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Slashdot Science Story | UK Docs Perform First Remote-Control Heart Surgery.

“Doctors at a British hospital have just carried out theworld’s first surgery using a remote-controlled robot. The procedure fixed a patient’s irregular heart rhythm, and although the doctor was in the same hospital as the patient — just through the wall in another room — developers of the RC surgery technology believe this is the first step toward long-distance operations. Imagine a doctor in London performing surgery on your heart in New York!”

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Apple hires video game journalist to pick iPhone games | VentureBeat.

Apple is bringing on Matt Casamassina, an editor at News Corp.-owned video-game website IGN, to spearhead editorial content for iPhone and iPad games on the App Store. He announced the move on Thursday via a recent blog post.

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THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.

via Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking – Times Online.

Survive The Apocalypse In Luxury For Just $50,000 – The Consumerist.

Forget that musty fallout shelter your grandfather dug in the backyard. If you want to make it through the next zombie attack, earthquake or nuclear war in style, just write a check to Vivos, a California company that’s trying to build a network of swank shelters across the country. For $50K and up, you’ll get an underground home “designed to withstand a 50 megaton blast within 10 miles, a series of force 10 earthquakes, 450 MPH surface winds, a 1,000,000 volt electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and flooding submersion for up to 500 hours.” Of course, you’ll also have to sleep in bunk beds surrounded by 200 of your closest friends, and then deal with survivor’s guilt when you resurface after a year and learn that your less fortunate neighbors have already been eaten by the alien lizard people.

Apple surpasses Microsoft’s market cap — sort-of | Business Center | MacUser | Macworld.

Apple has surpassed Microsoft’s market capitalization on Standard & Poor’s S&P 500 index, a move that makes Apple the second-largest company on that index behind only to energy giant Exxon Mobil—or so claims an article published today on the Marketwatch.com Website.

X-37B unmanned space shuttle to be launched tonight | Mail Online.

It looks like the space shuttle’s more diminutive cousin – but experts say it was created with technology from a generation beyond.

The U.S. military is poised to launch the mysterious X-37B unmanned winged spacecraft tonight – but what America plans to do with it there is anyone’s guess.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1268138/X-37B-unmanned-space-shuttle-launched-tonight.html#ixzz0lrwGD4dd

Online University Cracks Down On Rowdy Online Fraternity | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Capella University, one of the nation’s most heavily trafficked institutions of online learning, issued a stern disciplinary e-mail message to the members of the disorderly Alpha Sigma Sigma online fraternity Monday.

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“Alpha Sigma Sigma has not only broken the rules included in each distance learner’s Online Application User Agreement, but they have also continually thwarted our efforts to create a serious online-learning community and an inclusive e-campus,” Capella Dean of Students Theodore Albertson said. “This rowdy fraternity has been a thorn in the school’s side for years, and frankly, we’ve had enough.”