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Courtesy of Rhyme Lou Wearing the Vigo on the road could help keep drivers from dozing off, its makers suggest. A new wearable device claims to be able to put an end to untimely sleepiness by measuring alertness and nudging the user awake if necessary. Vigo is a headset which uses an infrared sensor to track blinking patterns and eye ...

Susan Walsh/AP Actor Sean Penn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington May 20 before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing as he advocates for  American Jacob Ostreicher’s Freedom after two years in Bolivian detention. After spending more than two years in prison, a man from Brooklyn who was never charged with any ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have built a beam of darkness that can make objects invisible from a long distance away. This isn’t the plot from some not-so-distant sci-fi movie: It really works. The beam of darkness can create a 3D region of invisibility — or “empty light capsule” as the researchers call it — that can hide ...

ROLO/ROLO/AKM-GSI Khloe Kardashian is reportedly filing for divorce from her husband of four years, Lamar Odom, on Friday. Khloe Kardashian is reportedly going to file for divorce from her husband of four years, Lamar Odom. After a tumultuous 2013 – marked by the revelation of Odom’s substance abuse issues and rumors of marital woes for the couple – Kardashian, 29, ...

Why is a keyboard shaped like a keyboard? Better yet, why are all of the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and some punctuation, arranged in four slightly diagonal rows of keys — and more importantly, why has the layout of the keyboard gone almost unchanged in 100 years? There must be a really good reason, right? Wrong. Typewriter diagram, showing ...

It’s difficult to tell just how upset to be about the latest NSA techno-super power uncovered by Washington Post reporters, because it’s unclear just what exactly is going on. A series of Snowden-leaked slides from an NSA meeting entitled “NSA signal-surveillance success stories” has revealed that the agency is collecting location and browsing data through the cookies and geo-tags openly ...

With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hitting cinemas this Friday, December 13, our attention yet again turns to one of the film’s most exciting and divisive aspects: Peter Jackson’s decision to film the entire thing at 48 frames per second (fps), rather than the industry standard of 24 fps. Just as talkies replaced the silent film, and color has ...

Showing an almost shocking lack of sensitivity for gender stereotyping, Microsoft Research has developed a smart bra that prevents women from emotional and stress eating. Microsoft posits that by reducing emotional and stress eating, the bra wearer’s overall health can be improved. The jury is still out on whether stress eating is actually that big of a deal health-wise, mind ...

nbcmiami.com One person has been found dead and another injured as authorities search for two other Cuban migrants reported missing off Key Biscayne near Miami. One person has died, another was injured and two more are missing after a suspected group of Cuban migrants ran into trouble near Miami while trying to flee the Communist island aboard homemade rafts. A ...

Denis Poroy/AP Eli Manning takes a hit on a throw on another multi-interception day. CHARGERS 37, GIANTS 14 SAN DIEGO – The Chargers scored, cannons blasted and the Giants failed to fire back until it was too late inside Qualcomm Stadium Sunday afternoon. Philip Rivers, once a top draft pick for the Giants before being traded for Eli Manning during ...