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Clarius Introduces Wireless Ultrasound Transducer for Your Smartphone
Clarius Mobile Health, a firm based outside of Vancouver, Canada, is unveiling a wireless ultrasound transducer that uses your Android or Apple iPhone as the display and control system. There aren’t many details provided by Clarius about the product, but the company expects these ultrasounds to be used for procedures such as nerve blocks and for helping to deliver needle injections. The device has yet to receive clearance from the world’s regulatory bodies.
Check out the preview video for the Clarius mobile ultrasound:


Scientists have seen the shockwave from a star’s collapsing core for the first time
Astronomers have for the first time seen a shockwave generated by a star’s collapsing core and captured the earliest minutes of two exploding stars.
An international team of scientists found a shockwave only in the smaller supernova, a finding that will help them understand these complex explosions which create many of the elements that make up humans, the Earth and the Solar System.
“It’s like the shockwave from a nuclear bomb, only much bigger, and no one gets hurt,” says Brad Tucker from the Australian National University (ANU).

Can Google Expand Cuba’s Censored Internet? — By David Talbot | MIT Technology Review
“President Obama seems to think Google can help increase Internet access in a country that has not historically been interested in unfettered connectivity.”
Floating city made out of garbage
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This futuristic floating city will be made out of garbage and house 20,000 residents.
