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An Israeli medical imaging company has signed a deal with a Utah-based healthcare provider that could change the way we diagnose certain conditions. Zebra Medical Imaging is teaming up with Intermountain to work on a neural network that will compare…

Back in the day, I went to college and picked a career because I heard it paid really well. Turns out that was a lie, but whatevs. Now, I have that degree in Respiratory Therapy, and while I spent a long time working in the field, mostly all I remember from college are things like the hottie in my class that had a penchant for blue spandex dresses, how disturbingly in love with dissecting fetal pigs my anatomy teacher was, and to never stand at the end of a tracheostomy patient’s bed.

I also have a bunch of odd little factoids about lungs stored away just in case I end up on Jeopardy and a category is Cardiopulmonary Anatomy. Did you know that if you peeled your lungs open and laid all the alveoli (little balloon-like air sacs) and other airways out they would cover a tennis court? Surface area bros, surface area. If you want to celebrate the fact that you have lungs, this is the necklace you need.

It’s wooden, on a 17-inch chain, and has airways burnt into it. If you know a smoker, you could paint it black and give it as a gift.

It’s kind of pricy for a weird necklace at $25.99(USD) at ThinkGeek. It would totally make a Respiratory Therapist happy though.

Google wasn’t always in the business of offering wireless service, but it entered into this space with Project Fi, its virtual mobile network. There have been rumors that perhaps Apple would do something like this as well, but the company hasn’t really given any hints that might suggest it’s interested in launching a virtual mobile carrier. A new report claims Apple CEO Tim Cook has declared it unlikely for the company to offer wireless service.

9to5mac reports that Tim Cook made these comments at the Startup Fest Europe in Amsterdam today, he ruled out the possibility of Apple launching a mobile virtual network operator.

It was previously rumored that Apple was testing such a service, which would allow Apple to run its network off of the networks of established carriers like Project Fi does. The company was quick to deny these rumors in August last year.

“Our expertise doesn’t extend to the network,” Tim Cook is reported to have said in response to a question put forward by retired European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes, adding that “the things Apple likes to do, are things we can do globally.”

Cook also pointed out that “we don’t have the network skill,” but did mention that Apple will do some things along the way with e-SIMs, but that’s about it. We won’t be seeing an iPhone-only MVNO soon.

Apple Wireless Carrier Not A Possibility , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

It was reported a couple of weeks ago that Twitter is going to relax the rules related to its 140 characters limit for tweets. The company today announced that it’s going to allow users to express even more in 140 characters, meaning that it’s not going to count some things against the limit so that users can squeeze in more content in their tweets, without it having to remove the 140 character limit.

Twitter has religiously stuck to the 140 character limit ever since it was launched, it previously applied the limit to direct messages as well but last year it decided to remove the limit from DMs, but it hasn’t hinted at doing the same for regular tweets.

It’s taking other measures to enable users to express more in a single tweet. In the coming months, when replying to tweets, @names won’t count against the limit. Attachments like photos, GIFs, polls, videos or Quote tweets will also not count against the 140 character limit.

Twitter is also going to enable the retweet button for own tweets in the coming months, allowing users to easily retweet or quote tweet themselves. It hasn’t said when the changes will take effect, it only mentions that all this will be happening in the next few months.

Twitter is doing away with the “.@” convention as well which currently allows users to broadcast their tweets broadly. Soon, new tweets that begin with a username will reach all followers instead.

Twitter Details What Won’t Count Against 140 Characters , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Dave Mirra, the legendary athlete who helped popularize BMX in the world of extreme sports, suffered from chronic brain damage when he died in February.

Neuropathologists from the U.S. and Canada confirmed that Mirra suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease that can lead to depression, memory loss and dementia, ESPN Magazine reported. The disease manifests itself when people suffer frequent blows to the head, and has shown itself in the brains of dozens of football players. The NFL just recently admitted that there is a connection between football injuries and CTE.

Mirra’s family asked to have his brain studied for CTE after the athlete died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Greenville, North Carolina, on Feb. 4. 

“It validates what we have been thinking about brain injuries in boxers and football players,” Dr. Lili-Naz Hazrati, a University of Toronto neuropathologist who helped diagnose Mirra’s CTE, told ESPN Magazine. “The key is brain injury. Regardless of how you get it, through BMX or hockey, you are at risk for this.”

Mirra joins a growing list of professional athletes who have suffered from the disease. 

Earl Morrall, former NFL quarterback for the Baltimore Colts, died in 2014. In February, his family confirmed that Morrall had stage-four CTE.

Bubba Smith, an All-Pro defensive end in the NFL who joined the Baltimore Colts in 1967, died in 2011 of a weight-loss drug overdose. On Tuesday, researches with the Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston University and Concussion Legacy Foundation confirmed that Smith suffered from CTE, The New York Times reported.

Mirra’s widow, Lauren, told ESPN Magazine she noticed changes in her husband’s mood before his death.

“He wasn’t able to be present in any situation or conversation, so it was hard to be in a relationship with him to any degree,” Lauren told the publication. “He was lost. I looked straight through him on a few occasions. And I was like, ‘Where are you? Where are you? What is wrong?'” 

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