7:34 PM
This is the last year for the NCAA Football game on PS3, Xbox, etc., probably due to the lawsuits over using likenesses of players in the game:
http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/07/17/ncaa-will-not-renew-contract-with-ea-sports-making-ncaa-football-2014-the-final-version/
An intelligent knife tells surgeons if the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. In testing, the "iKnife" diagnosed 91 patients with 100% accuracy:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/intelligent-knife-tells-surgeon-which-tissue-cancerous
NASA had to quickly end a spacewalk yesterday after the astronaut discovered *water* leaking into his helmet. Engineers do not know why or how the leak happened, but the astronaut could have died if they hadn't cut his spacewalk short:
http://www.asdnews.com/news-50218/NASA_puzzled_as_astronaut_s_helmet_leak_halts_spacewalk.htm
Leading research universities in the US report that they are millions of times each week by Chinese hackers. The Chinese know that professors receive thousands of patents each year and it looks like they have a determined campaign to go after that IP:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130717-u-s-research-universities-subject-to-sustained-cyberattack-campaign-by-china
The Washington Post has an interesting article that explains why the mayor of San Diego will be forced to resign very soon due to the sexual harassment allegations about multiple women that have arisen:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/07/17/bob-filners-days-as-mayor-of-san-diego-are-numbered-heres-why/?wpisrc=nl_pmpol
T-Mobile criticized AT&T's new handset upgrade program. AT&T seemingly copied T-Mobile's plan by letting customers pay a monthly fee instead of paying upfront for the phone. However, T-Mobile gives a discount on their monthly service charges to customers who are paying for their phone while AT&T is *not* discounting their monthly charges while getting their customers to pay for their smartphones and tablets without a subsidy:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-slams-atts-next-handset-upgrade-program/2013-07-17
The top 3 Russian wireless carriers (serving 80% of Russia's smartphone subscribers) do NOT offer the iPhone after VimpleCom dropped the iPhone and began selling the Samsung Galaxy S4 instead to its customers:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/16/apple-russia-iphone-nyet/
Apple may delay the iPhone 5S because they just changed its design to get a bigger (4.3-inch) screen:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-17/apple-may-delay-introduction-of-iphone-5s-commercial-times-says.html
The pricing for the new Nexus 7 tablets has leaked: $229 for the 16GB version and $269 for the 32 GB version:
http://www.androidcentral.com/nexus-7-sequel-pricing-leaks-16gb-229-32gb-269
The new Nexus 7 tablet is apparently getting to retailers on July 20. Google has a big event on Wednesday of next week, so that will probably be their big announcement of the Nexus 7 and possible Android 4.3:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/17/retailers-are-expecting-shipments-of-the-new-nexus-7-next-week/
UK scientists developed a way to charge cell phone batteries with *pee*:
http://gigaom.com/2013/07/17/has-your-phone-run-out-of-juice-these-researchers-can-recharge-it-with-human-urine/
Microsoft has yet to deal with 3 botched patches that the admit cause problems but have no fix for:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/3-more-botched-windows-patches-kb-2803821-kb-2840628-and-kb-2821895-222807
McDonald's released a "budget journal" to help their employees manage their finances and their budget breakdown shows that McDonald's knows that their employees need to get a second job to afford to live on the $8.25/hour McDonald's pays them. Even with the money from a second job, the only way that McDonald's budget works is with their employees somehow finding independent health insurance for just $20/month and the budget includes $0 for food!
http://gothamist.com/2013/07/16/mcdonalds_helpfully_illustrates_tha.php
Jennifer Lopez is being criticized for getting more than $10 mil for singing to 4 "crooks and dictators" from Russia and a number of former Soviet republics:
http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jennifer-lopez-accused-accepting-10-584679
http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/07/17/ncaa-will-not-renew-contract-with-ea-sports-making-ncaa-football-2014-the-final-version/
An intelligent knife tells surgeons if the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. In testing, the "iKnife" diagnosed 91 patients with 100% accuracy:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/intelligent-knife-tells-surgeon-which-tissue-cancerous
NASA had to quickly end a spacewalk yesterday after the astronaut discovered *water* leaking into his helmet. Engineers do not know why or how the leak happened, but the astronaut could have died if they hadn't cut his spacewalk short:
http://www.asdnews.com/news-50218/NASA_puzzled_as_astronaut_s_helmet_leak_halts_spacewalk.htm
Leading research universities in the US report that they are millions of times each week by Chinese hackers. The Chinese know that professors receive thousands of patents each year and it looks like they have a determined campaign to go after that IP:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130717-u-s-research-universities-subject-to-sustained-cyberattack-campaign-by-china
The Washington Post has an interesting article that explains why the mayor of San Diego will be forced to resign very soon due to the sexual harassment allegations about multiple women that have arisen:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/07/17/bob-filners-days-as-mayor-of-san-diego-are-numbered-heres-why/?wpisrc=nl_pmpol
T-Mobile criticized AT&T's new handset upgrade program. AT&T seemingly copied T-Mobile's plan by letting customers pay a monthly fee instead of paying upfront for the phone. However, T-Mobile gives a discount on their monthly service charges to customers who are paying for their phone while AT&T is *not* discounting their monthly charges while getting their customers to pay for their smartphones and tablets without a subsidy:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-slams-atts-next-handset-upgrade-program/2013-07-17
The top 3 Russian wireless carriers (serving 80% of Russia's smartphone subscribers) do NOT offer the iPhone after VimpleCom dropped the iPhone and began selling the Samsung Galaxy S4 instead to its customers:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/16/apple-russia-iphone-nyet/
Apple may delay the iPhone 5S because they just changed its design to get a bigger (4.3-inch) screen:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-17/apple-may-delay-introduction-of-iphone-5s-commercial-times-says.html
The pricing for the new Nexus 7 tablets has leaked: $229 for the 16GB version and $269 for the 32 GB version:
http://www.androidcentral.com/nexus-7-sequel-pricing-leaks-16gb-229-32gb-269
The new Nexus 7 tablet is apparently getting to retailers on July 20. Google has a big event on Wednesday of next week, so that will probably be their big announcement of the Nexus 7 and possible Android 4.3:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/17/retailers-are-expecting-shipments-of-the-new-nexus-7-next-week/
UK scientists developed a way to charge cell phone batteries with *pee*:
http://gigaom.com/2013/07/17/has-your-phone-run-out-of-juice-these-researchers-can-recharge-it-with-human-urine/
Microsoft has yet to deal with 3 botched patches that the admit cause problems but have no fix for:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/3-more-botched-windows-patches-kb-2803821-kb-2840628-and-kb-2821895-222807
McDonald's released a "budget journal" to help their employees manage their finances and their budget breakdown shows that McDonald's knows that their employees need to get a second job to afford to live on the $8.25/hour McDonald's pays them. Even with the money from a second job, the only way that McDonald's budget works is with their employees somehow finding independent health insurance for just $20/month and the budget includes $0 for food!
http://gothamist.com/2013/07/16/mcdonalds_helpfully_illustrates_tha.php
Jennifer Lopez is being criticized for getting more than $10 mil for singing to 4 "crooks and dictators" from Russia and a number of former Soviet republics:
http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jennifer-lopez-accused-accepting-10-584679