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IBM's Watson Gets a Job
(Newser) - Looks like Watson’s Jeopardy appearance was the ticket to a high-profile job. As the health field goes increasingly digital, health insurer WellPoint is teaming up with IBM to use the technology in medical settings. Watson will ultimately help doctors with diagnoses and treatment suggestions, the Wall Street Journal reports.... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, .
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Latest Amazon Brainchild: Netflix for Books
(Newser) - Amazon is chatting with publishers about starting a subscription-based digital book library—but publishers are reluctant to jump on the bandwagon. Under the Netflix-like proposal, consumers would pay a yearly fee to get access to the library, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . Publishers, however, are concerned that such a... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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No More Cigarettes for Smoking Orangutan
(Newser) - A chain-smoking orangutan who achieved notoriety when she became a symbol of Malaysia's horrid zoo conditions has been forced to quit her tobacco habit, reports the AP . The 20-year-old orangutan, Shirley, would smoke lit cigarettes thrown to her by zoo visitors. But now Malaysian wildlife officials have removed her... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Delighted to Meet You, Glow-in-the-Dark Kitties
(Newser) - Me-WOW. Some cats are glowing, thanks to researchers at Mayo Clinic, who inserted rhesus macaque plus jellyfish genes into unfertilized cat eggs. The mix makes resulting kittens apparently resistant to feline immunodeficiency virus, which causes feline AIDS. Oh, yeah, and it also makes them glow under special lights. It's... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Woman Dies Hours After Injecting Beef Fat Into Face
(Newser) - Add this to the list of really awful ways to go: An Illinois woman injected heated beef fat into her face Thursday, and died shortly thereafter. Janet Hardt, 63, had done it several times before, says a source, but after injecting the substance around her mouth and chin this time,... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Get Ready for Grateful Dead Skateboards
(Newser) - The Dead are looking for new ways to live on, and they’ve settled on skateboards. In a new business deal, remaining members of the Grateful Dead have agreed to put their logos on a range of new items, including Wines That Rock, Dregs skateboards, and Burton snowboards. But they’... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Ben & Jerry's Actually Making Schweddy Balls
(Newser) - It seemed like it had to be a joke , but it turns out it's just based on one: Ben & Jerry's is indeed making a flavor in tribute to Alec Baldwin's raunchy "Schweddy Balls" skit on SNL, reports NPR, which was itself skewered for its famously... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Coral Reefs Gone by Century's End
(Newser) - Climate change and the acidification of the oceans—along with overfishing, coastal development, and pollution—will destroy the Earth's coral reefs in as little as 30 years, reports the Independent . The mass-bleaching in the Indian Ocean in 1998 alone destroyed 16% of the world's reefs in just a... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Video Games Score Vast Subsidies
(Newser) - By combining tax breaks, deductions, and subsidies designed for the Cold War, video game production is now one of the most highly subsidized businesses in the United States, reports the New York Times . Leading software developer Electronic Arts, for example, has made $1.2 billion in profits worldwide over the... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 12, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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