UCSF Medical Center Using Robots to Help Conduct Hospital Activities
A brand new Medical Center at Mission Bay will open February 1st with the help of 25 autonomous robots. The pre-programmed robots will essentially take over mundane duties like moving supplies and stock and assisting with kitchen and pharmacy duties.
"You can't afford to wait for someone to show up. The robot that never gets distracted, never stops for coffee, could be great for these critical deliveries."
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Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature?
Even in virtual cities, the populace is facing a growing problem of how to address the homeless population. It's starting to look like SimCity is taking on a life of its own or could it all be nothing more than a glitch in the SimCity programming?
"That is, can we fix homelessness in SimCity, or because we haven't fixed homelessness as a problem in real life, therefore we are bound to lose?" Bittanti asked. "Is SimCity a reflection of what's happening in reality, and therefore is very realistic, or is it a programming issue?"
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Thieves Tunnel into Beijing Warehouse, Steal iPhones
Those Chinese and their fascination with the iPhone 6 is getting out of hand these days. We ran a story earlier where a Chinese man was busted when he was caught smuggling 94 iPhones into the country and now three men were arrested after tunneling into a warehouse and making off with 240 iPhones with an estimated value of $240K.
The men who tunneled into the warehouse ended up selling the phones and spending the money on "cars, gold, and gambling."
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NY Governor Wants Statewide 100Mbps Internet by 2019
New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced at a press conference that all of New York State should have access to 100Mbps high speed Internet by 2019. The New New York Broadband Program will cost an approximated $1 Billion dollars, the financing will come from an already allotted $500 Million from the state and a matching $500 Million from private companies.
The program is part of Cuomo's 2015 State of Opportunity Agenda and although those matching funds call for providers to offer at 100 Mbps speeds in most cases, it does allow for as low as 25Mbps in extremely remote areas of the state.
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Lost Beagle 2 Mars Lander Found After 11 Years
Uh, excuse me European Space Agency, but we happened to find this lander on Mars and was wondering if by chance that you had lost one. NASA just happened to be in the neighborhood and spotted something that looked like it didn't belong there. Maybe if you can describe it……..
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What NamesCon Auction Tells Us About the Domain Market
Who in their right mind would pay $350K for the homecare.com name? The answer is anyone in that auction that feels their company could benefit from the privilege of owning it, that's who. There were several big dollar auctions at Namescon, the domain name conference held in Las Vegas.
Dot-coms accounted for 35 percent of all the 134 domains on sale in Vegas, and nine of the ten top sales were dot-coms. So there is no doubt that dot-com remains the queen of the domain name world
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New "Skeleton Key" Malware Allows Bypassing of Passwords
Dell's security group has discovered new malware which they named Skeleton Key that installs itself in the Active Directory and from there can logon as any user. The bad news is it's almost undetectable at this point, but the good news is it's extremely easy to remove the malware from your computer once it is detected.
It's not all doom and gloom though. The good news is that, in its current form, the malware does not survive a system reboot.
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Fox News and Dish Shake Hands, Service Restored to Subscribers
All of you Bill O'Reilly fans can stop shaking from withdrawal, Fox is back on Dish Network. Fox and Dish finally came to a mutual financial agreement after three weeks of Fox blackout on Dish.
A thank you is great, but let's be straight – it doesn't bring back the 21 days of lost coverage that Dish customers have arguably been paying for the whole time.
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World of Warcraft May Be Adding Free-To-Play for 'Veterans'
Blizzard is looking for possible ways to entice seasoned World of Warcraft players back into the fold. These so-called Veteran players would be eligible to be a part of a new type of account called the Veteran Edition, sharing many of the traits and restrictions of the 'Starter Edition', both of which are free-to-play up to a certain preset level.
The patch notes for 6.1, the latest iteration of the game, include a new account type called "Veteran Edition" that has similar restrictions to "Starter Edition" accounts -- that is, the free trial account that lets you play the game for free, up to a point.
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Meet the New Firefox 35
Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox browser this week, showing off the new improvements that might just convince a new users to make the jump back to Firefox. Check out the Firefox Marketplace and Hello Video Chat.
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Oculus Rift Could Make Music Software Way Easier to Use
Oculus Rift: Not just for trying to simulate the Holodeck any longer. Bryon Mallett is a design student who turned his attention to mashing up the Oculus Rift with a customized pair of VR gloves using the magnetic tracking sensors from Razer's Hydra controller to make some beautiful music together.
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NSA Brags About Turning the Tables on Cyberwarfare Hackers
Der Spiegel is back publishing more of Edward Snowden's leaks with a spin on the NSA as being one of the good guys. The leaked article shows the NSA doing what the Agency was initially designed for; protecting America from its real enemies and not spying on its own citizens for a change.
When China hacked the Department of Defense in 2009, the NSA not only pinpointed the source of attack, but broke into China's intelligence network and monitored the country's spying efforts. This "fourth party collection," as the NSA calls it, lets the agency find out what's happening without doing all the hard work.
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Sony to Shut Down All of Its Stores in Canada
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news if you are an employee of a Sony Store in Canada, start making plans to hit the unemployment line in about a month and a half. The Sony Outlet Store will be closing all across Canada in the very near future according to CBC News.
The statement said Sony would support authorized Sony retailers, enabling them to continue selling its products and providing support for customers. Sony said it will reach out to previous Sony store customers in order to provide details about warranties and technical support in the future.
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