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Could a Smartphone Save Your Life?

Posted on 06/17/2013 by | Health | Comments

Bulletin Today | health care | TechnologyBy Elizabeth Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio, Kaiser Health News It’s one of those unhappy holiday surprises — a visiting family member gets sick. That happened to Dr. Farzad Mostashari last Thanksgiving. “My dad comes downstairs and he has acute pain in his eye where he had cataract surgery. And I said, ‘What’s the matter, what’s the story?’” recalled Mostashari, who lives in Bethesda, Md. “And he said, ‘Well, I think they put the wrong lens in my eye, I’d gone …

What’s Congress Up To? How You Can Find Out

Posted on 06/13/2013 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | Politics | TechnologyAmericans rate Congress below most scourges, polls regularly show. But does the public actually know what Congress is doing? Only a small percentage of legislation makes it to the Senate and House floors, where insomniacs can stay glued to the proceedings on C-SPAN. But these days, it’s a lot easier than it used to be to track bills of interest through the legislative process. The granddaddy of legislative access is named, fittingly, after the guy who created the Library of …

Own a Smartphone? You’re Now in the New Majority

Posted on 06/5/2013 by | News, Culture, Sights and Sounds | Comments

Bulletin Today | TechnologyI read the new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (Smartphone Ownership 2013) on my iPhone, walking down the street and trying not to get run over or crash into anything. At least I wasn’t driving … The news? A majority (56 percent) of Americans now own a smartphone, according to Pew. You may think it’s been that way forever, but Pew says we’ve just passed a tipping point. This is the first time that a …

VA—Easy Target for Foreign Hackers?

Posted on 06/5/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Politics | TechnologyBy Kevin Freking of The Associated Press At least eight foreign-sponsored organizations have hacked into computer networks at the Veterans Affairs Department in recent years or were actively trying to do so, a former VA computer security chief told Congress on Tuesday. Jerry Davis, who served as the VA’s chief information security officer until February 2013, said in written testimony to a House subcommittee that the VA became aware of the computer hacking in March 2010 and that attacks continue …

Could That ‘Star Trek’ Gadget Soon Be Diagnosing You?

Posted on 05/30/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | TechnologyIf you’re a fan of the original Star Trek TV series and its myriad spin-offs, you may remember the medical tricorder — a futuristic gadget with special handheld sensors that the Enterprise’s intrepid crew used to check the vital signs of an injured or sick person. Pretty amazing, huh? Wouldn’t it be cool to actually have a gizmo like that to monitor your vital signs? Well, there’s a good chance that a real-life version of the Star Trek device will be available …

Could That Be a $671,400 Relic in Your Garage?

Posted on 05/29/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | TechnologyIf you were one of the 200 or so people who bought an Apple-1 computer back in 1976 or 1977 and still have it on a shelf in the back of your garage, guess what? You’re in the chips. And we don’t mean microprocessor chips, either. The technology news website ZDNet reports that a surviving Apple-1, the computer giant’s first product, fetched a breathtaking $671,400 at a German auction. Other Apple-1s have fetched six-figure prices in the past, but this …

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