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‘Father of cell phone’ talks mobile addiction, hope for the future
Fuel cell implant uses blood sugar to manage type 1 diabetes
Researchers at ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, or Swiss Federal Technical Institute) recently unveiled a fuel cell that uses excess glucose (blood sugar) when implanted in the body to generate electricity. It can potentially power other medical implants, including one that automatically manages type 1 diabetes.
Career criminal, 44, who discovered body of James Bulger on railway line when he was just 14 dies in jail cell
A CAREER criminal who discovered the body of James Bulger on a railway line when he was just 14 has died in a jail cell.
James Riley, 44, “went off the rails” after the horror find three decades ago, his loved ones say.
James Riley found the body of a murdered tot when he was 14, which was said to have tragically changed the path of his life[/caption]
Riley and his brother found two-year-old James Bulger’s body on railway tracks in 1993[/caption]
He was said to have spiralled into a life of crime after discovering the body of the murdered tot in 1993.
And last week Riley, who was nicknamed Osty, was found dead on his police cell floor, MailOnline reported.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed it was investigating his death.
As youngsters Riley, his brother Terence and their pals found the body of two-year-old James on train tracks in Liverpool, Merseyside.
The boy had been murdered by then-10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, in a brutal killing that shocked the nation.
In the years that followed Riley turned to drugs, leading to a life of crime.
His family said he struggled with addiction, and racked up more than 40 convictions, after the grim discovery.
Riley’s lawyer Brendan Carville, defending, once told a court: “The horror of what he found on that occasion with his brother and two friends is something he has lived with ever since.
“Rather than taking advantage of counselling and the like he turned to alcohol and drugs.”
In 2003, a decade after the death of James, Riley’s grandmother spoke about the brothers’ find.
She said: “Neither has spoken of it. They bottled it up. We tried to get the boys to talk about it, but they used to become hysterical, screaming they didn’t want to think about it.
“After that day James went off the rails and Terence’s personality changed totally. We hardly see him these days, but we know it was finding James’ body that changed him.
“Every night I pray for little James, but I also pray for my grandsons.”
In 2010, Riley appeared at Liverpool Crown Court for theft – and blamed the grim find of the toddler’s body for how his life had panned out.
Rather than taking advantage of counselling and the like he turned to alcohol and drugs.
Brendan Carville
Yesterday the police watchdog revealed the 44-year-old had been locked up in a cell after being approached by officers at 10pm on March 14.
It said that at 5pm the following day he was found fighting for his life on the floor of his cell.
Paramedics were raced to the station and rushed Riley to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The IOPC sent investigators to the cells to check over CCTV and clips from body-worn cameras.
Catherine Bates, the IOPC Regional Director, said: “This was a tragic incident in which a man has sadly died and our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
“Merseyside Police referred this matter to us, and as he was in the custody of police at the time he became unwell, it is important there is a thorough and independent investigation.
“We will examine all relevant matters including the interaction officers had with the man on the street, and what happened after he arrived at the custody suite.
“We have made contact with his family to explain our role and will update them as our enquiries progress.”
Apple Watch Could Help Treat Sickle Cell Disease Symptoms, Study Suggests
According to a study conducted by researchers at Duke University’s Day Hospital (via MyHealthyApple), the Apple Watch could help treat vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs), a key complication caused by sickle cell disease that often hospitalizes patients due to severe pain. The research indicates that machine learning using the Apple Watch’s collected health data can discover trends to predict pain among people with sickle cell disease, which could provide an early warning signal and enable treatment via painkillers and saline hydration before it becomes more severe.
Researchers enrolled patients with sickle cell disease to Day Hospital for a VOC between July 2021 and September 2021 into the study, providing them with an Apple Watch Series 3 for the duration of their visit. 15,683 data points from the Apple Watch’s heart rate, heart rate variability, and activity data were cross-referenced with pain scores and vital signs from the hospital’s electronic medical record to create a machine learning model to predict VOCs.
In another newly published study submitted by Colin Lea, a research scientist at Apple who works on machine learning and accessibility related features, it is proposed that changes to Apple’s speech recognition algorithm and machine learning could help alleviate problems for people with a stutter, significantly reducing cut-off utterances and word error rates by almost 80 percent.
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Universal Hydrogen takes to the air with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to fly
As a Universal Hydrogen-branded plane, equipped with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to power an aircraft, made its maiden test flight in eastern Washington, co-founder and CEO Paul Eremenko declared the moment the dawn of a “new golden age of aviation.” The 15-minute test flight of a modified Dash-8 aircraft was short, but it […]
Universal Hydrogen takes to the air with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to fly by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
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How Big Tech Rewrote America’s First Cell Phone Repair Law
“That New York passed any electronics right-to-repair bill is ‘huge,’ Repair.org executive director Gay Gordon-Byrne told Grist. But ‘it could have been huger’ if not for tech industry interference.”
The passage of the Digital Fair Repair Act last June reportedly caught the tech industry off guard, but it had time to act before Governor Kathy Hochul would sign it into law. Corporate lobbyists went to work, pressing for exemptions and changes that would water the bill down. They were largely successful: While the bill Hochul signed in late December remains a victory for the right-to-repair movement, the more corporate-friendly text gives consumers and independent repair shops less access to parts and tools than the original proposal called for. (The state Senate still has to vote to adopt the revised bill, but it’s widely expected to do so.)
The new version of the law applies only to devices built after mid-2023, so it won’t help people to fix stuff they currently own. It also exempts electronics used exclusively by businesses or the government. All those devices are likely to become electronic waste faster than they would have had Hochul, a Democrat, signed a tougher bill. And more greenhouse gases will be emitted manufacturing new devices to replace broken electronics….
Jessa Jones, who founded iPad Rehab, an independent repair shop in Honeoye Falls, about 20 miles south of Rochester, New York, says the original bill included provisions that would have made it far easier for independent shops like hers to get the tools, parts, and know-how needed to make repairs. She pointed to changes that allow manufacturers to release repair tools that only work with spare parts they make, while at the same time controlling how those spare parts are used… “If you keep going down this road, allowing manufacturers to force us to use their branded parts and service, where they’re allowed to tie the function of the device to their branded parts and service, that’s not repair,” Jones said. “That’s authoritarian control.”
The bill’s sponsor believes it could create momentum for dozens of other states trying to pass similar laws, the article points out, possibly leading ultimately to one national agreement between electronics manufacturers and the repair community. A lawmaker from another state argued that New York’s law “gives us something to work from. We’re going to take that now and try to do a better piece of legislation.”
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K for submitting the article.
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A company is trying to map America’s cell networks using mail trucks
Cell network coverage maps have always been dubiously accurate in the US, and even the ones released by the FCC in 2021 come with a ton of asterisks. A company called Ranlytics is hoping to make a much more accurate picture by attaching equipment to some of the mail trucks that are already driving to many locations in the US to deliver parcels and letters (via Light Reading). The data it collects will provide info on coverage quality “in a given town, on a given road, even at a given address”says the company’s CEO Keith Sheridan in an interview with The Verge.
In a press release earlier this week, Ranlytics says it’s working with the US Postal Service to measure AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon’s 4G and 5G networks in Seattle and that it’s…