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Scientists say child has been ‘functionally cured’ of HIV infection with early treatment

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek Medical researchers announced today that, for the first time, a child born with HIV appears to have been cured. Doctors are hopeful that the results may be replicated and used to treat infants infected by pregnancy or delivery in the first few days of life.   DESPITE ENDING TREATMENT THE CHILD NOW HAS NO IDENTIFIABLE LEVELS OF HIV   According to the National Institutes of Health, a two-year…

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Watch Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, & Others In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code

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As reported on TechCrunch. by COLLEEN TAYLOR Code.org, the new non-profit aimed at encouraging computer science education launched last month by entrepreneur and investor brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi, has assembled an all-star group of the world’s most well-known and successful folks with programming skills to talk about how learning to code has changed their lives — and how isn’t quite as hard as people might think.As you can see in the five minute clip embedded above, the short film (nine…

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Get Ready To Lose Your Job

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JON EVANS “Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase,” observes Angel of the Year and new Andreessen Horowitz GPChris Dixon, who says that the turning point between those phases for the Age of Information is…now. Meanwhile, “profits have surged as a share of national income, while wages and other labor compensation are down,” notes Paul Krugman. Walter Russell Mead agrees: “The old industrial middle class…has been hollowed out, and no comparable…

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Nexus Tablet Success And Why There’s No Time Like The Present For A Google Retail Store

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Rumors from an “extremely reliable source” speaking to 9t05Google have suggested Google will start to operate its own physical retail stores starting as soon as the 2013 holiday season in the U.S. Brick-and-mortar shops from an Internet search company? Sounds like a stretch, but the Goog is breaking out of its search box big time, and recent additions to the Nexus line are proving it has a real chance at establishing a…

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Insert Coin: HeatMeter wants to save your money and the planet (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Back in 2011, MIT discovered that the Fisker Karma’s batteries only lost 10 percent of their battery life after 1,500 charges. Admittedly, the study didn’t examine theEV’s reliability, nor its tendency to spontaneously combust, but the MIT researchers did learn plenty about energy conservation in the process. Fast-forward to now, and YShape, a start-up spun off from that original research, is taking to Kickstarter to fund HeatMeter, a sensor that’s designed to…

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LibreOffice kicks it up to version 4.0, promises leaner performance and greater interoperability

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As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee It’s been a little over a week since Microsoft unveiled its big Office 2013 suite (along with that Office 365 subscription option) to the world, and right on cue the Document Foundation has released version 4.0 of open source alternative LibreOffice. The latest update promises to be cleaner and leaner according to devs, but more importantly to you and me is that it brings greater interoperability between different file formats such as DocX and…

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DropTag tells phones when packages are bruised before they’re opened (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Many of us have had the misfortune of receiving a package that has been roughhoused in transit, and we might not have even realized it until we burrowed through the cardboard and tape. Cambridge Consultants’ upcoming DropTag might just serve as the insurance we need. The badge can detect a drop or other violent motion, like earlier sensors, but carries Bluetooth 4.0 to transmit data and alerts in real-time to a mobile app,…

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HP tells Chinese factories to stop raiding schools for cheap labor

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr We know that HP’s Chinese sub-contractors enjoy a spot of opera on the production line. What’s always been harder to determine though, is who those workers are and what employment rights they have. In an effort to preempt the sort of headlines that have afflicted other brands, HP has issued new guidelines to its Chinese partners — including Foxconn — designed to limit the use of students and temporary personnel and give those people more control over…

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Microsoft attacks Gmail in revived ‘Scroogled’ campaign

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon So you thought that Microsoft was done lambasting Google with its “Scroogled” ad campaign? Surprise, the company is back with a new “seven figure” offensive, railing against Google’s practice of serving ads based on the body text of your Gmail messages. Under the tagline “Think Google respects your privacy? Think again,”Microsoft explains how its own Outlook.com “prioritizes privacy,” while Google “goes through your personal email” to sell ads. THIS…

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England to mandate dog microchips by 2016

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As reported on Engadget. By Zach Honig Thinking about injecting an identification chip in your pooch? If you live in the southern part of the UK, you won’t have a choice. Come 2016, English authorities will require all of the country’s pups to have embedded microchips, so they can be returned to their owners if ever they run astray. The United Kingdom’s Environment Department says some 60 percent of the country’s 8 million dogs already have the…

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