6:33 PM
Google's success with driverless cars has a HUGE implication for society and the economy--in the US, the driverless car is worth over $2 trillion in revenue! It could also save millions from death and injury and eliminate billions of expenses--Google says that they can reduce traffic accidents by 90%, significant considering 9.5 mil vehicles were involved in accidents in 2009, killing 33,808 people and injuring 2.2 mil others, costing the US $450 bil that year:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/robot-cars-would-be-worth-over-2.html
iRobot's stock shot upwards after their medical robot received FDA approval for use in hospitals:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/medical-robot-gets-fda-clearance.html
Researchers developed password-cracking algorithm that takes into account grammar that is FAR better than other state-of-the-art password crackers when passwords had grammatical structures:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/grammar-undercuts-security-long-computer-passwords
Samsung made an amazing amount of money last quarter--Samsung makes much more from Android than Google does:
http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-s-q4-2012-financial-earnings-we-made-lots-money
Unlocking a cellphone will become illegal in the U.S. on Saturday:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2013/01/unlocking-cellphones-becomes-illegal-saturday-us
High school teacher was arrested after hitting a 17-year-old girl that refused to have sex with him. He hit her so hard that she was unconscious, left with bruises on her left eye and cheek:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/01/hialeah_high_teacher_punched_t.php
Voicemails show that the man behind the Manti Teo fake girlfriend made the calls himself and sounds very convincing as a female:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/voicemails-manti-te-o-lennay-kekua-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-202503620--ncaaf.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/robot-cars-would-be-worth-over-2.html
iRobot's stock shot upwards after their medical robot received FDA approval for use in hospitals:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/medical-robot-gets-fda-clearance.html
Researchers developed password-cracking algorithm that takes into account grammar that is FAR better than other state-of-the-art password crackers when passwords had grammatical structures:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/grammar-undercuts-security-long-computer-passwords
Samsung made an amazing amount of money last quarter--Samsung makes much more from Android than Google does:
http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-s-q4-2012-financial-earnings-we-made-lots-money
Unlocking a cellphone will become illegal in the U.S. on Saturday:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2013/01/unlocking-cellphones-becomes-illegal-saturday-us
High school teacher was arrested after hitting a 17-year-old girl that refused to have sex with him. He hit her so hard that she was unconscious, left with bruises on her left eye and cheek:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/01/hialeah_high_teacher_punched_t.php
Voicemails show that the man behind the Manti Teo fake girlfriend made the calls himself and sounds very convincing as a female:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/voicemails-manti-te-o-lennay-kekua-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-202503620--ncaaf.html