News tagged with legal blindness

The 'see food' diet

Current research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids may help prevent one of the leading causes of legal blindness among the elderly. The related report by Tuo et al, "A high omega-3 fatty acid diet reduces retinal ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC

(AP) -- A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest takeover of an American company to date.

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UC students design a better pill bottle for the blind and visually impaired

It’s easy to see that University of Cincinnati design students Alex Broerman and Ashley Ma are on to something with their new design and prototype for a prescription-medicine pill bottle that better serves ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Murdoch scandal follows classic media baron script

(AP) -- If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international ...

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Asimov's robots live on twenty years after his death

Renowned author Isaac Asimov died 20 years ago today. Although he wrote more than 500 books, the robot stories he began writing at age 19 are possibly his greatest accomplishment. They have become the starting ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google gives glimpse of Internet glasses

Google on Wednesday gave the world a glimpse of its vision for letting people look at life through Internet-tinted glasses.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 34

Google's self-driving car takes blind man on errands

A self-driving car being developed by Google Inc. took a blind man for a ride this week, driving him to a Taco Bell and then to a dry cleaner in San Jose, Calif.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 21

Fresh scandal embroils US climate science debate

A fresh scandal over climate change has erupted in the United States after leaked documents appeared to show a right-wing funded campaign to influence how climate science is taught in schools.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 64

Building a 'blind-friendly' Internet

Rakesh Babu demonstrates how a blind person uses the Internet.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NZ police raid file-sharing site founder's mansion

New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of Megaupload.com, a giant file-sharing site shut down by U.S. authorities, on Friday and seized guns, millions of dollars, and ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Feds shut down Megaupload.com file-sharing website (Update)

One of the world's largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 49


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