May 10, 2014
Mohenjo
Crime
"I'm going to come and kill you next", amazon, American, American passenger, Bajc, Beijing, business, Business News, China, death threat, Flight MH370, Hotels, human-rights, IBM Malaysia employee, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines, medicine, mental-health, missing Flight MH370, nbc news, passenger Philip Wood, Philip Wood, phone calls, research, Sarah Bajc, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, Texas, travel, vacation
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The girlfriend of an American passenger aboard missing Flight MH370 told NBC News she has been the victim of two break-ins, a death threat and numerous unsettling phone calls since the jet vanished.
Sarah Bajc received an instant message warning that “I’m going to come and kill you next” about two weeks after the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared on March 8. Several pornographic images and creepy phone calls were also received from the same China-based number.
Bajc was preparing to move from Beijing to live with passenger Philip Wood, a 50-year-old Texas native and IBM Malaysia employee, in Kuala Lumpur at the time of the tragedy.
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April 4, 2014
Mohenjo
Technical
amazon, business, Business News, Caren Alpert, everyday ingredients, food, food photographer, Hotels, human-rights, intricacies of everyday ingredients, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, nerd, Photographer, research, Science, science nerd, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Self-professed “science nerd” and food photographer Caren Alpert wanted to capture the intricacies of everyday ingredients in her project.
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March 30, 2014
Mohenjo
Crime
amazon, business, Business News, females marry at 16, Hotels, human-rights, intense debate, jail sentence of two years, lawmaker Marvi Memon, males marry at 18, marrying children, Marvi Memon, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, Pakistan, proposed law, research, Science, Science News, SLAMABAD, technology, Technology News, teen girls, travel, underage wedlock, vacation, younger teen girls married
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A proposed law seeking tough new penalties for marrying children has triggered intense debate in Pakistan.
At the moment, females can legally tie the knot at 16 while males must wait until they are 18. However, it is customary for younger teen girls to be married by their families in some parts of the country. Girls are also sometimes offered as compensation to end feuds between families.
Anyone involved in underage wedlock currently faces a $10 fine, possibly accompanied by up to a month in jail. But lawmaker Marvi Memon is fighting for this to be increased to $1,000 – which is about a month’s wage for a recent graduate working at a bank — and a possible jail sentence of two years.
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February 16, 2014
Mohenjo
Science
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Science isn’t just for the laboratory and the classroom: It’s also for big-screen theaters and video games, as demonstrated by the winners of this year’s International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
“The winners made scientific data beautiful and brought their new ideas to life, while at the same time immersing the viewer in science,” Monica Bradford, executive editor of the journal Science, said in Thursday’s announcement of the awards.
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Winners for “Invisible Coral Flows”: Vicente I. Fernandez, Orr H. Shapiro, Melissa S. Garren, Assaf Vardi, and Roman Stocker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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February 12, 2014
Mohenjo
Medical
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Researchers looking for simple ways to treat autism say they may have explained why at least some cases occur: It all has to do with the stress babies undergo at birth.
They’re already testing a simple drug for treating kids with autism and say their findings may point to ways to treat the disorder earlier in life.
It’s all experimental, but the study, published in the journal Science, should inspire other researchers to take a closer look. “This is exciting stuff to people in the field, because it’s getting at a basic mechanism,” says Andrew Zimmerman of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, who reviewed the study.
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February 8, 2014
Mohenjo
Technical
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A distinctive-looking bot on wheels with sensors and cameras could one day play the role of beat cop — but first, it will help find you a parking spot.
The robot’s unique design was a deliberate attempt to make an “incredibly friendly” robot, Stacy Stephens marketing chief at Knightscope, which builds the bots, told NBC News.
Anticipating people’s unease at encountering an all-seeing watcher bot, cute factor was key. “We wanted to be more like R2D2 and much less like Terminator or Robocop,” Stephens, who was a beat cop in Dallas for three years, said.
The result is a 5-foot tall, 300 lb. robot named K5, which ran through some autonomous abilities at a demo last week.
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February 8, 2014
Mohenjo
Technical
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One day, kids who stream music might talk about digital downloads the same way that we talk about eight-track tapes, cassettes, and perhaps soon enough even CDs. But they could still be collecting records.
If you haven’t heard, vinyl is hot. LP sales shot up 32 percent from 2012 to 2013, even as overall sales of albums dropped. It was the format’s seventh straight year of growth. Digital album sales, meanwhile, dropped in 2013, the first time that has happened since Billboard started stracking them in 2001. CD sales declined last year by 14.5 percent, according to Nielsen SoundScan, although they still make up the vast majority of album sales.
When it comes to recent growth, only one format comes to close to vinyl: streaming, which increased in volume by 24 percent in 2013, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
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January 11, 2014
Mohenjo
Technical
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Mobile typists usually have to settle for touch keyboards or small plastic add-ons, but the folks behind TrewGrip are looking to change that. The TrewGrip literally flips the lid on traditional keyboard design by placing all of the letter keys on the rear, allowing users to type on a mobile device, PC, or smart device while maintaining a comfortable grip. We spent a few minutes re-learning how to type on this wireless Bluetooth device, and saw some serious potential.
The TrewGrip has a distinct U-shaped design with soft-grips on either end and a micro-suction panel in the middle that help keep your smartphone or tablet in place. The back of the device hosts its full QWERTY keyboard, which is split among the left and right side based on which keys are typically accessed with either hand.
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November 26, 2013
Mohenjo
Technical
"Word of the Year 2013", aaa, AAA analyst, amazon, American Automobile Association, business, Business News, cellphone cameras, Dictionaries, Health, Hotels, human-rights, internet, medicine, mental-health, narcissistic love child of cellphone, nbc news, Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University, research, Science, Science News, Selfies, Sharon Gilmartin, social-media, technology, Technology News, travel, University of Oxford, University of Oxford in the UK, vacation
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Frequency of the word “selfie” in the English language has increased by 17,000 percent in the past year, according to Oxford Dictionaries, which crowned the narcissistic love child of cellphone cameras and social media “Word of the Year 2013” on Monday. But it’s the rising frequency of selfies snapped from the wheel that concerns another venerable organization, AAA, the group formerly known as the American Automobile Association.
“Selfies are a relatively new phenomenon so we don’t have [traffic accident] data specifically related to selfies, but we do know any use of cellphones increases crash risk,” Sharon Gilmartin, a AAA analyst for traffic safety policy, told NBC News.
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August 25, 2013
Mohenjo
Technical
Air Force, air force pilot, amazon, aviation, brookings institution, business, Business News, C-130, cars, Colonel Brad Hoagland, drone pilots, Drones, Hotels, Innovation, Military, nbc, nbc news, recruitment issues, research, robots, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, transportation, travel, vacation
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The Air Force is looking for a few good drone pilots, but not enough are lining up to fill those spots, claims a new report from an Air Force pilot who researches recruitment issues. One reason is trouble with the selection and training problems. But the other reason: Young pilots who join the military see the drone track as a dead-end career.
Colonel Brad Hoagland, who’s spent 23 years in the Air Force, took year-long break to study the system from the outside as part of a fellowship at the Brookings Institution. Hoagland went back to flying C-130s this summer, but in a newly released report — the result of his year-long study — he explains a few reasons why top brass in the Air Force need to give their Remotely Piloted Aircraft program a closer look.
The Air Force’s drone program has been growing quickly — it’s staffed by a little over 1,300 pilots as of this year, and is due to take in about 350 new pilots by 2017. “We’ve been building the platform faster than we can fill them with operators,” Hoagland previously told NBC News.
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