Enlarge / Various homeopathic remedies. (credit: Wikidudeman ) More than 60 percent of NIH-supported comprehensive cancer centers in the US include “integrative medicine” in their services and patient information. And in recent years, the centers’ inclusion of dubious treatments has only grown, according to a new article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute […]
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Hulu lawsuit centers on lack of audio options for blind users
While captions help deaf and limited hearing viewers enjoy video content, a separate audio track describing actions helps blind watchers understand what’s going on. But not all content platforms have the latter feature. A group of blind and visually-impaired clients has sued Hulu for failing to both provide audio-description support for any streaming video in […]
Daimler and HPE want to power green data centers with hydrogen
Hydrogen fuel cells have mainly been used to power vehicles so far, but they could soon find another use: the server farms powering your internet services. Daimler, HPE, Power Innovations and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are expanding fuel cell use to “micro-grids” inside data centers. Solar and wind power would provide the bulk of […]
Samsung tests Genius Bar-like ‘care centers’ in co-working spaces
If you’ve ever spent too much time waiting at an Apple Genius Bar to get your gadget fixed, you know that it can be a pretty boring, sterile moment. There just isn’t much to do there, besides checking out Apple Watch bands on your wrist, or trying to find out which set of Beats sound […]
Asylum-seekers held in Australian-run detention centers are in limbo ahead of a major deadline
REUTERS/Jason Reed SYDNEY (Reuters) – Approximately two hundred men held in a remote Australian-run detention center will be moved to a new facility within weeks, the country’s immigration minister said. Peter Dutton, Australia’s immigration minister, said those men who have their refugee applications denied, ruling them ineligible for resettlement to the United States, and who […]
Tesla is bringing its supercharging network to city centers
The burgeoning electric car market has a way to go before it’s on a par with traditional petrol and diesel vehicles in the U.S., but sales are looking promising, with Tesla helping to drive fully-electric model sales up 47 percent so far in 2017. One obstacle to electric cars’ growth is the availability of charging infrastructure […]
Tropical Storm Harvey takes out 911 centers, cell towers, and cable networks
Enlarge / Flooding in Houston’s theater district on Sunday, August 27, 2017 as the city battles with tropical storm Harvey and resulting floods. (credit: Getty Images | AFP | Thomas B. Shea) Tropical Storm Harvey has disrupted at least 17 emergency call centers and 320 cellular sites, and it has caused outages for more than 148,000 Internet, […]
Bomb threats to Jewish centers & schools were really a dark web moneymaking scheme ‒ FBI
Federal authorities believe the American-Israeli teen charged with making more than 100 bomb threats to Jewish community centers (JCCs) in the US was selling his services on the dark web for as little as $ 30 a job. Michael Ron David Kadar, 19, was arrested in March and later charged in Israel with 28 counts […]
Vitamins, supplements effective at boosting call volume to poison centers
Enlarge (credit: Getty | John Greim) Regardless the type of dietary supplements—from vitamins, energy drinks, herbal medicines, homeopathic products, to some hormonal treatments—they usually come with big claims about boosting health and wellbeing. While those claims are questionable (and often unfounded), the products collectively do enhance one thing: the volume of calls to poison control […]
Tesla is building more service centers alongside Model 3 launch
Tesla just completed its first batch of Model 3s and 30 cars are scheduled to be in their owners’ hands on the 28th. But with an estimated 400,000 orders waiting to be filled, Tesla’s production ramp up is going to put many more Model 3s on the road in the very near future. In preparation […]
