6mm), you might be concerned about accidentally dropping or misplacing it. If so, you can attach a strap to the strap hole on the USB flash drive.
Compatible OS: Windows 8/7, Vista, XP, Mac OS X (10.6～10.8) Interface: USB3.0/2.0 Size: W21.5xD12.2xH4.6mm Weight: About 3g
If you can’t beat ’em, take ’em over. At least, that’s what Apple might be thinking, as rumor has it that Cook and co are in talks to acquire Primesense, the compnay which makes the 3D sensors used in Kinect.
Not that they weren’t pretty excellent already, but some major BBC channels are due to get 1080-line upgrades by early next year. UK viewers will get five new channels in total, with no need for any subscriptions (courtesy of Freeview HD, YouView and Freesat), including BBC News HD, BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, CBeebies HD and CBBC HD (so long as Mr Tumble can fix his make-up). The programming will match the standard-def counterparts and contribute a promised 250 hours of extra HD content per week. There’s also talk of broadcasting regional programs and variants in HD, although that proposal still has to be approved by the BBC Trust and could be a bit further off.
The newly engaged — as of May 2013 — Savannah Guthrie dropped by “The Tonight Show,” where she revealed that she nearly made a very, very big mistake. It’s not that she was going to say “no.” Instead, she almost had to tell her fiance, Mike Feldman, that she’d lost her engagement ring.
She said that when she first got the ring, it was too big. As such, she was frequently taking it off while performing various tasks. Then one day, she couldn’t find it.
“The panic is rising up. I call work like, can you please look in my office, maybe I left it there,” Guthrie said. She stuck her hand down the drain in the sink, sifting through guacamole and bean dip, and even dug through the garbage. It’s a good thing she was willing to get dirty to try and find it, because that’s exactly where it was.
BEIRUT, July 16 (Reuters) – Gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least six mediators sent to try to reconcile warring sectarian groups in the province of Homs, where people on opposing sides in Syria’s war had until now been able to coexist, residents said on Tuesday. The negotiators were from the National Reconciliation Committee, which the government set up to foster talks in a two-year conflict that has taken more than 100,000 lives. The killings, which happened on Monday evening in the village of Hajar al-Abyad, highlight the growing challenge of mediating between towns held by rebel groups and those controlled by pro-Assad militias known as “shabbiha”. Recent fighting in the rural territory of western Homs province, part of a strategic corridor between the capital Damascus and Assad’s strongholds on the Mediterranean coast, has frayed relationships between neighbouring communities and risks sparking a sectarian conflict in the area. Western Homs province is a combustible mix of towns from Syria’s long marginalised Sunni Muslim majority, which has supported the revolt against Assad, and towns that are home to minority sects that have largely supported the president. Christians and Alawites, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam to which Assad himself belongs, often cite fears of the rising power of hardline Sunni groups among the opposition. Assad’s forces, backed by Christian and Alawite militias, have been pushing a successful offensive in the area. Sunni rebels are now fighting back hard in order to maintain a foothold in the critical region. The six negotiators had been trying to set up talks between the Sunni town of al-Zara and the Alawite town of Qameira, which clashed for several days last week. “The Alawite militias ambushed the men, who are Sunnis, when they arrived in a nearby town to try to start talks. They began to suspect the team was secretly working with the rebels, because Qameira was hit with a surprise attack last week, and many soldiers were killed,” one local resident told Reuters. Most locals believed the team was killed with tacit approval from local government officials, the resident said, even though the men were from a state-sanctioned delegation. Video uploaded by the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights showed a row of corpses inside black body bags, riddled with bullets and covered in flowers. The western countryside was once a relatively calm region that served as a refuge for Syrians fleeing the fighting in larger cities and towns. Locals say reconciliation between different communities is growing increasingly difficult even in remote rural areas where locals had long been able to negotiate truces between residents, Assad’s forces, and the rebels. (Reporting by Erika Solomon; Editing by Giles Elgood)
Israeli news source Calcalist has a decent track record when it comes to acquisition gossip, even if the gossip itself sometimes comes to nothing. Bearing that in mind, the latest rumor is that Apple is “in talks” to buy PrimeSense, the company that worked with Microsoft to create the first-generation Kinect (but not Kinect 2.0) and which could potentially help Cupertino with new projects that require natural interfaces. The value of the acquisition is said to “probably” be around $280 million, although the source makes it clear these talks are at a very early stage. Whichever way things go, the immediate effect of a report like this is to add to the impression that PrimeSense has a future beyond the Xbox 360 — but, frankly, we already believed it did.
[Thanks, Ron]
Update: We just received a statement from PrimeSense, indicating that they don’t comment on rumors:
“PrimeSense is growing the company and currently has by far the leading 3D technology in the market, tier one prospects, strong revenues and a healthy cash position.
We are focused on building a prosperous company while bringing 3D sensing and Natural Interaction to the mass market in a variety of industries. We can’t comment on what any of our partners, customers or potential customers are doing and we are not commenting on rumors.”
This remote medical care robot for use in emergency situations, is under development by a research group at Waseda University, led by Dr. Hiroyasu Iwata.
“If a person receives an impact in an accident, there is a possibility that they could have internal bleeding. In emergency rooms, there’s a diagnostic method called FAST, using ultrasound imaging to check for internal bleeding. But that can’t be done until the patient reaches the hospital. So our idea is that this robot can be put on the patient in an ambulance, and while on the way to the hospital, it can be controlled by a doctor in a remote location. As there is ultrasound probe attached, this robot can be used to check for internal bleeding.”
This robot, which weighs 2.2 kg, can be attached to the chest area using a belt, and can be used anywhere as long as there is a network connection. So it could also be used in the home or remote areas.
To enable a physician at a remote location to operate the robot intuitively, it’s controlled using an iPhone, with the robot’s rotation and the ultrasound probe angle controlled by touch.
“The ultrasound probe is attached here, and as it moves, the ultrasound image appears like this. If there’s bleeding, that appears as black shadows like this. If the patient has internal bleeding, they’re in danger unless they get to a hospital. This system lets the physician know that.”
“One point about this robot is, you can change the probe angle freely, keeping the probe in contact with the body. So, even if the patient is moved, the robot moves with them. This means images can continually be sent to the physician at a remote location.”
“Before this robot can be used in emergency care, legal barriers must be overcome. So, what we’d like to do initially is use it for pregnancy check-ups. By doing that, if we make one more prototype version, we think the robot will become practical. In that case, we think this system could become practical within three years.”
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We’ve all been there: arrive in a grubby public rest room, realise there’s nowhere to hang anything, and be faced by the grim experience of dropping your possessions to the grimy floor. This folding hook could save you from that fate.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean investigators on Tuesday blamed rival North Korea for a cyberattack last month on dozens of South Korean media and government websites, including those of the president and prime minister.
The biggest piece of evidence linking Pyongyang to the attacks on June 25, which marked the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War, was a North Korean Internet protocol address found in some of the websites and malicious codes, South Korea’s Ministry of Science said.
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