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KIEL, Germany (Reuters) — Four German Computer Science students fulfilled every gamer’s dream this week by playing their favorite games at large scale on the facade of their university’s main building. The young scientists transformed the front of the Christian Albrechts University’s 14-floor main building into a big light show and were able to play Tetris, Breakout, Snake and Pong. The project, called Project Lighthouse, included 57,000 LED lights placed on the 392 windows of […]
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — The Santa Barbara Zoo welcomed a baby Masai giraffe last week, following a nearly 15-month pregnancy of its mother Audrey. The unnamed male calf was born on March 26, weighing in at 191 pounds (87 kilograms) and standing 6’6″ tall (198 centimeters). The zoo said both the calf and mama are doing well. There are an estimated 37,000 Masai giraffes in Kenya and Tanzania, the zoo reported, and […]
BRISTOL, ENGLAND, UK – Seven-week-old Afia, the first gorilla born by Caesarian section in the U.K. was taken by one of her surrogate zoo keeper mothers into the gorilla enclosure for the first time on Wednesday (March 30). It was a tiring moment for the tiny creature, who fell asleep in her keeper’s arms. The western lowland gorilla was born in an emergency C-section operation last month, which is both very rare and risky in […]
HONG KONG, China – A 5.03-carat green diamond, believed to be the largest ever to appear on the market, was the highlight of Christie’s Hong Kong 30th anniversary celebrations on Thursday (March 31). Called the ‘Aurora Green’ the natural fancy vivid green diamond is expected to fetch between USD 16-20 million when it goes on the block in Kong Kong on May 31. Christie’s Asia Pacific Chairman, Francois Curiel said green diamonds were the rarest […]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Japanese company Square Enix decided to hold the unveiling of details surrounding their much anticipated console game ‘Final Fantasy XV’ at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Wednesday (March 30). While fans – some of which dressed in cos play for the event – arrived in their thousands to the free ticketed event called ‘Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV’, many were unaware that the game’s director Hajime Tabata […]
First, it was the U.S. government asking Apple for help in accessing an iPhone. Now, it could be Apple urging the government to show its hand – in a similar legal case in Brooklyn, New York. A source says Apple could use legal discovery to force the FBI to show how it accessed the phone of the shooter in San Bernardino if Justice officials continue to compel Apple to help unlock an iPhone in a […]
Apple is not alone in getting government requests to unlock phones. The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, says, Google has also been asked to help the government access locked devices in investigations. “All of these orders that we found involved unlocking the devices through capabilities that Google possessed, but, as far as we can tell, Google complied with them. There is nothing in the publicly available information to suggest anything different”, ACLU Staff, Attorney […]
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, United States – Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medicine announced on Wednesday (March 30) the first ever liver transplant from an HIV positive donor to an HIV positive recipient, as well as the first kidney transplant in the United States from an HIV positive donor to an HIV positive recipient. Transplant surgeon Dr. Dorry Segev said he had already been performing successful organ transplants for HIV positive patients using organs from HIV negative donors […]
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella kicked of the company’s BUILD developer conference on Wednesday (March 30) with a keynote address in which he said computers and people together would ultimately move society forward. “Ultimately, it’s not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines. Each of us excels at very different things. The fact that we have creativity, empathy, emotion and judgment that can then be […]
TOKYO,Japan – If you need to change money while passing through Tokyo’s Narita airport — all you have to do is ask the robot. NAO is a friendly bank clerk that can tell you the rate of exchange for any currency in either English, Japanese, or Chinese. Built by Paris based-Aldebaran Robotics, the sleek red and white machine stands about the height of a bedside table. Gestures, eye movements and mannerisms have all been programmed […]
PARIS,France – A few lucky contest winners will be granted the chance to spend a night amongst sharks through an event organised by the Aquarium of Paris and holiday rental website Airbnb, creating a research platform in the process. Contestants must enter the competition through the rental sharing website and write a bit about themselves including why they should be the ones to win by midnight on April 3. Following the selection, different sets of winners […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News online correspondent (Eagle News) — The room was uncomfortably hotter. Maybe because I was only 10 feet away from former US Vice President and global climate action advocate Al Gore or it could be his ‘Nostradamic’ predictions on what happens next with the planet and in the Philippines: At the Climate Reality Leadership Corps held recently by Al Gore’s team at Hotel Sofitel, he emphasized that the global warming pollution is […]
