Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

According to NiceKicks.com, which has additional pictures and video of the shoe, the shoes themselves will be sold on Nikemag.ebay.com, with proceeds going directly to the Michael J. Fox foundation, the foundation set up by the actor who played Marty McFly in the original Future trilogy. Word of the Nike Air Mag surfaced earlier today. One interesting aspect: so far, no one has yet to confirm that the high-top shoes (which actually look more like snow boots than anything else) actually self-tie or self-secure, as the original shoes featured in the movie do.



Nike representatives did not return calls asking for comment, even though PC Magazine was one of the few technology publications around when Back to the Future Part II debuted in 1989. "The original NIKE MAG was worn by the Back to the Future character Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, in the year 2015," Nike's Web site says. The 2011 NIKE MAG shoe was designed to be a precise replica of the original from Back to the Future II.

However, the shoe appears to be designed as close as possible to the original footwear, even going so far as to include the glowing LED "Nike" logo and lights in the heel of the shoe. "We wanted to translate the excitement people have for the 'greatest shoe never made' and for the Back to the Future into positive action," said Mark Parker, CEO of Nike, as quoted by NiceKicks. As any child of the 80's remembers, the "Nike Air Mag" was a futuristic prop that was sold in 2015, part of the setting for Back to the Future Part II. The second part of the trilogy, which also starred Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown, involved visiting the future to save the future children of McFly and his future wife, Jennifer.

Leave bare skin when outside can lead to sun damage and increased risk of skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. A 58 will be diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer during their lifetime.




Melanoma is the most common cancer in young adults 25 to 29 years and the second most common for teenagers and young adults 15 years to 29, depending on the facts provided by dermatologist Dr. Sarah Cash, the Dermatology Group of the Carolinas . Like all other cancers, early detection is the best tool in the fight against skin cancer. Caucasians with fair skin are most at risk of developing any form of skin cancer, including melanoma.

Cash recommends skin cancer examination begins about 20 years. One in five people in the United States to develop some form of skin cancer during their lifetime. "The best way to find skin cancer as its first, most treatable stage is to examine your skin regularly and with a dermatologist to perform full-body skin cancer," Cash says. Previous studies show that tanning beds increase the risk of skin cancer by 75 percent.

Google will hold its annual developer conference, Google IO, Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco, California this week and is expected to discuss the status of the two operating systems, Android and Chrome OS, and the state of its partnerships with companies that create Chrome hardware OS. Android, Google's operating system open-source software for mobile devices, is already on track overall. The challenge for Google's operating system, OS Chrome is out of the shadow of Android. It was probably no more than 90,000 users around the world today, if you count the 60,000 developers who have received no chrome hardware, 24,400 employees of Google, and thousands of people sufficiently committed to the project to install their own versions of Chrome OS The open source project from which springs Chrome OS. Chrome OS is not intended as a substitute for general purpose computers running Linux, Mac OS or Windows, the main desktop operating systems.



Google Eric Schmidt when he was chief executive, said that Android is an operating system for mobile devices based on touch, while Chrome is an OS operating system for devices with keyboards. Chrome browser in the OS is fast because it is when you are running on a computer with a desktop operating system. That's because Chrome OS does not allow users to deploy software-intensive resources that can slow the operating system.

But Chrome OS does not support Chrome browser extensions, and a dedicated user can probably find a way to install extensions sufficient to impair performance. Chrome OS is now more reliable desktop operating systems. If Chrome OS becomes popular enough, it is almost certain that Chrome OS malware will be developed and there are lots of Chrome browser bugs that could potentially be exploited. The advantage of the most pressing security Chrome Chrome OS is that OS devices can be implemented so as not to store valuable data.

A British woman's breast implant reportedly exploded after she was hit in the chest by a paintball, which can travel at 190 mph. "We respectfully ask that any ladies with surgical breast implants notify our team at the time of booking," according to a statement on its website. Just wait, it gets better: "You will also be issued with extra padding to protect your implants while paintballing," the statement says.



This, of course, happened within days of an FDA official reaffirming that silicone breast implants on the market were safe to use. But then again, when they talk about the dangers of breast augmentation, paintball is not usually one that comes to mind. But perhaps this particular incident should be filed under "dangers of implants" rather than the "dangers of paintball."

After all, it would not be the first time that high-impact events have caused breast implants to explode. Lest we forget, last year a British health agency ordered cosmetic surgeons to stop selling a bestselling silicone implant because it was twice as likely to rupture as other types. Ruptured breast implants are no joke. If you absolutely have to get breast implants, avoid any potentially high-impact activities.

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